All of our projects revolve around improving air quality and empowering the community to engage with the issue of air pollution. We have said from day 1 that access to air quality data is key to creating the change we want to see. Camden has 6 reference stations, providing real-time, highly accurate data, spread across the Borough. There are also over 200 diffusion tubes providing density but not real-time data. For this reason, we set out to increase the number of real-time sensors across the Borough, in order to provide the members of our community with accurate and hyper local air quality data.
To achieve this, we partnered with AirLabs to create an open access monitoring network and Camden Council who provided access to lighting columns and technical support. The network contains 229 real-time air quality sensors that are approximately 200 metres apart. This is the densest network in the world and will fundamentally transform how we monitor and manage air pollution to improve health and well-being in urban spaces.
Following a Community launch and Public launch, airscape.ai is live and free to use. The role of Camden Clean Air is now to run workshops within the community to increase engagement with the data and understanding on how to use this to create behavioural change.
