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Recently, Airly hosted a webinar on air quality monitoring and its benefits based on real-life examples. As projections for the future see the AQ sensor market expanding significantly, shareholders and decision-makers need to know why this investment pays off. The panel covered that and more!
Watch the webinar recording here >
Table of Contents
- Looking Ahead: How Air Quality Solutions Shape the Future of Smart Cities
- Connection Between AQ Monitoring and New Revenue Streams
- Implementing Air Quality Solutions for Long-Term Compliance
Key points
- Holistic Smart Planning: The future of air quality management is not a standalone effort; it relies on combining environmental data with municipal and private enterprise information for better city design.
- Proactive Traffic Management: Real-time AQ data allows for dynamic traffic reorganization, including adjusting speed limits and traffic light patterns to reduce emission spikes.
- Economic “Internalization”: Clean air is an economic asset that directly impacts the bottom line by preserving workforce health and boosting the financial appeal of local real estate.
- Pre-emptive Compliance: Implementing monitoring solutions early allows cities to “future-proof” their infrastructure against upcoming environmental laws, saving money on emergency course-corrections.
Looking Ahead: How Air Quality Solutions Shape the Future of Smart Cities
Projections estimate that by 2028, the number of air quality sensors installed worldwide will reach 500,000. The future of smart cities certainly looks bright!
However, quantity means nothing without quality—AQ sensors must work with other IoT applications and smart city solutions to produce noteworthy results. So, where does the rest of the smart data come from, and how is it integrated?
To illustrate with an example, let’s take the company’s home base—the city of Kraków, with which Airly is proud to collaborate. The city officials use various sensor data, including from AQ sensors, together with data from the public sector and private enterprises. Then, they visualize and integrate it all to leverage the information into actionable insights.
Some of the smart city achievements in Kraków include:
- Traffic Reorganization: adjusting patterns and speed limits.
- Municipal Management: using heatmaps for better urban planning.
- New Policies Introduction: implementing low emission zones, speed limits, and traffic light adjustments.
- Heat Islands Analysis: identifying and mitigating hot spots.
Connection Between AQ Monitoring and New Revenue Streams
One of Airly’s telecom partners, Telekom Slovenije, reaps the full benefit of Airly’s sensors’ ease of use and versatility. Through the standardization of data in a proprietary app, citizens and stakeholders alike can capitalize on cleaner air by reducing healthcare costs and increasing property value, which are two of the major, tangible links between air quality and economic growth.
As an industry pioneer, Airly offers the knowledge and expertise that make these results possible and reproducible. If you want to see our tech in action, sign up for a POC Kit and enjoy 30-day access to our innovative data platform.
Implementing Air Quality Solutions for Long-Term Compliance
As more environmental guidelines and regulations enter into force, compliance becomes critical. By mapping pollutants like PM2.5 or PM10, reducing their presence, and establishing low-emission zones, smart cities can ensure they pre-emptively meet all requirements, avoiding hefty fines and ramping costs.
Interested in finding out more about Airly’s domain expertise? Watch the webinar recording here, and contact our experts to see how we can work together to repair the air.