- Dubai Municipality will be developing ‘Smart Air Quality Stations’ to set up in the city, for Air Quality Strategy 2017
- A number of advanced monitoring systems are in the works by Dubai Municipality, which intend raise public awareness of the importance of clean air
- The preliminary stages of the project includes analysing data from the last several years to create over 300 digital maps pinpointing the locations in which pollution levels increase
- Dubai Municipality statistics gathered from 13 smart stations across the Emirate revealed that Dubai’s air quality had improved 88 per cent by the end of 2015, higher than the target level of 85 per cent
- Air Quality Strategy 2017 aims to turn Dubai into a city with world-class standards for air purity
- The Smart Air Quality Station is a first-of-its-kind in the region, which includes 20 devices to monitor about 100 components and composites that pollute the air
- Dubai Municipality already has 13 other smart air stations in different locations across Dubai
- Air quality in any city is affected by pollution levels, especially by the presence of particles and chemicals like carbon monoxide
- Air pollution is a significant contributing factor in the deaths of 600,000 children every five years across the globe
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