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Aclima: Leveraging IoT for Environmental Intelligence with Google Cloud Platform

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries	Buildings Cities & Municipalities
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Indoor Air Quality Monitoring Outdoor Environmental Monitoring
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Testing & Certification
Challenge	Aclima, a San Francisco-based company, specializes in the design and deployment of environmental sensor networks. The company aimed to measure, map, and better understand air quality across America’s cities. The challenge was to track air quality at a granular level, block-by-block and neighborhood-by-neighborhood, which had never been done before. The company's fleet of Aclima-equipped Google Street View cars had to collect nearly a billion data points, covering more than 100,000 miles. This massive data collection required a scalable, secure platform to manage what was quickly becoming one of the largest datasets in the world. The company needed a solution that could handle vast amounts of data and provide scalable growth potential. Read More
About Customer	Aclima is a technology company based in the United States that designs and deploys sensor networks to advance environmental intelligence. The company aims to improve human health and planetary health by combining leading-edge sensing technology, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Aclima's platform translates real-time data into actionable insights, transforming how we understand and manage our buildings, cities, and industries. The company's mission is to create a more resilient, healthy, and thriving world by providing a better understanding of the environment. Read More
Solution	Aclima chose Google Cloud Platform as it could handle vast amounts of data and provided scalable growth potential. The platform measures many airborne pollutants, including nitrogen dioxide, nitric oxide, ozone, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, black carbon, particulate matter, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The hyperlocal data streams in real-time to an enterprise data warehouse and computing platform built using Google Cloud Platform. Google Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine support Aclima’s proprietary software translating information from sensors into data points for analysis and writing them to storage, including Google Cloud Storage and Google BigQuery. Aclima's platform is supporting one of the largest data sets of urban air pollution ever assembled, the storage of which lies exclusively on Google Cloud Platform. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms

Applicable Industries

Buildings

Cities & Municipalities

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Indoor Air Quality Monitoring

Outdoor Environmental Monitoring

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Testing & Certification

Challenge

Aclima, a San Francisco-based company, specializes in the design and deployment of environmental sensor networks. The company aimed to measure, map, and better understand air quality across America’s cities. The challenge was to track air quality at a granular level, block-by-block and neighborhood-by-neighborhood, which had never been done before. The company's fleet of Aclima-equipped Google Street View cars had to collect nearly a billion data points, covering more than 100,000 miles. This massive data collection required a scalable, secure platform to manage what was quickly becoming one of the largest datasets in the world. The company needed a solution that could handle vast amounts of data and provide scalable growth potential.

About Customer

Aclima is a technology company based in the United States that designs and deploys sensor networks to advance environmental intelligence. The company aims to improve human health and planetary health by combining leading-edge sensing technology, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Aclima's platform translates real-time data into actionable insights, transforming how we understand and manage our buildings, cities, and industries. The company's mission is to create a more resilient, healthy, and thriving world by providing a better understanding of the environment.

Solution

Aclima chose Google Cloud Platform as it could handle vast amounts of data and provided scalable growth potential. The platform measures many airborne pollutants, including nitrogen dioxide, nitric oxide, ozone, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, black carbon, particulate matter, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The hyperlocal data streams in real-time to an enterprise data warehouse and computing platform built using Google Cloud Platform. Google Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine support Aclima’s proprietary software translating information from sensors into data points for analysis and writing them to storage, including Google Cloud Storage and Google BigQuery. Aclima's platform is supporting one of the largest data sets of urban air pollution ever assembled, the storage of which lies exclusively on Google Cloud Platform.

Impact #1	Aclima's solution has enabled the company to focus on gathering and analyzing environmental data rather than managing IT. The company's platform is supporting one of the largest data sets of urban air pollution ever assembled. Aclima makes its data and analytics available to air quality experts and research partners, including the EPA and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The data is also enabling research at the University of Arizona’s Institute on Place and Wellbeing through a deployment with the U.S. General Services Administration. The EPA, Environmental Defense Fund, and others are applying Aclima’s city-scale environmental intelligence to better understand how air pollution affects human health in specific communities. Soon, community members will be able to view the data on street-level air quality maps in Google Earth and Google Maps.

Impact #1

Aclima's solution has enabled the company to focus on gathering and analyzing environmental data rather than managing IT. The company's platform is supporting one of the largest data sets of urban air pollution ever assembled. Aclima makes its data and analytics available to air quality experts and research partners, including the EPA and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The data is also enabling research at the University of Arizona’s Institute on Place and Wellbeing through a deployment with the U.S. General Services Administration. The EPA, Environmental Defense Fund, and others are applying Aclima’s city-scale environmental intelligence to better understand how air pollution affects human health in specific communities. Soon, community members will be able to view the data on street-level air quality maps in Google Earth and Google Maps.

Benefit #1	Collects 2 billion data points daily
Benefit #2	Scales to support large-scale deployments of tens of thousands of sensors around the world
Benefit #3	Translates billions of air quality data points into actionable intelligence

Benefit #1

Collects 2 billion data points daily

Benefit #2

Scales to support large-scale deployments of tens of thousands of sensors around the world

Benefit #3

Translates billions of air quality data points into actionable intelligence

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Aclima: Leveraging IoT for Environmental Intelligence with Google Cloud Platform

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