But as more people volunteer and
more air quality monitors are hitching rides on bikes and strollers around the city, the coverage should fill out.
Not exact matches
It's a system designed to help property management companies and businesses generally
monitor and optimize the temperature,
air quality, humidity, noise, lighting and
more in their facilities.
Using data from
air quality monitoring stations, the researchers determined that mosses could be used as indicators of
air pollution and allow a
more comprehensive method for tracking potential problems in local
air quality.
Released last week, the initial budget outline envisions dramatic cuts in funds for
monitoring air and water
quality, climate change and
more.
It would help scientists better understand clouds and carbon dioxide exchange between ocean and
air,
monitor air quality, improve forecasts for harmful algal blooms, and
more.
Recent technological advances in
air quality measurement methods now make it possible and practical to
monitor air pollution in a much
more sophisticated way than before, Peltier says.
«The real issue is that councils need
more powers to switch their focus from simply
monitoring to devising solutions to tackle poor
air quality.
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While not perfect, this approach has the potential to paint a much
more precise and useful picture of
air quality across the area (and in cities around the world, where the same approach could also be used — for example, there's a similar project in operation in Pittsburgh called GASP, or Group Against Smog and Pollution, pictured above), rather than having just a few stationary
air monitoring stations, as is currently the case in most places.
The collected data will then be added to that of other users, essentially joining them together into an effective
air quality network that could cover much
more ground than existing
air monitoring systems do.
Johnson Controls is providing an accompanying smart GLAS thermostat app that allows users to set temperatures,
monitor air quality and
more from their iOS and Google mobile devices.
It's
more expensive than the Canary All - In - One ($ 130), which also
monitors air quality, and having to connect the Spotcam to other smart - home devices using IFTTT makes the process
more cumbersome than it should be.