• Augmenting Air Quality Monitoring Networks

As a solution, Polludrone is a fully solar-powered, low-cost, ambient air quality monitor. It fits into existing infrastructure (retrofit) and does not occupy any space or manpower. The Oizom Terminal is a cloud analytics software that arms a user with several key abilities like real-time air quality data modeling and analytics, automated reports, smart notifications, real-time pollution mapping, air-quality predictions, and Pollution Source Finding. The Oizom mobile app shows location-based air pollution levels, with data-driven suggestive actions for users.

Air owl is a community project by Oizom, in association with India Open Data Association. An open-source project to create awareness about air quality amongst citizens, it is a D-I-Y kit that anybody above ten years of age can assemble, which helps them build their own personal air quality monitoring device.

The device would give you real-time air quality data on the app they have built, the Air Quality India App, and update you about the air that you are breathing.  Air Quality India App, on the other hand, that first relied on open-source data for information, will now collate air quality data from all across the nation where Oizom devices are installed. It also fetches data from other open devices, i.e. monitoring stations from the central and state pollution control boards. The app has seen more than 5,000 installs on Android and IoS. Polludrone targets smart city execution companies like PwC, Wipro, E-smart Technologies and the Tata Group. They plan to acquire customers through joint ventures with these companies, apart from the industrial sector through the pollution control board, industrial association board and direct marketing. “With rapid urbanization, there is a dire need for city-level infrastructure to facilitate air quality monitoring, in order to take data-driven decisions and create policy-level changes for a sustainable ecosystem