Ziv Lautman wants to make air-pollution numbers “personal.” Just like weather websites and mobile apps can tell you the temperature outside, Lautman’s BreezoMeter can update you on how clean the air is.
BreezoMeter can even drill down to determine the air quality on the street where you live — or the street where you might want to live.
The latter point served as the “light bulb” moment for the young company, which launched its mobile app in June and then in September won the “Startup Open” contest in Israel. Lautman’s partner in BreezoMeter, Ran Korber, was looking to move. His wife was pregnant and suffered from asthma. So finding a place where the air was clear was paramount.
The problem was that existing real-estate websites don’t give that kind of information, Lautman tells ISRAEL21c. “Even in the US, where air-pollution levels are publicly available on the website of the Environmental Protection Agency, it’s only available on a city level, not by neighborhood or by block.”
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