Understanding how Places and Locations work will help you organize your monitors correctly.

Places: Your main space

When you first create an account in the AirGradient Dashboard, you create a Place.

A Place represents a broader environment or project where your monitors are deployed.

For example, your home, an office building, a school campus or city-wide air quality project.

Think of a Place as a container that holds all your monitors.

Multiple Places

You can have multiple Places to manage different setups separately. You can switch between Place using the Place Selector drop-down:

For example, different households or separate research or deployment projects.

You can create multiple Places using the instructions here: Create a New Place and Move Locations Between Places in the AirGradient Dashboard

Locations: Where each monitor is installed

Inside a Place, each monitor is assigned a Location.

A Location describes the specific physical position of a monitor.

Examples:

• Living room
• Bedroom
• Office meeting room
• Rooftop
• Street corner

This helps you understand where each data point is coming from.

How monitors are structured

Each monitor in your dashboard is made up of:

• Hardware: the physical devices (Hardware in the sidebar menu)

• Location: where the devices records their data (Locations in the sidebar menu)

Together, they form a complete monitor setup inside your Place.

When you connect a monitor using the onboarding flow, the Hardware entity is created and a Location is created and auto-assigned to that monitor.

The significance of this is that a single monitor can be linked to different Locations over time.

This is useful when you want to move a device to a new environment temporarily but keep datasets separate and clean.

Let’s say you move a monitor from your Living Room to your Bedroom.

Instead of using the same Location, you can:

• Go to Locations → Admin → Go to location details → Edit Locations
• Click Linked Monnitor
• Select Remove the monitor from the current Location (this unlinks it)
• Click Save

• Create a new Location (Locations > Add New Location)
• Click Linked Monitor
• Select the same monitor to link it to the new Location

You can also move a locations across Places while preserving the historical data: Create a New Place and Move Locations Between Places in the AirGradient Dashboard

What happens to the data?

• The old Location keeps its historical data
• The new Location starts a fresh dataset
• Only the Location currently linked to the monitor will show live data