air quality sensors

By  Dave Muoio 01:31 pm September 13, 2018
Google Street Breathe? San Francisco-based startup Aclima has announced plans to outfit Google’s fleet of camera-sporting Street View vehicles with mobile air quality and climate emissions sensors. According to the company, all of the data collected using the new system will be aggregated and made available as a public dataset on Google BigQuery. The companies are planning an initial rollout of...
By  Aditi Pai 09:36 am July 15, 2014
Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have developed a smartphone-connected tool that can sense dust levels, which can be an important metric for some public health issues. When tested, the technology showed a good initial performance, but a paper describing the research explains that future iterations of the tool will offer increased sensitivity so that the device can detect...