A personal air-quality tracker that lets you know what you're breathing | Romain Lacombe
How often do you think about the air you're breathing? Probably not enough, says entrepreneur and TED Fellow Romain Lacombe. He introduces Flow: a personal air-quality tracker that fits in your hand and monitors pollution levels in real time. See how this device could help you track and understand pollution street by street, hour by hour -- and empower you to take action to improve your health.
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Holy crap, it's a proper TED talk ...
So your air monitor goes off, what can you do about it? "Sorry guys, gotta run, the air here is terrible"
@PresidentialWinner
5 жыл бұрын
Or like when someone farts, you just sort of accept the fact that for a minute there you are going to have a terrible time
@liquidminds
5 жыл бұрын
I think you can use it to influence your decision-making. When looking for a nice restaurant to eat where you can sit outside, walking by a restaurant knowing that the traffic causes a horrible air-quality, might influence your decision on where to eat. Not sitting in polluted air for an hour once a week might make a difference. But when you're at home and busy and you're not thinking about letting some fresh air in, the device could warn you. Opening the window for a moment doesn't take much time but could help you over time to be more productive and have more energy over all due to breathing better air. I wouldn't let it rule my life, but it's definitely a device that is suited to have you reflect on your daily routines and improve them. If used correctly.
@crazyprayingmantis5596
5 жыл бұрын
@@liquidminds And if your whole city has bad air quality, are you going to move cities? If the place you work, traffic you sit in, etc are you going to rearrange your entire life to find the cleanest air possible and live there? It's a useless device. Just something else for Paranoid people to be worried about, the ones who wear watches that monitor their steps will and get worried because they took 45 steps too less will buy it, the normal people will buy one and fart on it for laughs
@liquidminds
5 жыл бұрын
@@crazyprayingmantis5596 Not knowing, does not make "doing nothing about it" any different. You just know one way and you refuse to confront the truth the other. That's the only difference. No implications about what your actions resulting the new knowledge should be. Calling something stupid, because you see no use for it, only shows a very egocentric view, while the straw-man-fallacy is only used by those who want to ridicule an idea, because they don't feel confident enough to tackle it. And yes, I'm aware that pointing out fallacies is also a fallacy, but in this case it's the main reason why I won't argue this topic anymore. No reason to debate an ego.
@crazyprayingmantis5596
5 жыл бұрын
@@liquidminds I didn't call it stupid, I called it useless.
But how do I get one!
@VexylObby
5 жыл бұрын
plumelabs.com/en/flow/store/
💙😯 How fascinating!! Breathing is something we do without even thinking about it and to empower people in knowing the importance of using a tool to inhale good quality air is AMAZING!!! ✨This inspires me to create a video discussing the gratitude of breathing and breathing correctly 🧐😉💙
@TellitTay
5 жыл бұрын
Adorra Agreed, breathing is the most important thing in for everyone/ thing living. Should not be used for granted and treated carelessly.
@liquidminds
5 жыл бұрын
"breathing correctly" something hardly anyone is taught and most of us don't really do, because, as you say, we do it without thinking about it.
Finally a Ted Talk for an actual product, not just theories! And only $179 too.
@ldno3747
5 жыл бұрын
Only ? That is more then a few months salary in the places this is needed most.
@plumelabs3525
4 жыл бұрын
Hi! Thank you very much for your support. :) A lot has happened in a year and we've worked hard to release new products and features in our app. If you'd like to know more about Flow and the latest developments, check out plumelabs.com: plumelabs.com/en/flow/? Have a great day! :)
£159 wish I could afford one, I'd be showing everyone I pass what they're breathing in
@sarraquanny6613
5 жыл бұрын
If you could maybe they'd get one too
The best show ted talks to imrove our vocabulary and much more
@sarraquanny6613
5 жыл бұрын
Yea I agree
@rajeshsaxena6108
5 жыл бұрын
I am also
@YourFatherVEVO
5 жыл бұрын
"imrove our vocabulary" lmao
@NickwatchesYTtho
5 жыл бұрын
What did you say
@louiscotteta566
5 жыл бұрын
MrNiCK10111 literally have no idea lmao
Amazing!! Want to know more details please:))
@plumelabs3525
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Sana! Thank you very much for your support. A lot has happened in a year and we've worked hard to release new products and features in our app. If you'd like to know more about Flow and the latest developments, check out plumelabs.com: plumelabs.com/en/flow/& If you want to learn more about air pollution we also have a blog: blog.plumelabs.com& Have a great day! :)
So when you get a bad air reading on your personal air monitor, it’s easy...just stop breathing
@sarraquanny6613
5 жыл бұрын
LOL
@tdreamgmail
5 жыл бұрын
Sounds like an AI solution
@MikeTrieu
5 жыл бұрын
Or just don your PM2.5 mask like a rational person. This is already second nature to the Chinese and Indians.
