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This is an article from envirosuite describing a recent bill passed in California. According to the article

"The bill specifically requires use of new air pollution monitoring technologies and emerging low-cost sensor technologies to be deployed real-time monitoring of air quality in the community"

Based on commentary from the company and the fact the scaqmd are currently using envirosuite to visualise the data from these low cost senosors, this could be a significant moment.


More below.

What aspects of AB 617 can Envirosuite help with?
Specifically, AB 617 aims to establish a new community-scale emissions abatement program by:

• making use of new air pollution monitoring technologies capable of detecting elevated exposures at a much more granular scale than the conventional ambient air quality monitors;
• taking advantage of the opportunity presented by emerging low-cost sensor technologies to detect elevated pollution exposures,identifying the contributing sources,and providing a catalyst and a platform for community engagement towards eliminating emissions hotspots;
• authorising the deployment of fenceline monitoring or other real-time monitoring around the perimeter of cap-n-trade facilities located in disadvantaged communities;
• monitoring to provide improved knowledge of air quality and potential identification of toxics sources through monitoring; and
• Identifying sources of toxics creating public nuisance subject to remedial action through order for abatement

The language in the bill includes such phrases as ‘the use of advanced sensing monitoring technologies’.

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