Before getting into the nitty-gritty of Air Quality API, it is crucial to understand ‘What is an API?’

Technically, API stands for Application Programming Interface. In simple words, APIs allow applications to communicate with each other. Generally speaking, when people say “an API,” they mean an API that returns data in CSV, XML, or JSON format. The API is not the database or the webserver, but it is the interface that authorizes the server’s access points to the users.

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In this post, we will learn more about Ambee’s API. Ambee is an environmental intelligence platform that enables tech businesses with the right information and the right time to enhance product value. Ambee serves many industries from business tech, GovTech, healthcare, digital therapeutics, mobility, insurance, academia, and more.

Ambee has a collection of APIs for different environmental data. Namely: 

• Air quality API
• Pollen API
• Weather API
• Fire API
• Soil API
• Water vapor API

Now that we have a basic understanding of what an API is. Let’s look into air quality API. 

What is an Air quality API? 

Air quality API returns real-time granular air quality levels for global and regional locations. The air quality data provides insights on air pollutants – PM2.5, PM10, CO, SO2, NO2 & O3. These air pollutants in high concentrations can be toxic to your health. Air pollution data form solutions, products, and policies to inform, motivate, and safeguard their customers.

Air pollution is known to be the root cause of 1 in 8 deaths in the world. Low air quality can cause and aggravate respiratory ailments, wheezing, fatigue, and more. Poor air quality is also the primary contributor to global warming and climate change. Monitoring air pollution levels helps identify pollution dense areas that can help form policies to regulate air quality. 

Ambee realizing the graveness of poor air quality, has collected data from multiple sources with statistical interference to ensure the highest order of accuracy and availability.

Why choose Ambee? 

Ambee use AI algorithms based on machine learning and mathematical models. Ambee prioritizes data validation and accuracy through historical data and factors like temperature, wind, solar radiance, etc. to provide:

1. Global Coverage: Ambee data coverage spreads across the world, with new countries being added every week.

2. Data Accuracy: Data validation is a high priority to ensure the delivery of accurate data is seamless.

3. Quick Response: Sign up and test our API for FREE to get Ambee’s air quality data delivered in real-time in CSV, XML, or JSON for a developer-friendly experience.

4. Detailed Report: Air quality data provides detailed insights on air pollutants such as PM2.5, PM10, CO, O3, NO2, SO2, and more.

5. Real-time data: Raw air quality data is made available in real-time as per the user’s location.

6. Easy to integrate: Ambee’s air quality data is highly developer-friendly and easy to integrate. It is available in easy-to-use formats such as JSON, XML, CSV that can be easily used in your program, application, or product.

To empower and inform your customer with air quality data, sign up now, and get the API for free.