Community Monitoring

Text explanation · Proposed, not in operation

Proposed community monitoring journey

A proposed approach: a low-cost sensor would first be checked beside a trusted official monitor; a host such as a school or shop would be agreed; the sensor would be maintained; results would be reported with their limits for community review. This is a plan. No equipment has been deployed.

• Check beside a trusted monitor — A sensor would run next to an official monitor first, to see how closely it agrees.
• Agree a host — A willing host, such as a school or shop, would be chosen with permission.
• Maintain — Sensors would be cleaned, checked and replaced on a schedule.
• Report with limits — Results would be published with the method, the dates and what they cannot show.

Proposal only. No sensors have been installed and no readings are being collected.

Proposed. Nothing here describes equipment that exists today.

Why consider community monitoring?

Daily city readings do not describe every neighbourhood. Carefully designed community monitoring could help explore gaps in available information, but its readings would not automatically be regulatory-grade.

A possible host journey

A future programme might invite people to learn about hosting, consider whether it suits them, set up a monitor using validated guidance, and share clearly qualified observations. No device or host service is available now.

What still needs review

The equipment and how a future programme would install, check, and support it have not been confirmed. Privacy and location safeguards also need to be designed before any host sign-up.

• Privacy information

Community and official readings

If community readings are published, their source, time, units, location detail, and quality limits should be clear. They must remain distinct from daily CPCB city bulletins and should not be called live or regulatory-grade without evidence.