Unprecedented urban heat stress has been experienced across India this summer. While most heat wave warnings focused on temperatures above 45 deg C -- the brunt of the unlivable heat stress was experienced in east coast cities of India. At 196 hours, city of Vijayawada experienced the highest number of heat stress hours across India. Nearly 10 cities had more than 100 heat stress hours. New climate analytics report by Respirer made it to the front-page story of LiveMint. For full report, do see here: https://lnkd.in/dyxZh8Jk #UrbanHeatStress #HeatIndex #MINT
Respirer Living Sciences
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Building scientifically validated IoT & Big Data solutions to enable smarter responses to key societal challenges.
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Respirer Living Sciences is driven by the vision to improve citizens' quality of life through data democratization and participatory urbanism. This involves building IoT solutions that enable the effective monitoring and measurement of key parameters like air quality, waste, water etc. that in-turn empower policymakers and industry players to take meaningful action. Our flagship product is atmos, India’s first scientifically validated air quality monitoring solution. atmos is an affordable, sensor-based real-time air quality device (and network) designed to help change makers like the government take better-informed decisions around air quality, and enable high-emission industry players to improve (and report) their SDG / ESG performance. Through strategic partnerships with the foremost scientific research organizations, we have played an integral role in establishing Make-In-India IoT sensor-based technologies as the go-to solutions to bridge the affordability and scalability gap in countries like India. We are an ambitious group of climate scientists and engineers currently focused on expanding our IoT and Big Data expertise to address other key societal challenges including the assessment of healthcare technologies being used in the latest COVID-19 response.
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How can we responsibly report air quality in our cities? With a reliable and standardized framework that adheres to global FAIR data principles, says Respirer's Founder and CEO Ronak Sutaria in his editorial for LiveMint today. See https://lnkd.in/d9_b9sTX
In today’s guest editorial in LiveMint, I highlight the critical gaps in the data used for ranking cities for their air quality. We are 5-years and nearly ₹9,000 Crore behind and we haven't yet established the necessary and sufficient conditions to track our city-level air quality. The technology and opportunity to implement this, including via Open Network protocols currently exists. Global FAIR data principles are essential to get the correct perspective - which affects our children’s health and our economy. Recent global city-level air quality rankings had 83 Indian cities featured. 52 of those cities were based on a single air quality monitoring site. Cities with 40 monitoring locations were compared with cities having 1 location - creating an inherent bias in the reporting. National-level policies and mission-mode programme such as the National Clean Air Programme has allocated over ₹9,000 Crore to track air pollution in 131 Indian cities. But the 2019-launched programme still lacks a reliable standardized framework. Any city-level reported data should have adequate spatial, temporal and parameter-level coverage of the city-level air quality conditions. The ₹15-20 Lakhs per monitoring parameter per site is not suitable technology for the city-level air pollution tracking requirements. Any data used for city-level tracking needs to adhere to global standards such as FAIR data principles - where data is FINDABLE (public at large should be able to easily find the data); AFFORDABLE (data should have been generated using affordable technology and processes); INTEROPERABLE (data should be usable by other machine-driven data systems) and REPEATABLE (any comparable monitoring and reporting technology should result in repeatable results). The existing city-level air pollution tracking doesn't meet 3 of these 4 standards. The administration would do well to adopt a standardized framework which adheres to such global FAIR data principles. Full article on MINT here: https://lnkd.in/dcwkrSye Santosh Harish Aarti Khosla Govindraj Ethiraj Neil Borate Sachchida Nand Tripathi Premnath Venugopalan Kushal Banerjee
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Respirer Living Sciences's latest newsletter is here! Read about India's first rural air quality dashboard (made by us and IIT Kanpur), manganese mines in South Africa using atmos devices and meeting ESG compliances, and how we're correlating air quality and traffic data in Bengaluru to come up with sustainable mobility solutions for the city. Visit: https://lnkd.in/dHZ-AipK Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Sachchida Nand Tripathi Santosh Harish Mohlabani Jan Mepha Ronak Sutaria #ruralairquality #miningindustry #emissionsreporting #airpollution #sustainabletransport
