Project Usiru

The Largest Crowd Sourced Clean Air Project

Democratise Data

A Data-driven culture enables innovation and empowerment. Usiru builds on an Open Data system where the Environmental and Air Quality data is acquired from all citizens.

This data from the people is made available for the people.

Community Participation

Usiru envisages deep and active engagement with the community for its service. To do so, it provides tools and methods for people's participation.

For acquiring data, it offers means to use economical, calibrated sensors and systems built for the Indian environment

Use this short URL for Usiru Website bit.ly/UsiruBLR

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From January 1 to 20 the images show higher levels of nitrogen dioxide over China, but from February 10 to 25, traces of the gas are hardly visible. Nitrogen dioxide is a yellow-brown gas emitted by motor vehicles, power plants, and industrial facilities. It can cause respiratory problems like coughing, asthma, and difficulty breathing. Ola will mount sensors on its vehicles to gather data on air quality in Delhi-NCR. Ola Mobility Institute and Microsoft Research will conduct joint research and make the data publicly available to researchers and policy-makers.With rising concerns about the steep increase in air pollution in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, several factors—particularly motorised transportation, construction, and stubble burning in neighbouring states—are being identified as contributing to this hazard. However, in order to make effective policy decisions, there is a need for a holistic approach that identifies the root causes of the problem. The use of system dynamics simulation offers a novel systems thinking approach to understand Delhi’s air pollution, taking into account the dynamic nature of the air pollution system as well as the complex interdependencies among the various factors and sources of air pollution. Breezo Data against Air Pollution
The 3rd meeting of India CEO forum on hashtag#AirPollution was held on 17 December 2019 in New Delhi. At this meeting, Dr. Arvind Kumar (chest surgeon at Gangaram Hospital) and Dr. Sachchida Tripathi (Head, Dept. of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur) shared the latest scientific evidence on health impacts and sources of air pollution. The 60-km Outer Ring Road (ORR), a lifeline for Bengaluru’s commuters, is the most-polluted stretch in the city when it comes to air quality, a study has revealed. Experts attribute this to the huge volume of vehicular traffic the thoroughfare sees on a daily basisAir pollution - specifically PM2.5 and PM10 - reduces by 65% and 28%, respectively, with Pure Skies at a distance of 2 km away, finds a study by SIMA Labs, an independent 3rd party testing body. thanks to a small, optical nano-sensor developed at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, which can be mounted onto an ordinary streetlight. It’s only in the last few years that low-cost AQMs have come into the market. They can be easily installed and the readings can be accessed and analysed from anywhere
Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Making Polluters Pay The measures are designed to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by 1,450 tonnes per year and will be available in over 60 municipalities where national limits for the emissions were exceeded in 2017.
 The government has started funding 102 cities, with 28 million million-plus cities among them, getting Rs 10 crore each for
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In India, air pollution was responsible for the equivalent of USD 505,103 million welfare losses in the year 2013, which is about 7.69 percent of the GDP that includes a USD 55,390 million equivalent of total forgone labor output.

Democratising and releasing data on the sources of pollution provides a real opportunity to move beyond the typical regime of top-down regulation.

Local certification would help bring down costs and improve the measurement of air pollution and help scrutinize it. Govt asks the grossly polluting industries to submit real time data to the CPCB, which then evaluates whether a firm is complying with regulatory norms
Air purifiers are being sold as health devices. But do they work?