Poverty fosters increased air pollution

Household air pollution is generated by the use of inefficient and polluting fuels and technologies in and around the home that contains a range of health-damaging pollutants, including small particles that penetrate deep into the lungs and enter the bloodstream. In poorly ventilated dwellings, indoor smoke like cooking indoors in townships can have levels of fine particles 100 times higher than acceptable.

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Exposure is particularly high among women and children, who spend the most time near the domestic hearth. Reliance on polluting fuels and technologies also require significant time for cooking on an inefficient device, and gathering and preparing fuel.

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Our Goal:

We want to develop and deploy 100 000 air quality senors in informal settlements of Gauteng in South Africa, where one sensors device costs $65.

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Cost includes the following:

• Manufacturing and hardware

• Deployment

• Artificial Intelligence modeling with the data, with predictions

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