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On NDTV last night, Respirer Living Sciences' Founder and CEO Ronak Sutaria shared data for rising air pollution in Delhi. PM2.5 (fine particulate matter) levels went up by 32.9% between January 2022 and January 2024 (from 154.2 µg/m3 to 205 µg/m3). In fact, 2024 levels were more than 13 times the WHO guideline! A 2022 study in The Lancet has shown that long-term exposure to air pollution is associated with increased risk of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). And The Indian Express just reported a sharp increase in COPD deaths in Delhi over the past 7 years. So, what kind of monitoring can help to safeguard public health when air pollution is so high? Read Ronak Sutaria's suggestion below. #copd #airpollution #publichealth #particulatematter
Sharp increase in respiratory fatalities has been reported in 2022-23 - with COPD related deaths in Delhi last year being highest in last 7 years, as per RTI data from The Indian Express. While the RTI data has revealed a challenging reality, what is more important is to track the huge increase in the sale and usage of nebulisers and other ‘Over The Counter’ and prescription medicines for respiratory ailments. More readily accessible data from pharmacies and medicine shops would reveal an even more grim picture than the RTI data. The 40 locations monitored across Delhi have shown a 30% deterioration in both the carcinogenic PM2.5 and PM10 levels between Jan 2022 and Jan 2024. While efforts are being made - these irrefutable public health datasets from Delhi is another stark reminder of our priorities (or lack of it) in these important election months. NDTV report and interview: Global Reports Link Deaths To Pollution https://lnkd.in/dmkJyUZm Vishnu Som #PublicHealth #AirPollution
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#RespirerReports aims to reach diverse audiences with information about air quality in their cities. Our report on February 2024 PM10 and PM2.5 levels across India was featured in 𝑴𝒂𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒕𝒓𝒂 𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔 (published by The Times Of India group) this past Sunday. Write to us if you would like to make air quality data accessible to audiences inhabiting any Indian language universe! #marathi #media #regionallanguages #particulatematter #PM #dataanalytics #climatedata #airquality #airpollution #cities #CPCB #february2024 #mumbai #accessibility Ronak Sutaria Santosh Harish Bhavreen Kandhari
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#RespirerReports' analysis of February PM2.5 and PM10 levels from 2019 to 2024 was featured in The Times Of India today! We analysed data from all Indian cities, ranked the most and least polluted cities (including #NCAP cities), and looked closely at air quality in 10 major cities, including Delhi and Mumbai. The #TOI article also highlights how particulate matter levels have changed since February 2019, noting improvement and deterioration in the major cities. The graphs below show PM2.5 levels in all Indian cities in February 2024 as well as daily PM2.5 levels in Mumbai last month. Watch this space for data analysis from around the country! (Data source: Central Pollution Control Board, Delhi) #particulatematter #PM #dataanalytics #climatedata #airquality #airpollution #cities #CPCB #february2024 #delhi #mumbai Santosh Harish Ronak Sutaria
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Yesterday, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, launched Project AMRIT’s air quality dashboard in Patna. The dashboard was highlighted in a presentation at the ‘Bihar Climate Action Conclave and Expo’, where CM Nitish Kumar, various government dignitaries and environmental organisations were present. As the video below explains, each of Bihar’s 534 blocks now has an air quality sensor, which provides real-time air quality data. This rural air quality monitoring network is a first for any Indian state! Data for PM2.5, temperature and humidity, recorded by these sensors, is uploaded to a server and made available to division, district and block administrators. It is graphically represented via line charts, bar graphs and box plots. This is, perhaps, climate action at its best! Small towns and remote villages will now fall within the ambit of this hyperlocal air quality monitoring network, and our fellow Indians in rural areas can be one step closer towards clean air policies! Project AMRIT is a collaboration between Respirer Living Sciences and Centre of Excellence - ATMAN, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Government of Bihar Bihar State Pollution Control Board WRI India Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) ICLEI Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation UN Environment Programme Development Alternatives #dashboard #bihar #nitishkumar #iitkanpur #dataanalytics #airpollution #airquality #AQdata #hyperlocal #monitoring #mitigation #climatestrategy #climatetech
