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0 pointsmdorazio6y ago0 comments

I think he means a much more granular pollution map than what's available at the city level. Something like being able to get accurate pollution data at sub-kilometer precision, especially in suburb areas where monitoring stations tend to be sparse.

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lisiado6y ago· 2 in thread

There is a project in Germany which collects the data of stations you can build yourself with an esp8266 and a sensor. https://luftdaten.info/

hawski6y ago

Thanks for the link.

Users outside of Germany already use it. I think I will participate. For some time I was thinking about an amateur network of air pollution sensors, that seems to be it. Is there something with more reach in Europe or at least Poland (where I'm at)?

lisiado6y ago

Yes I just realized that it's already in use outside of Germany as I visited the website. I will set it up myself as well.

0ld6y ago

When there are big air pollution problems, people and municipalities usually install their own monitors.

Say, I live in a region with a very bad air quality in winter, and in the vicinity of my house there're at least 4 devices I can (and do) check - 2 from airly.eu (within 200m, installed by the village) and 2 from luftdaten.info (within ~1km, installed by the locals) and one mine

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