As Hurricane Harvey barreled into Houston, the state shut down 50
stationary air quality monitors that track pollution levels to protect the sensitive devices from the high winds and torrential rains that swamped the region.
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.