CHENNAI: BlueSky Analytics, an IIT alum-founded startup, has launched a mobile app that can provide real-time information on air pollution across India free of cost to everyone. Named ‘BreeZo’, the app which is also available as a web platform, uses satellite monitoring and sensors across the country to provide information on air quality at a single glance.
The app will track live levels of multiple pollutants as well as 200+ locations in real-time and compare pollution levels of multiple locations. Through this, the user will get information about the air quality in their area, the impact of each pollutant on the air the user breathes as well as historical data and changes in air quality across space and time through interactive graphs and visuals. The app also comes with the handy ‘compass’ button which will help users receive instant near real-time updates on the air quality. Through this, they will be able to determine cleaner air routes, when to go outside and what areas to avoid at certain times.
Blue Sky Analytics was co-founded by Abhilasha Purwar, an alumi of IIT (BHU) Varanasi, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a Fulbright Scholar, and Kshitij Purwar, who dropped out of college at the age of 20 to become a full-time developer. A one-stop solution for seekers of environmental data, the startup now aims to offer exhaustive information on water in 2020 and land and heat in 2021.
The duo soon plans to include new features to the app including air pollution predictions for the next three days based on the user's location, health recommendations, and tips to reduce your exposure to harmful air and integration of their network to users' smart devices such as watches, TV and voice assistants.
On their plans to expand further, Kshitij Purwar, Chief Technical Officer, Blue Sky Analytics, commented, “Our vision is to build the world's largest spatially and temporally continuous dataset on key environmental parameters and transform the monitoring, diligence, and risk assessment systems in India and globally.”
Emphasizing the need for better “environmental intelligence”, Abhilasha Purwar, Chief Executive Officer, Blue Sky Analytics, added that the vision of the company is to enable people to “make an informed decision, evaluate various courses of action, and lead smart environmentalism” through accurate data.