@sarraquanny6613
5 жыл бұрын
@@tdreamgmail That's all the world will be in the future is AI.
Well the release of reasonably priced electric cars would help.
@rodgazinya
5 жыл бұрын
Lol. You must have no idea how the massive batteries are made and the heavy impact they have on the environment. Oh and let's not forget the dispoal of old aged battery units that will eventually poison our earth far more than any burnt fossil fuel.
@thomasd1531
5 жыл бұрын
rodgazinya you don’t get the point: discussed problem is pollution in cities. And here EVs can and will help.
@nettlesoup
5 жыл бұрын
@@rodgazinya Old news. Go and read Tesla's annual Impact Report, they talk about sustainability, environmental impact and recycling. They are leading the way and others will follow. Ask yourself: lead acid battery manufacturing is now safe and we recycle over 99% of the battery material, so why shouldn't we do the same with Li-Ion batteries?
@RubberDucky999
5 жыл бұрын
@@thomasd1531 Isn't EVs just a bandage that will have to be ripped off at some point and then you suddenly created a new pollutant ?
@sarraquanny6613
5 жыл бұрын
That is absolutely true.
Guys, that person is the founder of Plume Labs. Plume Labs forecast air pollution in every part of the world. They have a website, as well as an app on the AppStore and probably also on the PlayStore. Search "plume labs" and you will find the app and the website. They claim to have built the device called Flow and sell it in many countries of the world, aiming to make it available worldwide. Download their app and buy Flow.
well done, good short talk and a nice product
@YanisKyr
5 жыл бұрын
Would you pay $179 to be their product (by sharing all your data)?
I hope it catches on. With environmental sensitivities and asthma on the rise, it would empower a lot of people with data to help but also make others understand that lower levels of exposure affect them. Just cause you're not choking doesn't mean it isn't affecting your health. Having a detector would help prevent but also 'make real' to those who don't suffer what affected people experience.
I'd like to know the accuracy of sensors. How well do they track with a co-located Beta-Attenuation Monitor type?
@plumelabs3525
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Mike! We do use reference monitors, but a different type (optical diffraction of particles). We've been working on a ton of projects and product improvements - including studies to help position Flow on an accuracy spectrum. Here's a look at the results: drive.google.com/file/d/1KLe72CT1bPLIYIfo74y2hN5Mca7bGose/view We also have an article that further explains the accuracy of Flow: plumelabs.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025092554-How-Accurate-is-Flow-& Thank you very much and if you have any other questions, please let us know!
Some years ago there were quite a few crowdfundings for devices to test air/food/water/products/etc. for toxic materials, and ever since I wished they would become a commonplace reality (though I haven't really kept up with them). I hope we'll be successful in getting rid of all the pollution that surrounds us, to spite all of the industries that rely on them to make a buck.
I think microscale sensors like this one can make a major contribution to raising public awareness, building up or supporting air pollution maps, improving city planning and ultimately health care. Nonetheless, the air pollution map at 2:18 already shows that it can be quite hard to "change personal habits" to circumvent pollution. Except for a few green oasis here and there to breathe up and to think of the "good old times" before industrialisation and urbanization. In a nutshell, beside more and more (high tech, high resolution, etc.) mapping of pollution, we may have to focus much more on its prevention - on all scales (such as by using greener technologies or changing our consume). Green Greetings from Germany, Biowohnlich
I was just thinking of making one like this before going to sleep
FINALLY somebody did it!
@plumelabs3525
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Danny! Thank you very much for your support. :) A lot has happened in a year and we've worked hard to release new products and features in our app.If you'd like to know more about Flow and the latest developments, check out plumelabs.com: plumelabs.com/en/flow/? Have a great day! :)
Not wanting to be a downer, but don't we have enough data already? It is time we start to actually DO something about it.
Cool, but since when is TED a marketing platform?
Can someone give the blue prints for this to replicate this or tell me where to get it? Thank you
Amazing idea!
@plumelabs3525
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Abdullah! Thanks for your support :) A lot has happened in a year and we've worked hard to release new products and features in our app. If you'd like to know more about Flow and the latest developments, check out plumelabs.com: plumelabs.com/en/flow/? Have a great day! :)
This is amazing! so innovative
@plumelabs3525
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Ellie! Thanks for your support. :) A lot has happened in a year and we've worked hard to release new products and more features in our app. If you'd like to know more about Flow and the latest developments, check out plumelabs.com: plumelabs.com/en/flow/? Have a great day!
