The AQ Dashboard

Someday soon, your air quality dashboard will give you up to the minute air quality information for your neighborhood, not from a sensor in the next county over.

Want to see how the air quality is wherever you’re traveling for the day? We can help you with that as well. That’s the power of open access data. Yeah, we do that. Check out these examples and don’t be afraid to get involved or bookmark!

This links to the EPA’s Air sensing network. This is the sensor network that governs industry, I.E. the best that we’ve got. Do you have a sensor near you? What do you think about it’s accuracy? This network is primarily set up to protect us, the public.

This links to the purple air network. Sensors are about $200 USD and provide particulate matter data. This all started because I put one up in my backyard!

This links to QuantAQ’s public facing network. Sensors range from $2000 - $7000 USD and provide data on PM and gases regulated by the EPA through what are called Title V Operating Permits.

^ This right here is the EPA AQI. The Environmental Protection Agency assigned numbers and colors to different concentrations of particulate matter 2.5 microns and below (tiny stuff we all breathe) and we call it the air quality index or AQI for short.

VV This down here is a pretty darn good video if you’re into YouTube videos.VV

Pretty easy to see which stack is more or less opaque, right? This is called a method nine inspection (Here’s a cool video on EPA METHOD 9) - sometimes the EPA trains citizens in method nine so you can keep your neighborhood safe, now you have something to do on your drive home! Reach out if you’d like to be trained, we’ll try to help you do that. We’re not afraid of making phone calls.