User stories
The AirCasting platform empowers community-based organizations, educators, academics, regulators, city managers, and community scientists to map air pollution and organize for clean air.
Educators
Bringing AirBeam and AirCasting to your classroom is a proven way of sparking student interest in environmental science and driving civic engagement. Students gather, analyze, and share data with the larger AirCasting community, applying mapping technology to solve real-world environmental problems via community-oriented research projects.
Community Scientists
Our low (and no) cost technologies make the platform an attractive option for all community scientists. Whether you need data for a specific advocacy campaign, or just want to limit your personal pollution exposures, the AirBeam’s hyperlocal measurements can help you visualize what you’re breathing, add credibility to your cause, and guide better daily decisions.
Researchers
The credibility of your data is important and control of your data is paramount. The proven accuracy of the AirBeam’s hyperlocal measurements will enable you to create high-resolution pollution surfaces. Configure the AirBeam to feed data directly to your database or just beam data to the AirCasting platform, where it can easily be visualized, shared, and exported.
Activists & Non-profits
Enhancing quality of life in your community is essential and our platform, when in your hands, becomes a powerful tool for clean air advocacy. Whether you want to curtail local polluters or campaign for better quality of life, the AirBeam and AirCasting platform bring visibility to the quality of the air you and your community are breathing.
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Researchers
USC Environmental Health Centers
The Community Engagement Program on Health and the Environment (CEPHE) at USC Environmental Health Centers (USCEHC) uses a variety of low-cost air quality instruments and data platforms, including the AirBeam + AirCasting platform, to run participatory air monitoring programs that engage community members around air quality issues where they live, work, and play.
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Activists & Non-profits
Environmental Law & Policy Center
Chicago residents are hospitalized for asthma at twice the national average. Making matters worse, the rate of asthma hospitalizations is even higher in many of Chicago’s predominately working-class African-American and Latinx neighborhoods.
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Citizen Scientists
Airparif
Founded in 1979, Airparif is a French non-profit organization vested by the Ministry of Environment to monitor air quality, forecast pollution episodes, educate the public on the environment, and assess the effectiveness of air pollution mitigation measures in the Paris metropolitan region.
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Activists & Non-profits
Clean Air Carolina
Clean Air Carolina (CAC), a Charlotte-based non-profit, works to ensure cleaner air quality for all North Carolinians through education and advocacy and by working with their partners to reduce sources of pollution. For the past two years, CAC has been distributing mobile and stationary air quality instruments and providing hands-on training to Charlotte residents as part of their AirKeepers program.
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Educators
Queensbridge Tech Lab
The Queensbridge Tech Lab (QTL) is a branch of the Queens Public Library located in the Queensbridge Houses, the largest public housing development in North America. QTL offers workshops on and open access to a variety of digital and analog tools, from 3D printing and graphic design to sewing and robotics.
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Researchers
Barry Commoner Center for Health & the Environment
The Barry Commoner Center for Health & the Environment (BCCHE) is an environmental and occupational health research institute at Queens College, City University of New York. The mission of the Center is to identify and rectify environmental and occupational threats to human health.
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