Smart & sustainable cities applications
Air quality monitoring in cities
Know the quality of the air your citizens breathe with accurate street-by-street data.
More than 50% of the world’s population lives and works in urban areas. At Airscan we believe that clean air is a fundamental human right. Therefore protecting the health of citizens is an essential responsibility of any government. In order to make the right decisions and develop effective environmental policies reliable real-time data is necessary.
Benefits of urban air quality monitoring:
- Take actions to improve the quality of life and health of its citizens.
- Reduce the carbon footprint of your city
- Protect health and thus reduce healthcare costs.
- Increase environmental awareness among residents.
- Promote new forms of sustainable mobility.
- Increase your city’s attractiveness to tourists.
- Enhance your city’s ability to attract talent, innovation and investment.
Applications in cities:
- Roadside traffic & mobility.
- Low Emission Zone (LEZ) deployments.
- New traffic circulation plans
- Reliable and accurate pollution monitoring.
- Real-time data at a hyper-local scale.
- Complement the measurements from official reference stations.
- Detection of pollution hotspots.
- Identification of pollution-emitting sources.
- Prevent pollution episodes by alerting when thresholds are exceeded.