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Technology Gives Bad Smells a Data Layer
· New York time
Smells from rubbish dumps and industrial facilities are being monitored more carefully with technology, the BBC reports. The effort brings measurement to a problem people otherwise experience directly and unpleasantly. Better monitoring can help turn complaints about an odor into information that can be examined. Measurement does not remove the smell, but it gives the discussion something more precise than an emphatic gesture toward the window. Pollution is acquiring a dashboard before the nose receives a day off. Technology has reached the point where “something smells wrong” can finally request a chart.
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