Aclima: Leveraging IoT for Environmental Intelligence with Google Cloud Platform
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
About The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
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