Be Air Smart

Air Quality Sensor Program

Ready to Measure Air Pollution in your Area?

We are proud to collaborate with the Clean Air Force of Central Texas, and Austin FC |Atlas to support air quality education by providing free Particulate Matter (PM) sensors to local organizations throughout Central Texas.

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One of Air Central Texas’s primary goals is to ensure that everyone in the region is ‘Air Aware’, which is the Air Central Texas way of saying educated on local air quality.

This program empowers children, one of the most sensitive groups to air pollution, with the tools to better understand air quality by using a hyper-local outdoor particulate matter (PM) sensor that provides real-time information on air quality conditions.

Our ideal partners would be Schools, Libraries, Youth Education Organizations, Children’s Hospitals, Clinics, and Daycares/After-School Programs located within the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos MSA (Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis, and Williamson counties).


Hyper-Local, Real Time Data For Everyone!
Air Sensor

About the Sensors

The Be Air Smart program uses PurpleAir© sensors that provide real-time PM concentrations with built-in Wi-Fi that enables the device to transmit data to the PurpleAir map, where it is stored and made publicly available online. At a minimum you will need:

  • Secure Location Outdoors
  • Stable Power Source 
  • Reliable Wi-Fi Connect

The following video provides more information on the sensor and gives tips for installation. 

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Potential Sensor Use Cases

Environmental Education & Awareness

  • Provide children and parents with a tool to better understand the air they breathe
  • Create projects for students to become familiar with air quality 
  • Educate students on the importance of caring for their environment.

Environmental Health

  • Learn if there is a quality issue and take steps to improve it
  • Measure PM levels at your location to better understand when PM levels are higher or lower 
  • Study PM levels over time – Learn if PM levels are improving or deteriorating

Fill Out the Form Below for a Sensor! (scroll down in the square for the "Start" button)

Terms of Use

To be eligible to use the PurpleAir Sensor, users must agree to the following conditions:

  • Only use the sensor for its intended purpose of measuring local outdoor PM concentrations
  • Have reliable power source
  • Have stable Wi-Fi Connection
  • Agree to operate the sensor continuously while sensor is on loan
  • Agree to install and register the sensor yourself
  • Agree to check that the sensor is reporting and to rectify any reporting issues
  • Agrees to inform Air Central Texas (ACT) if the location of the sensor changes or if the contact representative changes
  • Use for the sensor is valid for one year. At the end of the term, the sensor and any associated items will be returned. This agreement may be renewed upon approval by the program and the User.