MetOne BAM 1020 station
Publishing data on the World Air Quality Index maps (aqicn.org and waqi.info) is free and simple.
Both professional and DIY air quality monitoring stations are accepted.
However DIY stations, such as "luftdaten", go through an additional data quality control, to ensure high quality data.
Once your data is validated, you will get a dedicated page for your station where you can see the real-time data, the Air Quality and weather forecast, as well as the historical data - all for free.
If you do not have any monitoring station, and would like to get one, check our GAIA Air Quality monitoring stations. If you prefer a DIY station, check the GAIA A08.
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Uploading the data
There are three cases in order to upload your data into the map:
Either you have a known Air Quality monitoring station (IQAir, Oizom, Luftdaten, PurpleAir, U-Rad, LUN, ...), or a known Weather Station with an air quality sensor module (Weather Link, Eco-Witt, c...). In which case, you only need to tell us your station details, such as the ID/Name. We already have adapters for those stations.
Either you already have a website (or a feed such as thing-speak) from which we can collect the data from your stations. In this case our system will periodically load your page, extract the data and then republish it on our map. Check the feed examples for website examples.
Either you do not have a website, but you have a station, and you would like to "push" the data directly to our system. In this case, you will need to write a small program to "post" your station data via our upload API. We have code example for Arduino and Python. The code samples are available from the upload API page.
If you fall in the two first categories (have a known station or a website), or if you have any doubts, send us a message using the form below. If you fall in the second category, and want to programmatically post the data via our upload API, check our data upload scripts and API page.
Contact form
Data Validation
If you own a luftdaten or similar low cost sensor, you can check the air quality data validation service:
For example, for the "luftdaten" sensor 84804, you can check the page aqicn.org/data-feed/validation/bg/#/luftdaten/84804
The data validation and qualification is also done automatically once a day.
