Air pollution is recognized by the World Health Organization as the world's single largest
environmental and human health threat. In Airscapes Singapore, crowd-sourced environmental data
from a network of sensors is augmented to provide personalized air pollution exposure metrics.
People are able to see how their urban experiences may impact their exposure in real-time. Citizens
may therefore change their behaviour to minimize their exposure and the impacts of air pollution on their health.
A team of student engineers and scientists have been recruited to carry wireless environmental sensors at an urban area
in Singapore from the 2nd to the 10th April 2015. In daily controlled trials, the participants are able to contribute
to and access real-time maps of environmental conditions. This website displays the latest data collected from the
sensor network.
Detailed real-time air quality maps allow people to make informed decisions about their daily lifestyle and mobility patterns.
The information collected may also help cities take action in designing responsive air pollution intervention strategies
for the protection and improvement of human health. In combination, these efforts may help decrease the number of people
being exposed to air pollution levels in excess of the World Health Organization recommended levels.
Please note: As the data displayed is based on 20 second averages, it is prone to fluctuations and as it is live data,
it also requires further validation.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology
Prof. Carlo Ratti
Director, SENSEable City Lab / MIT Investigator, Future Urban Mobility
Prof. Steven Barrett
MIT Investigator, Centre for Environmental Sensing and Monitoring
Prof. Rex Britter
MIT Investigator, Centre for Environmental Sensing and Monitoring
Prof. Leslie Norford
MIT Investigator, Centre for Environmental Sensing and Monitoring
Marguerite Nyhan
Project Lead and Environmental Epidemiologist
Martina Maitan
Interaction Designer
Riki Pribadi
Frontend Engineer
Muhammad Khairul
Interaction Designer
Ramprasad Sivaprakasam
Backend Engineer
University of Zagreb
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
Prof. Vedran Bilas
Principle Investigator, Department of Electronic Systems and Information Processing
Prof. Ivana Podnar-Zarko
Principle Investigator, Department of Telecommunications
Dinko Oletic
Electronic Engineer
Aleksandar Antonic
Cloud and Data Infrastructure Specialist
