Air pollution makes people less productive because they get headaches and feel tired. Tech Xplore. Air pollution in South Africa: Affordable new devices use AI to monitor hotspots in real time.

South Africa is considering whether to add its biggest urban area, which includes its largest city and capital, to key regions where it plans to tackle air pollution as pressure grows on the ...

Key findings compiled by the report include: Exposure to air pollution is the second leading risk factor for death in Africa (HEI 2022), and achieving World Health Organization guidelines could ...

Air pollution in South Africa … Affordable new devices use AI to monitor hotspots in real time. By Bruce Mellado · 18 Aug 2024 04:00 . Image ...

Oct. 7, 2021 — Air pollution was responsible for 1.1 million deaths across Africa in 2019, with household air pollution accounting for 700,000 fatalities, while increased outdoor air pollution ...

South Africa’s environment minister, and the national air-quality officer and the local unit of ArcelorMittal SA have been sued by environmental activists for allegedly not acting against the ...

China Global air pollution persists as leading health risk, hitting Asia and Africa the hardest Reducing hazardous PM2.5 particles to WHO levels could increase global life expectancy by 2.3 years ...

South Africa: Air Pollution in South Africa - Affordable New Devices Use AI to Monitor Hotspots in Real Time. 14 August 2024. The Conversation Africa (Johannesburg) analysis By Bruce Mellado.

Ai_r measures air pollution. Courtesy SACAQM. We decided to create, for the first time in South Africa, a cost effective air quality monitoring system based on sensors, Internet of Things and ...

There are only 130 big air quality measuring stations in South Africa. They only measure the air quality in the vicinity of the station. This is why we need cost-effective, dense networks made up ...