Monitor Pollution Levels with Your Mobile Phone

With the cellular phone add-on "Squirrel", it is now possible to monitor what's in the air around you. The personal pollution sensor allows users to grasp a better idea the pollution levels in a specific location directly from your cellphone. Making use of a cellphones LCD display, dedicated software application uses bluetooth wireless technology to transmit pollution level data to your cellphone. The device measures carbon monoxide and ozone polluting substances. The information is not only sent to your phone, it is also beamed an Internet database which monitors worldwide pollution. The device is expected to also detect and monitor Nitrogen oxide and sulphur oxide levels in the future, and also other measurements including temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure.