Over subsequent twelve months, Jaguar I-Pace EVs outfitted with Google’s Street View mapping technology are going to be driving around Dublin. and that they won’t be collecting just Street View imagery — they’ll even be monitoring the city’s air quality. Google has teamed up with Jaguar Land Rover for the project, making the I-Pace the primary all-electric Street View car. additionally to mounting Street View cameras on the roof of the vehicles, though, Jaguar’s engineers also equipped them with air quality measuring sensors, in order that they could pull double duty like London’s Street View cars did back in 2018.
The mobile air sensors developed by Aclima will me measuring dioxide (NO2) and CO2 (CO2) emissions, also as fine particles (PM2.5) within the air on a street-by-street basis. They’re expected to supply Google’s research project partners with the info they have to be ready to develop maps of street-level pollution.
Google is functioning with the Dublin council for the project dubbed “Air View Dublin.” It’s a part of the tech giant’s efforts to map hyperlocal air quality data under the Environmental Insights Explorer program, which could give local governments the knowledge they have to be able lookout of their cities’ climate and pollution issues.