The Calp City Council has announced the installation of weather and air quality stations that will monitor pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide and ozone in real time. The data will be integrated into the local Smart City platform, with the aim of providing useful information to both residents and tourists for planning outdoor activities on beaches and streets.
Open data for more sustainable tourism 🌿
With an investment of 47,000 euros from European funds, the sensors will be connected to the municipality's smart ecosystem. The network will allow pollution indices and weather conditions to be viewed in real time through public panels. The initiative aims to align tourism development with environmental transparency criteria, facilitating informed decisions about outdoor exposure without relying on distant stations or outdated data.
Goodbye to blaming the wind for allergies 😂
Finally, residents will be able to know if that eye itch is due to ozone or because the neighbor on the fifth floor smoked on the balcony. And tourists, instead of relying on their sense of smell to choose a beach, will consult an app. The next step will be a sensor that measures the complaint level in bars, but that would require another European fund. Meanwhile, Calp becomes the capital of transparent air, even if it's through a screen.