The Air Quality Index reflects the density of five pollutants ... fire and smoke maps that are informed by data from portable sensors that are deployed to track smoke plumes.

Such air quality sensor platforms have been getting more and more popular, and hackers have been paying attention. Having a full open-source package like this at our disposal is amazing.

[Andrew Lamchenko], who has built a number of small e-ink-based sensors this year, released another design called the eON Indoor Air Quality Sensor. As his previous sensor designs, the eON boasts ...

Currently, levels of ground level ozone are recorded at monitoring stations run by agencies such as the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) that are fairly far apart. The goal of the ...

The map pulls data from air monitors, hundreds of pollution sensors, and forecast models to provide real-time air quality index (AQI) readings for more than 1,000 locations. Los Angeles’ air ...