Products | AQ-Hub

AQ-Hub is a software infrastructure developed by DRAXIS that enables the collection, management and provision of geospatial data, high quality services and easy to use applications. The innovative solution that AQ-Hub offers is to provide developers with a centralized integration layer for acquiring air pollution parameters and simulations from weather and air quality models that can be easily adapted to any third-party system they develop. AQ-Hub exposes a RESTful API, through which third-party (web and mobile) applications can access a plethora of air quality-related variables. The API interface encapsulates the complexity EO data management and forecast and decision algorithms offering an easy to integrate environment for the external clients such as AQ-Hub Backend Component. AQ-hub also supports DRAXIS’ Envi4All and hackAIR platforms.

The HackAir app which is offered upon the AQ-Hub

Indicatively a list of data offered by AQ-Hub are:

• Official open data from ground-based air quality monitoring stations all around the globe.
• Measurements from IoT networks and sensors.
• Model simulations and forecast with assimilation of satellite data from Copernicus European EO program and ground-based measurements.
• Crowdsourcing data through subjective perceptions of citizens and major social media platforms.

Indicatively a list of services offered by AQ-Hub (and are also included in the DRAXIS’s Envi4All product) are:

• Real-time air quality information. Easy-to-understand information on the current air quality over a wide range of locations globally.
• Air pollution trends estimated by long-term time-series data that are generated both by measurements from official ground-based stations and environmental sensors with varying frequencies, leading to streams that may either follow a well-established format (i.e. XML or JSON) or be totally custom. 
• Copernicus regional air quality forecast data. 
• 3-day high resolution regional air pollution forecasts produced by scientifically validated meteorological model coupled with chemistry.
• A significant number of Air Quality Indices (AQIs) such as Envi4All index. The latter is an innovative Air Quality Index that takes into account human specific sensitivities and interests. Its design is based on existing global and European health and air quality standards and on epidemiological studies.
• Personalized index & recommendations related to the human exposure to air quality. 
• Interactive map vizualization of all the collected (e.g. crowdsourcing data) and estimated data. 

The API (Application Programming Interfaces) interface hides the complex processing steps, details and computations of the above services by exposing a list of meaningful RESTful API resources to interact with, offering an all-in-one solution and easy way for integration with other systems.