Portsmouth Public Schools
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Air Quest: How Portsmouth Schools Are Using Real-World Environmental Data to Inspire the Next Generation

What happens when students are given access to real environmental data from their own community - and the tools to understand it? That is exactly the idea behind the Air Quest programme in Portsmouth, Virginia: an innovative educational initiative…
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Strengthening Environmental Justice in Cities: How Air Quality Sensors Enable Data-Driven Decisions

Environmental justice begins with visibility. While many cities today acknowledge that environmental burdens are distributed unevenly across the urban area, they often lack the local data needed to concretely demonstrate disparities between…
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Why environmental data are the ultimate hackathon dataset for smart cities

Hackathons thrive on one key ingredient: meaningful, versatile, and accessible data. When cities or communities host hackathons, the choice of datasets they provide can make or break the quality and impact of the solutions developed. Among all…
Environmental Intelligence Cloud - Advanced Analytics for air quality and other environmental datasets.
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From environmental data to environmental action – the Environmental Intelligence Cloud 2026

The air in our cities is invisible – yet it affects the health and well-being of their inhabitants every day. In recent years, cities and municipalities around the world have therefore invested heavily in sensors, measuring stations, and digital…
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…
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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…
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…
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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…
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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…