Every year, across every border on this planet, air pollution causes more than 7 million premature deaths. The magnitude of the problem should inspire sweeping change, but it doesn’t.

Every new pollution peak causes new outrage, promptly extinguished into inaction as the news cycle rolls ahead. We care and hope for change, but feel ill-equipped to face a challenge too complex, bigger than us, like it should be a problem for another person or another time.

We see an information problem, we are solving that.

We see that with the right information at the right time, wisdom can take over panic. And when wisdom has the upper hand, the urgency of the problem can be channeled into imagining solutions rather than endings.iv block.

We built Ambee at a IoT hackathon, at Amazon Development center in Bangalore. We won the hackathon, but little did we know that our lives were about to change.

The first Ambee prototype was built using LinkitOne Grove starter Kit and MediaTek on an Arduino board. These had edge computing, realtime data aggregation and visualization on a dashboard with a app prototype improving experiential living right during the hackathon, way, way ahead of everyone else. Ambee, then, went on to help save real-lives of children who were affected by Air Pollution.