Pollution in certain cities of the world is reaching very dangerous heights for the health of the people who are living in them. We do not have to go very far to find that pollution beret in Madrid itself, which in recent weeks has suffered how harmful polluted air is and what the restrictions are to try to reduce that cloud of pollution that is installed without seeming that it was going to disappear. Although these measures and the last bridge have helped to lighten the color of that beret, until the necessary rain falls to clean it, perhaps we should access the information from the first online world pollution map.
A French startup called Plume Labs, has launched an online website and an app to offer these vitally important data, so that any user can access them and thus even know the day's forecasts. This app is Plume Air Report and it is available for free from the Play Store to be able to know during the day if we can go out to play sports or if it is better to stay at home due to the high pollution. A high pollution where we find pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide as well as many others, which are at home in the air that those who live in cities with large populations usually breathe.
At the same time as the Climate Summit in Paris
This first map of air pollution has arrived precisely in these days where the targets to curb climate change from many countries that have an unmissable appointment at the Climate Summit in Paris.
This software is available from the web, Android and iOS version in order to access the pollution data from more than 11.000 stations monitoring around the world. Apart from providing these extremely important data, it also offers estimates of pollution levels for certain periods of time of one hour in more than 200 cities. This will allow us to know if we can schedule an afternoon outing to do our daily exercise or if it is good to give the young child the walk at certain times of the day.
The goal of the app, according to its founder Romain Lacombe, is provide adequate data so that anyone living in a highly polluted city can decide whether to go outside or stay at home. Above all, as happened in the past weeks in Madrid, where that beret stayed installed for days offering a panorama, as you could say, very black.
An app to make decisions
It is the application itself that advises us what kind of activities can be done depending on the pollution in the air such as:
- outdoor sports
- Cycling
- Dating young children
- Eat outside
The data offered from the concept map is divided into five states quality:
- Fresh air, as the ideal for sports activities
- Moderate pollution, where the air has some pollution and it is recommended that certain groups of people stay at home
- High pollution, when the air is polluted with what a prolonged exposure can cause health problems
- Very high pollution, an almost extreme level in which the effects are very harmful even in short periods of time when one goes out on the street
- Extreme pollution, critical level with a harmful impact for all types of people
The app also allows access to the annual average air pollution of more than 200 cities among which are, in our country, Madrid and Barcelona. The air quality and the main pollutants such as the aforementioned NO2, SO2, CO and many others are evaluated.
In what is the Android app itself, we have on the main screen at air quality meter and what is the level of pollution of the day in which we can slide through its hours to know exactly it. As the air quality changes, they will appear in different colors, at the bottom, the different activities such as physical exercise and others.
From two swipes, we can access the left side panel where add new cities to bookmark and access your data instantly, and what would be the profile, where we can modify the sensitivity to pollution, favorite activities or what are the notifications for pollution alerts.
Una perfect app for those who live in big cities and these days they are facing a great pollution as is happening in Madrid. You have access to the online world pollution map from the web.