Great idea, but the price is with 179€ to high for a normal person.
@rainhardgroinger3995
5 жыл бұрын
Health is priceless..
Waiting for this technology to get integrated in smartphones.
@sarraquanny6613
5 жыл бұрын
LOL!
@sarraquanny6613
5 жыл бұрын
Smartphones are everything now, you're right
when would be available in India.
@LOvE-tc5gu
5 жыл бұрын
shantanu shukla in south korea, too.
@nesaprotu
5 жыл бұрын
can't you guys alredy see the polution with naked aye?
@sarraquanny6613
5 жыл бұрын
@@nesaprotu haze
@shantanushukla8838
5 жыл бұрын
@@nesaprotu not all polluted gasses can be seen with the naked eye, can u see the harmful gasses coming out or your refrigerator.
@shantanushukla8838
5 жыл бұрын
@@LOvE-tc5gu Yes exactly.
would like to buy that device if its not to expensive :)
Inb4 big companies inject faux-science sponsored content to try to debunk the usefulness of this product. Property Mgmt companies and Realtor Associations are going to hate this device.
Hi everyone hope y’all have a great day today
@aperson2730
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks and you also my friend 🙂 👍
A breath sensor to tell you how your breath is.. now THAT'S something I'd spend money on
Says 5 trillion dollars, shows 5 billion dollars on screen...
It's a neat concept, but I still feel like it needs to be a governmental effort to improve air quality. Whether these kinds of devices are deployed in street lights or embedded into doors, I think more discreet efforts to place these sensors would result in more and better data collection.
@morningglory8559
5 жыл бұрын
Govt is poisoning bus NOW with chemtrails, fluoride, and Round-up. I don't trust them to do ANYTHING!!
everything looks great, only problem is that it costs 180$. i understand the technology might be costly to produce, but this business model doesn't seem to go along with the ultimate goal. maybe they should try to get grants from charities so they can make their products cheaper. they can also gift it to people who work in the streets (cleaners, fro example), to gather more data with cost-effectiveness.
My therapist need a tools to let her know that I'm still breathing
This made me think of Peter joseph rant on the nature of profit. Pokeman gasmasks soon to be sold at your local shop. Pollution is good for the economy..
Please explain to me how that handheld device can detect all known V.O.C,s ??
@plumelabs3525
4 жыл бұрын
Hi! Thanks for your interest in Plume Labs. To learn more about how Flow works, check out this article: plumelabs.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009014973-How-does-Flow-work-& A lot has happened in a year and we have worked to release new products and features in our app - and we will continue to do so in the coming years. Stay tuned! :)
It is a very cool idea. I'm wondering how to predict air pollution before you go outside.
@plumelabs3525
4 жыл бұрын
Hi! Thanks so much for your interest. We have a live air quality map that also includes air pollution predictions across different locations and time periods. We've worked really hard over the past year on upgrades and new features that makes the current version our best so far! Check out the live map here: air.plumelabs.com/en/? It's also available the Plume Labs app: Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plumelabs.air&hl=en& Apple Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/plume-labs-air-quality-app/id950289243& Hope this helps! Have a great day!
It's only 179, I'm buying one.
@ldno3747
5 жыл бұрын
Only ? That is more than a few months salary in the places this is needed most.
My personal air quality tracker also takes phone calls, schedules my appointments and orders me food. She also had a bit part in The Devil Wears Prada.
@sarraquanny6613
5 жыл бұрын
OMG LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!
Geo Engineering is always left out of the conversation
@sarraquanny6613
5 жыл бұрын
Why?
@Sabbatai-Zevi
5 жыл бұрын
@@sarraquanny6613 Because people aren't aware of it or think it's just a theory and not in effect
@JP-sm4cs
5 жыл бұрын
Geo-engineering the atmosphere is like taking paracetamol when you have a fever. It's not enough on its own, our lifestyle needs to change first.
@sarraquanny6613
5 жыл бұрын
@@Sabbatai-Zevi Ahh
Is there a way to know the sources he used for the data in the presentation?
Justo en la contingencia ambiental actual de la Cd. de México
This is desperately needed in Chinese cities. The air quality in the city I’m staying in is constantly around 150 AQI
very good idea.
@plumelabs3525
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Peke! Thanks for your support. :) A lot has happened in a year and we've worked hard to release new products and features in our app. If you'd like to know more about Flow and the latest developments, check out plumelabs.com: plumelabs.com/en/flow/? Have a great day! :)
it has been one year since the video was recorded. what is the progress now?
