The Air Quality Collective
We work with a wide range of clients from government agencies to businesses to community groups, educators and curious individuals.
We bridge the gaps between data, information and wisdom to make a real difference in the real world.
We innovate to improve air quality in NZ, Australia and beyond.
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What we work on
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Current and recent projects
Smart Home Air Quality System
By: Ian Longley -What's the Issue? The air in your home can be contaminated from both outside and within. It may be smoke from wood-fires, rural burning, or bushfires. It might be dust or chemicals from industry, or particulates from trucks. But it could also be...
Smoke in the Alexandra-Clyde Basin
By: Ian Longley Through 2025 The Air Quality Collective is working with Otago Regional Council to find out more about the contribution of open burning to smoke in the air in the Alexandra-Clyde Basin. What’s the issue? During winter, smoke from home heating has long...
AirGrid: Sensor grids to map airborne particulate matter across towns and cities
By: Ian Longley To create a map of air quality across a town or city you used to have spend significant resources setting up and maintaining a sparse air quality monitoring network and then apply uncertain models which rely on emissions data you don’t usually have....
Recent blog posts
Latest news and blogs
Sensors we use and why we like them
By: Gustavo Olivares Because of its significant cost, monitoring air quality used to only be available to government agencies. However, over the past decade, cheaper air quality sensors have made it to the market and have been used in earnest by many people, from...
Our commentary and opinion on the EECA report on indoor air quality
By: Ian Longley EECA report: “Indoor combustion in New Zealand homes: health effects and costs” Our commentary and opinion A new report has shown how emissions from gas stoves and unflued gas heaters pose a burden on health that is comparable in size to the burden...
Ventilation in schools (and elsewhere?) – to automate or educate?
By: Ian Longley My first car was a 1976 Ford Escort. As a junior engineer I could lift up the bonnet and see how all the parts connected together to work in a co-ordinated system. And when it didn’t work, I had a good chance of being able to figure out what the...