Tackling Air Pollution in the City of Zagreb
To build a healthy planet for all, the European Green Deal calls for the EU to better monitor, report, prevent and remedy air, water, soil and consumer products pollution, among other things. There is an urgency to act as environmental pollution represents additional significant risk for higher mortality and higher burden of diseases like cancer, […]
Transforming Croatian Schools with Indoor Air Quality Monitoring
Overview We’ve partnered up with the Croatian Academic Research Network (CARNET), to embark on a transformative mission to improve indoor air quality in over 400 schools across Croatia. Leveraging our innovative Sensees Indoor Air Quality System and Sensees Indoor Sensors, we have helped bring healthier learning environments to thousands of students. The Challenge Schools across […]
The City of Dubrovnik Taking Care of Air Quality in Educational Institutions
Stjepan Ćavar, DURA – Dubrovnik Development Agency We are glad that the success of the Project of measuring air quality in Dubrovnik schools and kindergartens once again proved the importance of the application of modern technologies and Smart City solutions in everyday life. During the pandemic, we witnessed how especially useful the installed system can […]
Zaprešić – Smart Air Quality Monitoring in Schools
„We aim to provide each child with a healthy indoor environment in child care facilities, kindergartens, schools and public recreational settings…“. These are the words in which ministers and state representatives of the European Region of the WHO have signed their commitment to improve air quality in children-related public institutions. A research conducted in Croatian […]
Additional Quality Assurance Safety Net for Smart Sense measuring station for air quality monitoring
For several years, European Union has been a trailblazer in making the world a cleaner and healthier place, and one of the pillars of healthy society is the quality of the air we all breathe. Knowing this, EU has adopted regulation on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe1. In it, among other things, […]
Combining indoor and outdoor air quality data – next step in air quality management
In 2019, Karlovac city started a SenzoriKA – a project aiming to ground the foundation of Smart city Karlovac initiative. In it, a higher efficiency of city institutions and projects is planned to be achieved through building a network of smart sensors and energy metering devices. When it comes to air quality sensors, we are […]
Air Quality – Both Challenge and Interest of Tourist Destinations
Tourism and travelling have become an important part of modern-day life, but they, among many positive, have a number of negative consequences. Environmental impact is probably the most obvious one. It consists of many different aspects, such as depletion of natural resources like water and land, discharging waste, pressure on endangered species, noise pollution, carbon […]
Public Transport as a Keystone of Dynamic Air Quality Monitoring
City of Graz is well known for it’s numerous tourist attractions, interesting history and rich culture, but lately it is being named in a rather unattractive manner – City of Dust. This is a result of inconvenient geographical position in the valley between local mountains which makes it harder for air to flow naturally, especially […]
Citizens Showing Interest in Air Quality Data – Zabok City Example
The Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund (EPEEF) serves as a central point for collecting and investing extra budgetary resources in the projects of environmental protection, energy efficiency and use of renewable energy sources in Croatia. As part of its Smart city initiative, Zabok, a city in northern part of Croatia, managed to co-finance installation […]
Smart Environment for Air Quality and 5G Monitoring
Technology development, among many positive changes and consequences, also brings number of challenges to our society and it is no wonder that there is usually some resistance to deployment of new technologies. One of the latest examples of such resistance is related to 5G technology. For example, research conducted in France in 2020 shows that […]
