Local Government
Local government has been at the heart of air quality monitoring and action to improve air in the UK for decades. Regulatory monitoring has and will continue to be the cornerstone of compliance assessment and public information. But as budgets have been squeezed, Councils’ ability to install new monitoring stations has been constrained.
As the health impacts of poor air have become clearer in recent years however, demand has grown from community groups and residents to monitor and take action at schools, playgrounds and routes to school across boroughs.
The Breathe London Communities Node provides a trusted, affordable, easy to deploy, all-in-one solution to increase coverage across your borough and respond to communities and residents quickly and at scale.
Every Breathe London Communities Node is co-located at London Air reference sites and checked by researchers at Imperial before deployment. Once deployed, the data is continually cross-checked and scaled against reference sites on the London Network in real-time to ensure the data from every sensor is as good as it can be.
The Environmental Research Group has worked hand-in-hand with the boroughs of London monitoring air quality for over 30 years. We’re incredibly excited to continue our partnership as we build this new network into the best hybrid air quality monitoring network in the world.
