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San Francisco commissioners hear BrightLine's community sensor program as wildfire smoke and local pollution surface neighborhood disparities
Summary
BrightLine told the Commission on the Environment it has deployed 19 low‑cost air sensors across Chinatown, SoMa, Tenderloin, Potrero Hill and the Richmond to fill monitoring gaps, produced preliminary data showing higher baseline PM2.5 in some neighborhoods and said it will publish quarterly reports and continue community outreach.
BrightLine has installed 19 low‑cost air‑quality sensors in San Francisco neighborhoods it identified as disproportionately burdened by pollution, a project presented to the San Francisco Commission on the Environment at its March meeting.
"It's the first of its kind serving frontline communities," BrightLine program coordinator Daniella Cortez told the commission, describing a network targeted to intersections and housing where reference monitors miss local hot spots. The sensors, manufactured by Clarity and powered by small solar panels and cellular connections, feed an OpenMap that is updated hourly (tinyurl.com/brightlineaq), Cortez said.
The project began with planning in January 2020, but installations were delayed by the pandemic and…
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