AQcalc got mentioned in the “Green Living in DC blog!” (see their article: Explosive Wildfires awaken Fresh Air Consciousness)
Note that the Air Quality Egg(TM) with dust sensor mentioned in the article (and supported by AQcalc) is already available for purchase from Wicked Devices. Like some recent CES announced products, It is an Internet of Things device (it reports crowdsourced pollution sensor readings to the Internet from all over the world to a public database) and has the advantage of also being somewhat usable outdoors (when shielded), but it’s currently still a kit. (On a coolness note, it is based on Nanode, a low-cost variant of the Arduino Open Source hardware prototyping platform. All of the Air Quality Egg hardware designs have been open sourced as well, so you can incorporate their schematics into your projects or products. Update: This means you could use AQEs as a platform to add wireless, crowdsourced seismic sensors as we suggest in this later blog post.) As their website points out, they done “no consumer testing” whatsoever. It’s very clear things (and other companies) are rapidly moving in this field, so we expect this to eventually change.
The more polished, consumer-ready dust sensor currently supported by AQcalc, which costs about the same or less in its different supported models, is the Dylos, available off Amazon. We’re plan to support additional sensors with improved interoperability as these devices come to market.
As the Green Living in DC blog article points, regardless of whether or not you own one of the supported sensors, AQcalc is the app you want to have if you’re living near a wildfire, such as the recent Colby Fire near Los Angeles .
(Legal disclaimer: Air Quality Egg(TM) is a trademark of Wicked Devices, which is not affiliated with Acculation, Inc.)