Akash Kulkarni

Respirer Living Sciences

Respirer Living Sciences is driven by the vision to improve citizens' quality of life through data democratization and participatory urbanism. This involves building IoT solutions that enable the effective monitoring and measurement of key parameters like air quality, waste, water etc. that in-turn empower policymakers and industry players to take meaningful action. Our flagship product is atmos, India's first scientifically validated air quality monitoring solution. atmos is an affordable, sensor-based real-time air quality device (and network) designed to help change makers like the government take better-informed decisions around air quality, and enable high-emission industry players to improve (and report) their SDG / ESG performance. Through strategic partnerships with the foremost scientific research organizations, we have played an integral role in establishing Make-In-India IoT sensor-based technologies as the go-to solutions to bridge the affordability and scalability gap in countries like India. We are an ambitious group of climate scientists and engineers currently focused on expanding our IoT and Big Data expertise to address other key societal challenges including the assessment of healthcare technologies being used in the latest COVID-19 response.