Street map of truck-mounted sensor Google air dirty

(Google) cars are not just roads, is about to collect urban air condition. Google has announced the collaboration with San Francisco startups Aclima, an air quality sensor is installed on the cars, and patrolled around to collect air pollution information in the city, so as to produce air pollution maps, Internet access will be able to have people aware of ambient pollution situation and the Government's greening policy reference.

Since 2007 after the launch Google Street view, available to people throughout the world with 360-degree panoramic view, view street view images, so that people no longer only Planar map, find their way and can match the actual street view locations, even adding scenic and underwater world image in recent years. Technology news site TechCrunch reported next want to take advantage of Google Street car, making global air pollution map, hoping to become the basis for improving urban air quality.

Google and Aclima, and United States national environmental protection Council (EPA), and space Department cooperation, will Aclima specifically production of air quality sensor loaded in street car Shang everywhere patrol, to collection on human harmful of gas, including carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide, and a oxidation nitrogen, and II oxidation nitrogen, and ozone, and methane, and carbon black, and particles material and the volatile sex organic compounds, pollutants data, provides to Aclima of research personnel analysis.

The project currently in progress in Denver, Colorado, for some time, 750 hours of patrol time, collected 150 million air monitoring data. "We hope the air pollution information in the future, could easily make like a weather forecast. "Aclima CEO He Zier said, people can easily understand the living environment of surrounding air, with the Government considering data, regional green or improve the air pollution caused by traffic congestion.

EPA Research Director Ke Sida, said street view vehicles mobile air monitoring methods, you can make up for a lack of official fixed stations, can help Governments to understand the local situation with air pollution in the community, as well as the spread of pollution in the urban areas. Think of the TechCrunch, Google maps will commence production of air not only a variety of research, and even can be combined with the original Google maps navigation service, guiding drivers to avoid polluting route.

Before the fact, Google has worked with Aclima, installed in the Office of air quality sensors to monitor indoor concentrations of carbon dioxide, because if a confined space because of poor air quality, and can cause choking, and employee productivity. The further cooperation, is walking from indoor to outdoor, and all aspects of data collection for the public domain, and hope to give people a better quality of life.