@sarraquanny6613
5 жыл бұрын
Whaaaaaat?
Finally! Get rid of diesel and the morons who blast black clouds at pedestrians!
As long as it doesn't involve tubes into my nose I'm fine with the tracker.
@evanmcc2000
5 жыл бұрын
No full on Aeon Flux?
hey would be fun to sell air? yes first make fillters, wait a few years coz you know we have fillters so we dont need ruduce carbon emmision then can sell air later.
So you can be told the air your breathing is bad for you. What next? Stop? Sounds legit.
Coolioses Moses
I didn't know that TED was a sales marketing platform.
@hugodsa89
5 жыл бұрын
Corl Franco it's a bit different though, not like they recorded as a talk and published it in every major platform. I think the product was completely unnecessary to the talk
It is sad to hear that people will do something about air quality ONLY when they see what they breath. I am all for change and any bit helps. How much is he profiting from this?
@Takemura76
5 жыл бұрын
Mason Ornythology why are you interested in how much he is profiting?
We need the green energy culture this is the solve! Bcz most of the solves depend on this point! So thumps up for the green energy! :) #Aber_Afeef #Humanity_First
Bdya
@sarraquanny6613
5 жыл бұрын
What?
@DeepakAer
5 жыл бұрын
@@sarraquanny6613 means nice
@sarraquanny6613
5 жыл бұрын
@@DeepakAer Ahh thx
I'm confused... I believe that Flow is a great product that could actually make things move. If the data was made available to the public, or at least the scientists... Flow actually bill the data access from 500$ to 3k$/month, in addition to the 170$ they ask for the device. They went from a nice startup that could save the world to a company that want to make money off climate change talks to me.
@paulmetdebbie447
5 жыл бұрын
Where to find this information about the data access costs?
@Darth_Pro_x
5 жыл бұрын
@@paulmetdebbie447 i would also like to know
@plumelabs3525
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Matthieu! The data access you mentioned are for businesses or institutions that wish to have more granular, tailored-fit data and dashboards using our API. For the public, we have a live air pollution map available to everyone for free - and we have worked really hard over the past year on upgrades and new features to make it our best version so far! :) Check out the live map or download the Plume Labs app here: Live Air Pollution Map (Website): air.plumelabs.com/en/? Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plumelabs.air&hl=en& Apple Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/plume-labs-air-quality-app/id950289243? Thank you very much and hope this helped!
✊✊✊✊✊✊✊ Extinction Rebellion ✊✊✊✊✊✊✊
Filter it at the source!
Ok this is just fucking sad now, anything but actually helping the environment
اذكر الله يذكرك
NEVER ADMIT YOU JUST FARTED.
It's great he talks about global change and using their device to monitor and contribute the data they need. Want he hasn't said is that the device will cost you $180. Meaning the only people who can afford it are westerners (and not many of them), whereas it is in countries like China or India that this is most needed now and it's priced out of range. So not so much Global change really, just much of the same information almost every western city already has at its disposal. Except now you can buy a device that cost's a lot and makes them money to ease your western sense of guilt.
Just giving them a buy to continue polluting as long as the people, not other living things, are upwind. Pollution must end in total. Good idea but is only vanity for the rich.
👏👏👏👏👏👏
@plumelabs3525
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Nathalia! Thank you very much for your support. :) A lot has happened in a year and we've worked hard to release new products and features in our app. If you'd like to know more about Flow and the latest developments, check out plumelabs.com: plumelabs.com/en/flow/? Have a great day! :)
🤔 I enjoyed that a lot more than I should have 😁
How do we stop the chemtrails that are being sprayed by planes/ jets. That can change things constantly. Thanks for your efforts, but, we need to stop the oligarchs from destroying our lives with their chemical weapons. No one seems to be addressing this issue. Criminals belong in jail without the ability to buy their way out!
@ipodgamer99
5 жыл бұрын
Haha
Shut up and take my money! Wait.. shouldnt the governement pay me to track this thing around? (How is that thing called?)
I understand why you are so concerned about the air quality but I think you are focusing on the wrong sources for the poor air quality what about the Chemtrails the geoengineering the barium and aluminum that are being sprayed into our skies at the we are breathing in why don't you get tested for those things to see how heavy they are in your bloodstream we need to focus on that not anything else is that is the most important thing right now
@eugenes9751
5 жыл бұрын
Wow.... You're kind of an idiot.
