India, Dec. 3 -- The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is preparing to roll out an independent, AI-enabled air-quality monitoring system that will operate parallel to the Central Pollution Control Board's (CPCB) existing network, offering neighbourhood-scale data for the first time. The system will be in place in six months, said officials.

The platform, developed with IIT Kanpur, will use a network of low-cost, compact sensors across Mumbai to build a hyperlocal pollution map that captures fluctuations missed by the city's 28 Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations (CAAQMS).

Each CAAQMS often fails to reflect sharp local spikes around construction corridors, traffic choke points or industrial pockets.

Officials said ...