Specialized monitoring vehicles have been collecting detailed air quality data throughout Bakersfield neighborhoods since June as part of a statewide initiative to address pollution in underserved communities.
The fleet is part of a $27 million Statewide Mobile Monitoring Initiative launched by the California Air Resources Board in partnership with Aclima, a California-based tech company focused on improving public health and reducing emissions.
“We have specialized sensors that we built and deployed for integration into the vehicles. Those sensors measure all the different pollutants that are important to us, and we take a measure of them every second,” said Davida Herzl, CEO and co-founder of Aclima…