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Jul 30, 2015
8:00:13am
Google has added air quality sensors to the street view cars...
Kind of an interesting addition. I wonder how many readings they'll use... A single reading won't be entirely accurate for some areas during winter inversions. But the street-by-street approach to urban design has some merit IMO.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/28/software-eats-smog/?ncid=rss#.if3ihb:w7jt

“We designed our cities without data,” Aclima founder Davida Herzl tells me. Literally piggybacking on Google could let Aclima produce the data necessary to make urban areas easier on the lungs.

In the first pilot, three Street View cars collected 150 million air quality data points over a month of driving around Denver, Colo. They measured for chemicals that are hazardous to breathe, like nitrogen dioxide, nitric oxide, ozone, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, black carbon, particulate matter, and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs).
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.The first project it announced was using indoor sensors to help Google measure air quality in its offices to optimize productivity.

For example, by tracking conference rooms throughout the day, Google could determine if CO2 levels climbed high enough to degrade brain function. If you’ve ever felt suffocated in a cramped meeting, you’re not crazy. With productivity of its huge elite workforce translating into billions in earned or lost revenue for Google, it has plenty of incentive to join up with Aclima.


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