Gaining clarity into low-cost sensors
Co-Authors: Kate Lewis, Libby Koolik, Julia Luongo, and Drew Hill Low cost sensor-based monitors can provide insight into fluctuations in air quality at a local scale. The reliability and utility of these insights, however, can vary substantially between sensor makes,...
Street View Modeling: What Does it Tell Us About the Future of Air Quality Monitoring?
Background Air pollution is a major cause of ill-health and death worldwide, accounting for approximately 5 million deaths every year — roughly 10% of all global deaths (IHME, 2019). Despite the tendency of air pollution concentrations to vary sharply over short...
Shair team members contribute to a piece on Molekule’s blog about the utility and limitations of consumer air quality sensors
Photo by Robin Glauser on Unsplash Air pollution affects everyone. Increasingly, people are using low-cost air quality sensors to measure this microscopic phenomenon. Can you trust the readings? The answer holds real-life implications, especially when it comes...Introducing Shairstreet
Traffic pollution is known to have a greater impact in urban areas where vehicle congestion and the resulting exhaust emissions from motor vehicles are high. In these areas where street canyons exist (buildings flanking the sides of a street), air pollution can be...