About Respirer Living Sciences
Respirer (http://www.respirer.in/) is a pioneer in made-in-India emissions monitoring and reporting technologies. Between 2017 and 2023, the number of its monitors went from ~150 to over 2,500. It has partnered with prominent institutions like the IITs, governments, think tanks, corporates and CSOs in India and abroad. Respirer’s emission monitors are low-cost, its solutions high-tech, AI-driven. These measure both greenhouse gases as well as the most prominent air pollutants – PM2.5, NO2, O3, CO, TVOC, CO2 and methane.
Problem Statement
Why not take the cleanest route?
One challenge of living in an Indian city is using public transport, especially buses, to commute from location A to location B. Usually , commuters look for the shortest route, assuming it will take the least amount of time to reach their destination. However, at some points on most of these routes, the commuter encounters heavy traffic and high air pollution.
Would it be possible to travel on the cleanest route in a city – one that passes through areas with the least pollution without affecting travel time?
Problem Definition
Develop a GIS-based web app to indicate the PM2.5 pollution levels that a traveller will encounter during his/her journey, from start to finish.
- Use the data from Open Transit Data – Delhi (https://otd.delhi.gov.in) to analyze trips undertaken by the buses in Delhi, their stops and the time spent on the route or between stops.
- Show the PM2.5 levels recorded at the monitoring station closest to the bus stops using historical data available from CPCB.
- Develop a visualisation to show the PM2.5 levels for each of the route's segments – from the air quality monitoring station closest to one stop to the one near the next stop.
- Repeat the same until the final stop on the journey.
- The route should thus show the different route segments with their respective PM 2.5 levels.
