PAQS: Real-time Pollution Mapping Solutions

My Air, PAQS’ indoor air quality monitor, on the other hand, has sensors specific to indoor pollution such as carbon dioxide, volatile organic compounds (VOC) besides particulate matter (PM2.5) and temperature and humidity. Great care, including device and sensor diagnostics is taken to ensure reliable and credible data for continuous, real time collection of data. The data from a network of hyper local data points is then aggregated, analyzed, managed, and then provided in appropriate formats through API services, real-time heat maps or widgets. PAQS also delivers predictive intelligence solutions for environmental modelling and forecasting, leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence. Also, keeping in mind the sensitivity of data, PAQS has written over a million lines of codes for both firmware and analytics, thus ensuring the data does not cross our national borders.

Citing one of PAQS’s many innovations, Vaidyanathan notes that the firm has successfully developed and installed a Mobile Environmental Monitoring platform on Jaipur Road Transport buses to provide real-time monitoring across various routes in the city, which is one of the global firsts deployed in India. PAQS had also deployed a mobile solution at ELCITA, the Electronic City Smart Township in Bangalore.

The full stack solutions developed is one that sets PAQS apart from others. With a team comprising experienced professionals each with specific domain knowledge, the solution anticipates the needs of the Urban town planners, civic authorities, municipal commissioners and healthcare professionals. The device itself is differentiated in terms of design, clearly standing out from among the many products available in the market. Besides having a large customer base including MNCs such as Cisco, Wipro, IBM, PAQS also has developed specific solutions addressing the ‘Mother and Child’, schools and hotels segments. “Going ahead, we aim to become thought leaders in this domain and help create a safer and pollution-free environment,” concludes Vaidyanathan.