Air quality Egg
An open-source hardware initiative for crowdsourcing environmental pollutant data.
Co-creator, hardware and software prototyping, web app dev
ROLE
Arduino, Environmental Sensors (Temp, Humidity, CO, CO2, NO2, PM2.5, and more), HTML + Javascript, IoT APIs
TECH
Ed Borden, Pachube/Xively, WickedDevices
TEAM
LINKS
FastCompany, Gizmodo, WiredUK, Citizen Sense, and more
PRESS
AQE is an Internet of Things platform and DIY device for crowdsourced citizen monitoring of airborne pollutants including CO, CO2, NO2, Particulate matter and more. The project began as a collaboration with Xively (formerly Pachube, acq’d by Google) community leader Ed Borden and myself.
The project’s technology was initially developed from the hardware, sensor, and data architecture that I developed for my Master’s thesis, CitizenSensor.
We launched the AQE Kickstarter in 2012 and raised over $144K in pledges. It was named one of the best projects on Kickstarter that year and has been featured in a variety of media outlets. Data from each device was streamed to Xively, and many community contributed applications were developed on top of the real-time dataset.
Shortly after the Kickstarter campaign concluded, WickedDevice, a hardware and product startup based in Ithaca, NY took over the project and continues it to this day.
Over the following years, I gave talks and workshops on DIY citizen science and open-source hardware & sensor development around the US and EU.