Pigeons wearing backpacks are monitoring air pollution in London

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>A flock of pigeons complete with sensor-carrying lightweight backpacks are helping consumers track air pollution in London&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The birds have technology on-board to not only monitor air quality&comma; but are also reporting on it live by tweeting what they find in the skies above the capital&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Users can also tweet the birds giving their location and receive a report back on the air quality in that area&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The three day scheme has been created by Plume Labs&comma; a technology firm that specialises in helping people track and reduce exposure to air pollution&comma; has created pigeonairpatrol&period;com where London residents can view a live map&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Romain Lacombe&comma; the CEO at Plume Labs said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Air pollution is a huge environmental health issue&comma; killing 10&comma;000 people every year in London alone&period; Putting air sensors on the back of pigeons goes beyond raising awareness of this problem and helps Londoners understand the impact of pollution in an accessible&comma; tangible and immediate way&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Lacombe added that a device for humans to wear that monitors air quality was also being planned&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;1458145941-465f81bdf295a37833dc13afd8a5833c-600x221&period;jpg" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-87448"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;1458145941-465f81bdf295a37833dc13afd8a5833c-600x221-300x111&period;jpg" alt&equals;"1458145941-465f81bdf295a37833dc13afd8a5833c-600x221" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"111" class&equals;"alignright size-medium wp-image-87448" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;DigitasLBi is also helping us to recruit beta testers who will be the first to access our devices&comma; to build a collaborative&comma; human-powered air quality monitoring network across London&comma;” he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Twitter is also involved in this aspect of the scheme&comma; and their head of creative agency development in the UK&comma; Helen Lawrence&comma; said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Twitter brings you closer to what matters to you the most&comma; in real time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Over the last 10 years Twitter has been used in ways that we would never have imagined – rivers that Tweet when the water level rises&comma; sharks that Tweet when they’re swimming near shore and now pigeons that Tweet live pollution information&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Real time information&comma; direct to your mobile is hugely useful&comma; but add pigeons into that mix and you’ve got something really powerful&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e49402656f6">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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