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I really love the spirit of AirGradient and their products. However they are shooting themselves in the marketing foot by not doing free datastorage for life f
by ck2 3y ago
I really love the spirit of AirGradient and their products.
However they are shooting themselves in the marketing foot by not doing free datastorage for life for their users and therefore competing with PurpleAir which is the closed premium they are competing against.
Google has chosen PurpleAir for their map overlay for air quality, it shouldn't be that exclusive but the reason why is the sheer number of installs.
compare for your area:
https://map.purpleair.com/ https://map.purpleair.com/
vs the emptiness of
https://map.airgradient.com/ https://map.airgradient.com/
I keep telling them they need to just GIVE FOR FREE their units to all public universities in the United States with free data for life reporting, it will change their entire company's presence in the USA and maybe even make Google add them.
Right now many universities, firehouses, stadiums, etc. etc. use WeatherStem for local weather recording/reporting. You know what WeatherStem does NOT have? Air Quality recording/reporting. Imagine if AirGradient gave their units to all the major WeatherStem sites that already have power and internet setup.
look at the pulldown for the WeatherStem open-source data export and imagine AirGradient added for air quality to ALL those hundreds of universities
export pulldown https://forsyth.weatherstem.com/data https://forsyth.weatherstem.com/data
breakout (https://forsyth.weatherstem.com/ https://forsyth.weatherstem.com/)