Air pollution is invisible, but our exposure to it is deeply personal.
We do not breathe averages. We breathe the air in the room where we sleep, the kitchen where we cook, the street where we run, the road where we cycle, and the office where we spend much of the day. Our exposure changes from one place to another, often within minutes.
AirGradient started with the belief that air quality monitoring should be open, accurate, affordable, and owned by the people using it. If people can see what is in the air around them, they can make informed decisions about where and when they spend time. That matters even more for runners, cyclists, and people exercising outdoors, where route choice, timing, traffic, and weather can all change the pollution they breathe.
The story behind Air Aware Labs began from a similar motivation.
Louise Thomas (CEO) became involved in a school environmental project while raising children in South London and saw how difficult it was for families to access reliable information about the air they breathe. Dr William Hicks (CSO), meanwhile, started running during lockdown and noticed how much air quality could change even along a single route.
Those experiences helped shape AirTrack, the app developed by Air Aware Labs. AirTrack helps people understand outdoor pollution exposure across routes and activities. For runners, cyclists, and commuters, this means air pollution is no longer just a background number from the nearest city station. It becomes part of the actual journey: where you moved, when you moved, and what the air was like along the way.
This is an important shift. Outdoor exposure is highly local. A route beside heavy traffic can look very different from a quieter parallel street. A morning run can involve different pollution levels than the same route later in the day. For people using platforms such as Strava, AirTrack can help connect activity data with air pollution insights, making it easier to understand how daily movement relates to exposure. These same motivations have also shaped our own product development, especially AirGradient Go.
That is why we are pleased that AirGradient ONE, our indoor air quality monitor, is now compatible with the AirTrack app.
AirTrack already helps users understand outdoor pollution exposure across routes and activities. By adding indoor data from AirGradient ONE, users can now build a more complete picture of their exposure across the places they spend time. For us, this partnership is a natural fit and around a shared goal: helping people better understand the air they actually breathe throughout the day.
AirGradient focuses on transparent, reliable monitoring that gives people ownership of their air quality data. AirTrack helps turn environmental data into practical decisions for daily movement and exercise. Both projects are built around the same principle: making the invisible visible.
It also reflects a broader direction we believe air quality monitoring needs to take. Air pollution exposure does not stop at the front door, and it does not only happen outdoors. A person’s real exposure is built across rooms, routes, routines, and decisions. To understand it properly, people need data from the environments they actually move through.
We are overjoyed to partner with AirGradient as true leaders in the field of air pollution data. Our aim is to give our AirTrack users around the world complete insight into their exposure to pollution throughout the day, and how they can best protect their health. Linking to AirGradient data streams takes us one step closer to this and we are excited to see what the partnership holds for the future!
This integration is an important first step. We look forward to continuing our work with Air Aware Labs on deeper integrations in the future, especially around portable monitoring with AirGradient Go.
Personal air quality insight should not be limited to one room, one route, or one data source. It should reflect the real environments people move through every day.
