Smability carried out an exhaustive monitoring of PM2.5 exposure in the city of La Paz, BCS, Mexico during the months of October to December 2019 and January 2020. The monitoring focused on the collection, analysis and evaluation of data for the Automobile, Public Transport, Bicycle and Walking as transportation modes....
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Smability
Smability www.smability.io, a start up founded in 2017, develops solutions that allow real-time monitoring of pollutant concentrations, with a high level of hyper resolution, at pedestrian level or street by street resolution. More recently Sambility has worked for organizations such as Greenpeace, the German Cooperation GIZ, the Government of Mexico...
Air Quality in Cities
Ensuring clean air is one of the most important assignments for any government. In Mexico, the NOM-156-SEMARNAT-2012 regulation mandates that all cities that have more than half a million inhabitants, or that have a certain industrial and / or automobile activities, must monitor the concentration of emissions to the atmosphere...
What is the PM2.5?
PM2.5 refers to atmospheric particulate matter (PM µg/m3), which has a diameter of less than 2.5 microns, equivalent to approximately 3% of the diameter of a human hair. The particles are so small that they are commonly only measurable through electron microscopes. These fine particles come from a variety of...