London put pigeons in to luchvervuiling to measure

Posted on 15-03-2016 at 20:57 by Dizono – 17 Comments”

*Looks at calendar* not even 1 of april, so then it will be real.

Since car manufacturers currently conceived seem to have that fri night the 14th of march is not the ideal moment to make new models to leak, we have time for an old-fashioned portion of Waku Waku. Side of car related of course, because these winged friends must be in the map, where in London the air pollution (read: emissions) the most. A dozen doves were yesterday by Plume Labs equipped with a backpack with GPS and luchtkwaliteitssensor.

Although the birds are primarily meant as a publicity stunt, you can use a card, definitely check out how clean the air is where the birds fly through it. The startup is currently working with a crowdfundingcampagne to these small instruments to the man to bring to everywhere the air quality in the picture. To the man (or woman) and not the pigeon, the idea is that a whole network of local sensors can better the current air pollution in the picture than the fixed measuring points that are currently used.

London is struggling with the huge smog problems where the air quality is sometimes worse than that in Beijing. On Groen7.nl there is often attention to the plans of the British capital to emissions reduction. Think of motorways for cyclists, stekkertaxi’s and busses on biodiesel and electricity.