AeRate: live air quality map for a small city

[cyberchucktx]

[ Note: I'm not establishing a team for this particular Hackathon, but since this the "Project Ideas" section I thought I'd throw it out. On other projects I'm considering building the air quality sensors they mention for a project in Georgia.]

Statement from the HACKADAY project site @

AeRate: live air quality map for a small city
https://hackaday.io/project/186919-aerate-live-air-quality-map-for-a-small-city

We are implementing a network of wireless low-power air quality sensors to deploy in the city of Magurele, Romania. This will give citizens and authorities live feedback of our collective behaviour's impact on the air we breathe. Live and historic data will be available through a publicly available web interface.

We are building an end-to-end solution for monitoring air quality in Magurele, Romania, in order to make this information publicly available to anyone with a web browser. A secondary goal is to use this as a learning opportunity for students, involving them in the development and long-term operation of the project.

The solution consists of AeRate boxes, communication infrastructure, database, and web application.

[cyberchucktx]

A semi-commercial project for doing Air Quality Monitoring is Purple Air. hey provide worldwide air quality maps provided by citizen scientists installing their sensors around the world (the sensors can be built from scratch or bought premade from them).

Purple Air
https://www2.purpleair.com/

PurpleAir makes sensors that empower Community Scientists who collect hyper-local air quality data and share it with the public.