Have you have ever wondered about the effects of Delhi’s air on people who work outdoors? How about Delhi’s traffic police? We sure have at Smart Air, and we have been waiting for research to catch up with our ruminations. A study on Delhi’s traffic police officers, published in January 2017, finally provides some answers – though pessimistic […]
Category: Delhi
A $3 billion pollution ‘solution’ in Delhi – but will it work?
Last week, the Ministry of Urban Development announced a Rs. 19,762 crore ($2.95 billion) solution to reduce vehicular pollution in Delhi. If approved, the proposal will seek to reduce emissions from the over 8.8 million vehicles in the city, mostly owned by the rising middle and upper classes. Despite this class differential in vehicular emissions, some of the improvements […]
Feeling the heat? You’re feeling the pollution too.
Had trouble breathing lately? It might be because despite popular opinion, Delhi’s air pollution levels aren’t doing so great in the summer heat. Our team regularly monitors air quality through the Air Quality Index Widget on our phone, which uses U.S. Embassy Air Quality data. The U.S. Embassy converts P.M. 2.5 (mg per cubic meter) to […]
Does Spring bring better air to Delhi?
Delhi Winters are notoriously known for bad levels of air pollution, but we often hear that air gets cleaner come Spring. We were curious what was happening in our own backyard, so we put out our Dylos Particle Counter on a rooftop near our Saket office. The Particle Counter measures particle counts between 0.5 to 2.5 micron in size per […]
Smart Air Filters featured in The Hindu
On March 31, Smart Air Filters was exclusively featured in The Hindu’s Business Line. In “Making cleaner air affordable the DIY way,” Chetna Mehra highlighted our commitment to providing clean air at a low-cost. Here’s an excerpt from the article – you can read more here. If you are living in Delhi, you are already […]
How healthy are Delhi kids’ lungs?
In 2008, the Chittranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) in Kolkata published the results from a study examining the health of lung function among school children, aged 4-17, in Delhi. To test whether children in Delhi fared worse than those outside of the city, the study compared 11,628 children from different parts of Delhi to 4,536 children […]
Smart Air Filters featured on CNN Money
Charles Riley, a journalist with CNN Money, recently published a long-form article on Delhi’s air quality and its impact on individuals—particularly children and those with asthma. Smart Air Filters was thrilled to be featured as one of the groups making Delhi’s air cleaner through our low-cost, DIY air filters. The article also featured Saurabh Bhasin, a […]
Video: Air pollution in Delhi is affecting school kids
New study in India directly links air pollution to deteriorating health of school kids in Delhi. The Indian Express has put together a video to highlight the major findings of the study: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqpJSZH-834&w=560&h=315]