{"id":160522,"date":"2023-03-17T16:30:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T21:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/low-cost-device-can-measure-air-pollution-anywhere"},"modified":"2023-03-17T16:30:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T21:30:43","slug":"low-cost-device-can-measure-air-pollution-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/low-cost-device-can-measure-air-pollution-anywhere","title":{"rendered":"Low-cost device can measure air pollution anywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/low-cost-device-can-measure-air-pollution-anywhere2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal is for community groups or individual citizens anywhere to be able to measure local air pollution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As per an estimation by WHO, air pollution causes around 4 million annual premature deaths all over the globe. Considering this issue, an MIT research team launched an open-source version of an economical, mobile pollution detector through which individuals can track the air-quality more broadly.<\/p>\n<p>The detector, named Flatburn, can be fabricated through 3D printing or by ordering cheap parts. The researchers have now conducted tests and calibrated the detector concerning existing ultra-modern machines and are making people aware of how to assemble, use, and interpret the data.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Flatburn is an open-source, mobile pollution detector from the MIT Senseable City Lab intended to let people measure air quality cheaply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe goal is for community groups or individual citizens anywhere to be able to measure local air pollution.\u201d As per an estimation by WHO, air pollution causes around 4 million annual premature deaths all over the globe. Considering this issue, an MIT research team launched an open-source version of an economical, mobile pollution detector through [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}