tirupati the indian institute of technology tirupati has developed an android application airpollution visualizer to visualize air pollutants using augmented reality which it claims is the first of its kind mobile application on android platform in the world speaking to toi dr sridhar chimalakonda pointed out that governments across the globe have been taking various measures to reduce air pollution bringing awareness about environmental pollution among the public plays a major role in controlling air pollution as the programs proposed by governments require the support of the publicelaborating on how useful the android mobile app designed by iittirupati dr sridhar underlined that though information on air quality is present on multiple portals of the state and central pollution control boards which also provide air quality index people hardly visit these websites in realitytaking all these factors into account first year b tech student nobel saji mathews supported by dr sridhar chimalakonda from risha research in intelligent software and human analytics lab at the department of computer science engineering in collaboration with prof suresh jain have designed airpollution visualizer android mobile application using augmented reality techniquesair considers the air quality measures by central pollution control board in a locality that is detected by the users gps or in a locality of users choice and visualizes 6 important air pollutants present in the locality which includes pm10 pm 25 no2 so2 co o3nh3 by clicking on the particular pollutant complete information about the pollutant and its health hazards will be accessible on the mobile phone which will be very useful for the people noted dr sridhar chimalakondawe have collated pollution data from 130 odd stations linked to the cpcb across the country from jan 1 2019 to may 2020 users can visualize data of any particular date between the period and even compare the data the idea here is through air we intend to create awareness among the public on different pollutants their sources and the subsequent health hazards in an interactive way added dr sridhar chimalakondawithin moments after the infoclip was made available on youtube platform on saturday more than 6000 clicks have been recorded and the iittirupati team which developed the first of its kind android mobile app to track pollution in a more interactive way is mighty pleased with their first success