Google Maps: Are you living in stifling air? Now Google Maps will tell you the air quality of your city..

Due to pollution, North India including Delhi is troubled by smog. The environment has deteriorated so much that recently the Air Quality Index (AQI) of the capital touched the level of 491. Delhi-Mumbai are big cities, their AQI is known immediately, but what about small cities? How will you know the AQI of the city in which you live? Breathe a sigh of relief, because Google Maps has found a solution to this. Now you will get the Air View+ feature in Google Maps, which will let you know whether the air quality is stifling or not.

Google Maps has launched a new feature Air View Plus in India. This tool works through Artificial Intelligence (AI), which will tell the air quality of your place in real-time. The new feature of Google Maps can be availed across the country. People can easily check whether the air of their city is poisoned or clean.

The government will also benefit.

The Air View Plus feature is designed in such a way that it can provide information about air quality not only to people but also to government agencies. This feature will be very useful for those government agencies that are engaged in reducing pollution and do work like environmental monitoring and urban planning.

Announcement of a new feature in a blog post

Yael Maguire, Vice-President and General Manager of Google Maps Platform and Google Earth, and Miriam Daniel, Vice-President and General Manager of Google Maps, announced the new feature in a blog post.

Google has partnered with local climate tech companies to get air quality data. Information about air quality across the country is given by processing big data inputs through Google AI models.

Sensors in more than 150 cities

Climate tech companies like OrSure and Respire Living Sciences have set up air quality sensor networks in cities where there was no infrastructure for air quality monitoring.

The sensors measure multiple air quality parameters every minute and have been installed in over 150 Indian cities to cover as much population as possible.