Air pollution is a major problem for public health. Actually, outdoor air pollution kills 3.3 million people, mostly in cities, every year . That’s more than HIV, malaria and influenza combined. The consequences of the air pollution in urban scenarios are estimated to cost approximately 2% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in developed countries and 5% in developing countries. The problem is only increasing with the unprecedented population growth in cities.
Cities across the world are increasingly adopting smart solutions to achieve better living standards, increased efficiency, economic stability, optimization of energy, and higher environmental protection based on the technologies: IoT, cloud, mobile, and sensors. However, in the Internet of Things (IoT) era there is no a reliable commercial technology that permits understanding and mitigating air pollution in cities. In response to this unquestionable necessity, the novel and European Bettair technology developed by Ateknea has been created to monitor pollution in urban scenarios at an affordable price. The platform permits, for the first time, to map air and noise pollution in cities on a previously unimaginable scale based on a large-scale deployment of outstandingly accurate gas sensors by using an advanced post-processing algorithm. This information allows applying appropriate urban plans for enhancing air quality and to make smart and better decisions to mitigate air pollution.