Citing the inadequate weather information collection, an international partnership is testing the world's start air quality ledger and trying to stem a global crisis.

Air quality as public health crisis

PlanetWatch announced earlier today the battle-testing of air quality monitors linked to technology company Algorand's blockchain.

"It is currently operating in several Italian cities (stock-still installations and mobile ones on trolleys and buses), plus a long-term installation examination in the Chill," Algorand's Keli Callaghan told Cointelegraph.

According to a PlanetWatch post on Jan. 23, the current state of air monitoring is unresponsive to today's needs. Large regime stations occur are available in cities and transport hubs. Data might not exist released for a whole twenty-four hour period. Nevertheless poor air quality poses dire health bug, especially for children — babe bloodshed, asthma, neurodevelopmental disorders, and childhood cancers, according to PlanetWatch.

Looking ahead

The goal for the partnership is "a global network of air quality sensors and environmentally-conscious people." The sensors can exist installed in private homes or even carried on one's person, which allows information to exist uploaded in real time.

"The sensors have been thoroughly tested and the data is publically available," PlanetWatch founder Claudio Parrinello, a quondam inquiry scientist, told Cointelegraph.

The sensors collect data using Boston-based Algorand's blockchain, "creating the first global, open, immutable $225 historical air quality repository." The validated data volition then be transcribed onto the blockchain. This database will then be readable to all users. Sensor owners will receive PLANET tokens in exchange for collecting data.

PlanetWatch is reportedly in talks with institutional investors nigh where the token volition office. "Ultimately," Parrinello said, "streaming air quality data to PlanetWatch will be the main machinery to get PLANET tokens. Sensing is mining!"

The big question, of class, is whether there volition exist much interest.

"Nosotros've been getting a lot of involvement already," Parrinello said. "We might be taking pre-orders."