Planning your air quality projectunsplash.com / Scott Graham
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What to keep in mind when planning and deploying air quality sensors in your community

More and more communities around the world are starting their own air quality monitoring projects, or have already deployed air quality monitoring devices and are actively using the data. We regularly receive requests to discuss potential projects,…
Make air quality data great again
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Make air quality data (access) great again – restoring air quality data access to cities around the globe

Last month, the US state department shut down its nearly 20 year old air quality monitoring program. Up until the beginning of March 2025, 80 US embassies and consulates regularly published air quality data from around the world. For many of…
Breeze Technologies is now a certified social business
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Breeze Technologies is now a certified social business

Hamburg. The Hamburg-based air quality management startup Breeze Technologies has been certified as a social business by The Grameen Creative Lab. "It is a huge honor for our organization to become certified as a social business. This certification…
Urban air quality
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Starter Guide: Air Quality Sensors and Management for Smart Cities

This article is an introduction into the topics of air quality sensors and air quality management for smart cities and is intended to be smart city managers' first point of contact with this topic. In the following, we will provide a basic overview…
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2024 update to Breeze Technologies’ air quality index

At Breeze Technologies, we regularly evaluate our air quality index (AQI) based on recent scientific insights and publications from international institutions such as the World Health Organization (WHO). Our AQI is mainly developed from the…
Communityunsplash.com / Shane Rounce
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Engaging your community on air quality

Air pollution affects everyone, and while in many countries it remains an invisible threat, public awareness about the issue has continued to rise throughout the last decade. Hence many of our urban air quality monitoring projects with cities…
Breeze Technologies selected as Top 100 Next-Generation Company by the World Future AwardsBreeze Technologies
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Breeze Technologies selected as Top 100 Next-Generation Company by the World Future Awards

After being named "best air pollution solution for 2023" by the World Future Awards in April, Breeze Technologies has now been selected as 2023 "Top 100 Next-Generation Company". WFA describes this honour as following: Chosen meticulously,…
IRCAI Top 100 AI Solutions for Sustainable Development - Excellent Project
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Breeze Technologies’ Environmental Intelligence Suite on UNESCO IRCAI’s top 100 list of AI solutions addressing the UN SDGs

Hamburg and Ljubljana. The International Research Centre in Artificial Intelligence under the auspices of UNESCO (IRCAI), has selected Breeze Technologies’ Environmental Intelligence Cloud (EIC) among the 2022-2023 global top 100 artificial…
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WFA selects Breeze Technologies as “Best air pollution solution for 2023”

As a leading provider of air quality monitoring and management solutions, we are thrilled to announce that Breeze Technologies has been named winner of the World Future Awards' category "Best air pollution solutions for 2023". This prestigious…
Easter fires cause air pollutionunsplash.com / Georgiana Avram
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Traditional easter fires and their impact on local air quality

Stemming from pagan and clerical roots, Easter fires (also called Paschal fires) are part of German tradition. They are typically performed around sunset on Holy Saturday or on Easter Sunday. Because there is often a larger amount of these bonfires…
One of Breeze Technologies' Air Quality and Wildfire Sensor installed at the Harz Mountain

Germany’s first AI-based wildfire detection system has been launched in the Harz Mountains

Hamburg and Blankenburg. Today, Germany's first fully automated, air quality-based wildfire detection system has been launched in Blankenburg (Harz). The system is based on an artificial intelligence developed by the Hamburg-based startup Breeze…
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Different types of urban air quality monitoring locations

The 2008/50/EC Directive’s sampling point requirement introduces and examines the main question of when air pollutants should be measured. The Directive further examines different types of urban air quality monitoring locations: where should…