@nixtblack
5 жыл бұрын
@Band & Stand: Are you suggesting we ignore scientifically proven air pollutants such as car emissions in favour of a fringe conspiracy theory? Cars are definitely in existence and they are provably damaging health, along with factory pollutants. Even if chem-trails are a thing, why should we ignore other pollutants?
@YARPZProductions
5 жыл бұрын
nixtblack come on use some common sense she's not saying it's not important, if we really acknowledged what's going on in our skies with geoengineering and HAARP we'd be mortified.
@eugenes9751
5 жыл бұрын
@@YARPZProductions so you mean "if the conspiracies were true", we'd be mortified. Good thing they're not.
@YARPZProductions
5 жыл бұрын
Eugene S Fair enough man that's your opinion, the word "conspiracy theory" is usually used to stop people questioning the validity of such a subject that seems far out or far fetched but has an element truth. Yea can't deny there's some crazy conspiracies out there and a lot of misinformation but that's where discernment comes in
Ellon mask reacted haha .....
@sarraquanny6613
5 жыл бұрын
Ellon Musk, isn't it??
@krishnamohan2351
5 жыл бұрын
What?
@sarraquanny6613
5 жыл бұрын
@@krishnamohan2351 I said the same thing.
Plastic bags are wrecking our environment over time
This is literally fear mongering to sell a product that serves no purpose. I thought TED was better than this.
@Pigdogg24
5 жыл бұрын
Fart detector
Good idea, poor execution. Nobody wants their location data in the hands of anyone but themselves.
look at the apple maps app, already has it in the lower right corner of the map.... has been for a while now lmao
@sarraquanny6613
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah
@Gawain_7
5 жыл бұрын
Apple maps based on dated government sources and updates are very unreliable and sparse
@michaelknight4099
5 жыл бұрын
You didn't pay attention.
@sarraquanny6613
5 жыл бұрын
@@michaelknight4099 LOL
Oh boy, let'a have more government control; because we certainly know and trust that government has our best interests at heart, right?
@YourFatherVEVO
5 жыл бұрын
What are you even talking about?
@prestonrobert2625
5 жыл бұрын
He is saying this guy is a fraud. He is.
@jefflindeman
5 жыл бұрын
your father ~shhhh... it's ok, everything is gonna be alright. Go back to sleep, don't worry, be happy. Sorry to disturb; I'll try and keep it down. It's ok...really..
@YourFatherVEVO
5 жыл бұрын
go eat rat poison
Now this is just like a pysramid scheme.
@NickwatchesYTtho
5 жыл бұрын
How?
Man is held captive to the fear of death... And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. Hebrews:2:15 Christ is the answer. He conquered it.
This is Theranos all over again. To make this technology small, cheap, and capable of detecting multiple types of chemicals is currently impossible. The cities use monitors the size of a phone booth, but this man can magically do the same thing in something the size of a wallet? Complete BS.
@jrisner6535
5 жыл бұрын
My university (Sheffield) has been testing the two and the accuracy of their product is surprisingly good - generally less than 20% variance
@eugenes9751
5 жыл бұрын
@@jrisner6535 What is it capable of measuring?
@MikeTrieu
5 жыл бұрын
I don't think it's impossible. The very accurate Purple Air II particulate sensor isn't much bigger and that uses sensor modules with active fans to draw in air samples. There are more compact sensors that only use thermal updraft effects to accomplish the same thing, although their accuracy suffers a bit. The rest of the chemosensors are just tiny little canisters that could easily fit in a tubular form-factor like that. The bad part is that those sensors have a limited lifespan before they're eventually "poisoned" by other elements that cause the readings to drift. Unless they make those sensors modular and replaceable, this is yet another e-waste ticking time bomb.
Bioengineering SUCKS
This Is nothing more than a religion, based on beleving things that are not Facts
@Jerimboplaysgames
5 жыл бұрын
What, climate change? If you’re denying climate change, go and read the recent IPCC report.
@ademenoch1322
5 жыл бұрын
@@Jerimboplaysgames what i am trying to say is that you should not have so much faith in what they say. and if you want to do that, don't blindly trust what a group is saying, but investigate whether what they say is true or maybe not. blind faith is suffering. "all history is full of it" as a warning example
@ademenoch1322
5 жыл бұрын
remember this; a wise advice: climate change is the new god of this world!
@ademenoch1322
5 жыл бұрын
@@Jerimboplaysgames and indeed we have a climate problem, with the name: that we have a moral problem with each other and with the truth, that is your climate problem. and they are not going to solve that for us. because they like how things are going in the world. you must not forget that they have everything to lose, and they are aware