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Respirer Living Sciences is thrilled to share that its Project AMRIT dashboard, developed in collaboration with Prof. Sachchida Nand Tripathi's team at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, is being launched by Hon’ble Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Patna today. Project AMRIT has set up India’s first and largest rural air quality monitoring network across the states of Bihar and U.P. The launch will take place at the ‘Bihar Climate Action Conclave and Expo’, where the Bihar government and various stakeholders will release a strategy document outlining long-term plans for climate-resilient and low-carbon development pathways. We are excited to be a part of this climate action! Respirer Living Sciences is an industry partner for AMRIT, the flagship project of the Centre of Excellence - ATMAN, a world-class research institute at IIT Kanpur. The project has made possible the installation of 528 low-cost, sensor-based air quality monitors across rural and urban locations in Bihar – many of them made by Respirer. This hyperlocal monitoring network enables data collection for PM2.5 (fine particulate matter), temperature and humidity at the state, division, district and monitor levels - for both real-time and historical data. Additionally, data visualisations such as line graphs, bar graphs and box plots can be accessed for 24-hour and month-long intervals. (See the screenshots below). For instance, the AMRIT dashboard provides the PM2.5 levels for Khusrupur, a town of 15,531 (Census 2011) that's 31 kilometres east of Patna and had no monitors earlier. Between March 1 and 2, its sole monitor recorded a hazardous PM2.5 level of 658 µg/m3. (The national daily safe limit for PM2.5 is 60 µg/m3.) We hope that such valuable local data emerging from the project can inform future policies for cleaner air and climate action! Government of Bihar Bihar State Pollution Control Board WRI India Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) ICLEI Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation UN Environment Programme Development Alternatives #dashboard #bihar #nitishkumar #iitkanpur #dataanalytics #airpollution #airquality #AQdata #hyperlocal #monitoring #mitigation #climatestrategy #climatetech
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In February 2024, Patna’s PM10 levels at 230 µg/m3 were more than twice the National Ambient Air Quality Standards and more than 5 times the WHO guideline (45 µg/m3). Delhi’s PM2.5 levels last month were 102 µg/m3 – 1.7 times the NAAQS and nearly seven times the WHO guideline (15 µg/m3). Other cities where PM10 levels exceeded the NAAQS were Delhi, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Lucknow and Ahmedabad. Those with PM2.5 higher than the NAAQS were Patna, Kolkata, Jaipur and Ahmedabad. Delhi also had the highest levels of nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide, though they were within safe limits, while Jaipur had the highest ozone levels. Conversely, Hyderabad had the lowest PM10, PM2.5 and carbon monoxide levels, while Chennai had the lowest levels of nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and ozone. In sum, this data analysis by #RespirerReports found that in February 2024, 7 out of 10 major Indian cities had PM10 levels above the national safe limit (100 µg/m3), while 5 out of 10 cities had PM2.5 levels exceeding the safe limit (60 µg/m3). Data was sourced from Atlas AQ, Respirer’s online air quality dashboard: https://lnkd.in/dd_ZjXEN #airquality #AQdata #dataanalysis #dataactivism #citizenanalysis #particulatematter #nitrogendioxide #sulphurdioxide #carbonmonoxide #ozone #rankings #cities #AtlasAQ #dashboard Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) ICLEI Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation WRI India UN Environment Programme Bihar State Pollution Control Board Jal-Jeevan-Hariyali Mission Government of Bihar Development Alternatives Ronak Sutaria Santosh Harish
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🏙 How clean has your city’s air been in 2024? #RespirerReports looked at daily PM2.5 data for Delhi and Mumbai for the first two months of 2024 (till February 25) – and this is what we found. ⬆ For all the 56 days analysed, PM2.5 levels in Delhi were above than the national daily safe limit of 60 µg/m³ (NAAQS). In Mumbai, however, the levels were above the safe limit for only 10 days. 🔼 So far in 2024, Delhi had 4 ‘severe’ days (PM2.5>250 µg/m³), 35 ‘very poor’ days (121-250 µg/m³), 5 ‘poor’ days (91-120 µg/m³) and 12 ‘moderate’ days (61-90 µg/m³). 🔽 By contrast, Mumbai had 9 ‘moderate’ days, 41 ‘satisfactory’ days (31-60 µg/m³) and 6 ‘good’ days (0-30 µg/m³) this year. ☀ However, as winter comes to a close and temperatures begin to rise, both cities saw fewer polluted days from February 1. ⏬ In Delhi, the number of ‘very poor’ days in February fell by 70% compared to January, while in Mumbai, the ‘moderately polluted’ days in February fell by 20% compared to the previous month 🎦 To see the levels in both cities next to each other, watch the animation below. And follow us for monthly data analyses of air pollutants in your city. #Delhi #Mumbai #2024 #particulatematter #airquality #dataanalysis #cities #KnowYourCityAir | Santosh Harish Ronak Sutaria