Germany-Based Startup Breeze is Using AI to Measure and Improve Air Quality

Microsoft has announced its support towards a German startup named Breeze for developing AI-based solutions for improving the air quality as part of their AI for Earth initiative.

Breeze Technologies is a company that develops air quality sensors for efficiently measuring air quality. These sensors can be installed in any place to measure the pollutants in the air which may include nitrogen oxides, ammonia, ozone or particulate matter.

Rather than but measuring the data, the visitor besides has a citizen portal for making people enlightened of their surrounding air quality. "Cities usually merely maintain few air quality monitoring stations. The collected data therefore does non accept the necessary relevance for most citizens. Our denizen portal for air quality data provides comprehensive and hyperlocal air quality data and is a one-cease shop for interested citizens," reads their website.

For processing huge chunks of data, the company has been making use of Azure cloud. The founder of Breeze Robert Heinecke has plans to incorporate AI to increase the efficiency of their solutions and this is where Microsoft comes into the picture.

The blog mail service past Microsoft claims that Cakewalk has already received $12,000 in cloud credits for setting upward an ML dev environs in Azure. "We have now set our own AI experimental laboratory to test how AI tin can back up u.s.a. even amend in our added value," said Mr. Heinecke in the post.

AI will exist implemented for improving the accuracy of the measurement data and will help collect accurate details past measuring the anomalies caused past errors in the devices. External ecology influences will be taken into consideration every bit well. AI will also be used to make up one's mind when the sensors have to get replaced or repaired.

Too, AI volition assistance to make accurate predictions if the air quality is about to undergo a significant increase by linking conditions data to the data from measuring stations so that people who are allergic to polluted air will get some time to either prepare for the climate or stay out of the metropolis for a while.

"The mills of the administration grind slowly. Some cities may too prefer not to know exactly how bad the air really is, because then they would have to act," said Heinecke which shows the ignorant nature of the regime towards a critical issue like air pollution.