High-tech California relies on a startup in Utah to see how smoky its air is.
"PurpleAir is kind of my go-to for measuring the risk for going outdoors," Peacock, 27, said in an interview.
It follows a robust tradition of crowdsourcing in the tech industry, from volunteer-edited Wikipedia articles to the traffic information and mapping app Waze.run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and others because the government's map can't compete with the neighborhood-level information from PurpleAir.People in California are increasingly calling for quality data about air quality as wildfires have become bigger, more common and more intense.
"If you're using @AIRNow by the U.S. gov't EPA it is giving you inaccurate — and dangerous — information," Caterina Fake, a venture capitalist who co-founded the photo service Flickr,"Air quality sensors are *yet another case* where decentralization and distributed systems outperform centralized services," she wrote, directing people to PurpleAir.
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