Google Environment APIs

Discover the next frontier in sustainability with Google Maps Platform’s new Environment APIs: Solar, Air Quality, and Pollen. Localyse, your trusted Google Premier Partner, enables you to tap into artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze real-time data on solar potential, air quality, and pollen levels. These powerful APIs serve as building blocks for creating tools that not only inform but also inspire action toward a greener, cleaner future.

Google’s Solar API leverages AI to assess the solar potential of over 320 million buildings in 40 countries, making sustainable energy decisions easier for both businesses and homeowners.

The Air Quality API consolidates real-time data from diverse sources, delivering reliable air quality metrics, crucial for healthcare and transportation sectors.

Lastly, the Pollen API provides localized pollen counts and actionable tips, aiding those affected by seasonal allergies.

Together, these new Google Maps Platform APIs offer data-driven insights for a more sustainable and adaptive future.

Solar API

Harness the untapped potential of solar energy with Google’s Solar API. This revolutionary tool uses AI to evaluate the solar viability of over 320 million buildings globally. From remote rooftop measurements to shading analysis, the API empowers solar installers to minimize site visits, boost proposal accuracy, and expedite the delivery of customer proposals like never before.

What can you do with the Solar API?

Create detailed installation plans using highly-accurate images of each customer’s roof.
Gather key rooftop data, like measurements, elevation, shading, and building outlines.
Quickly identify the best solar opportunities for your business.
Design solar panel arrays faster with suggested placements that cover the sunniest parts of the roof first.
Get an hourly breakdown of sunlight and shade on a roof, based on year-round weather data.
Estimate rooftop solar energy potential and savings.

Air Quality API

Transform how you understand and respond to air quality with Google’s Air Quality API. Designed for real-world challenges, this robust API aggregates data from multiple sources like government monitoring stations, sensors, and meteorological data. The result? Reliable and hyper-local air quality information visualized through heatmaps and in-depth pollutant details. Businesses can now empower themselves and their users to make informed decisions, advocate for change, and reduce environmental impact.

What can you do with the Air Quality API?

Provide a full 30 days of hourly air quality information, complete with pollutant data and recommendations.
Choose from over 70 local indexes, or use the universal air quality index.
Offer recommendations to help reduce exposure to air pollutants — including personalized tips for groups like athletes and the elderly.
Display detailed information about pollutants including the dominant pollutant, concentrations, sources, and effects.
Incorporate air quality data into treatment plans and symptom trackers to help patients more actively manage their health.
Manage the health of buildings more effectively by programming HVAC systems to respond to local air quality.
Help people choose routes for hiking, cycling, or driving that avoid upcoming pollution.

Pollen API

Stay ahead of allergy season with Google’s Pollen API. Built to deliver current pollen information for the most common allergens, this API is your definitive source for localized pollen count data, heatmap visualizations, and detailed plant allergen information. By translating a wealth of climatological data into actionable tips, this tool enables companies to offer vital, health-improving guidance to their user base.

What can you do with the Pollen API?

Access a global index for comparing pollen levels across different areas.
Get detailed information for tree, grass, and weed pollen along with up to 15 species around the globe.
Offer a daily pollen forecast for a specific location for up to 5 days.
Provide insights about how to cope with different allergens.
Provide personalized recommendations for patients based on the day’s pollen forecast.
Automatically take action when driving through high-pollen areas, like turning on the air purifier or closing windows.
Integrate multi-day pollen forecasts into your travel app or website so allergy sufferers can prepare for when they arrive.
Use personalized pollen data to improve supply chain management, demand planning, and market analysis.

Bart Suy

Localyse

In the future more and more people will check the quality of the air as they would check the weather. Air quality and pollen API are now part of Google Maps Platform and offer a rich set of air quality and pollen data providing historical, current and forecast data. This opens new possibilities to develop solutions to mitigate the risk of being exposed to harmful air quality and allergetic pollen.

Imagine the following use case, a seasonal allergy patient will receive a notification on e.g. a wearable device, app,… when the pollen level at the users location is high so the allergy sufferer can take measures to reduce exposure (e.g. close the window) or use preventative medicine. Now feasible with pollen and air quality API from Google Maps.