The first week I joined Atlan, I was given a “hack week” project to present to the rest of the company. My project was simple and open ended: “build something cool”. As a newcomer to Delhi, I was concerned by the infamous air pollution continually hovering over the city. I decided to build two IoT air pollution sensing devices (one…
The Most Polluted City On Earth Delhi is one of the largest and fastest growing cities on the planet. Home to over 24 million people, one of the unifying challenges for this huge and diverse population is also one of the most basic necessities for life: clean air. Delhi was recently granted the dubious title
Here at Atlan, we’ve begun using Internet-of-Things technology to research solutions for some of the world’s most pressing problems: monitoring pollution, conserving energy, protecting against identity fraud, and…making coffee. “[If we could] turn on the coffee machine via Slack, we’d be set,” Christine wistfully wrote one afternoon on our #coffee Slack channel. Being located in Delhi, good chai is readily…
Building for the “next billion” is a challenge, thanks to difficulties posed by the lack of internet, electricity, and low-cost devices. At Atlan, we set out to build an Android data collection application that could work in the most remote, rugged parts of the world. We have been successful in building an Android application, Collect, that works without internet, on phones…
