Rickshaws & Pigeons - Monitoring Air Pollution

Delhi has i of the worst air pollution records inward the world. London has the worst air pollution tape inward Europe. Both cities soundless are developing interesting ways to monitor close real-time air pollution.

In Delhi Project Peppered Moth has equipped 5 machine rickshaws alongside cyberspace connected air pollution sensors. These sensors stair out air pollution every xxx seconds equally they navigate unopen to the city. The Project Peppered Moth website includes an interactive map which allows you lot to explore the readings from whatever of the rickshaws for whatever of the days that they produce got been inward action.

The map shows color-coded markers for each reading taken yesteryear the sensors. I assume greenish markers betoken lower readings together with blood-red markers demo higher readings.

London doesn't produce got equally many machine rickshaws equally Delhi simply it does produce got thousands of pigeons. Pigeon Air Patrol has developed tiny backpacks fitted alongside air pollution sensors. It has equally good establish a publish of pigeons who produce got agreed to article of apparel the backpacks on their daily commute unopen to London.

The Pigeon Air Patrol website equally good includes an interactive map which presents the pigeons' tracks together with the air pollution readings that the pigeons collected for what I assume was a exam run. If you lot click on whatever of the markers on the you lot tin sack read a summary of the air pollution degree (although they all look to tell 'moderate pollution').

Now all nosotros necessitate is for both cities to position equally much imagination into lowering air pollution equally they are into monitoring it.