Luminate

Personal air quality, in motion

The air you breathe — every day.

Luminate turns the places you spend time and the journeys between them into a clear, personal picture of air pollution exposure.

Background recording Participant-correctable Local-first timeline
9:41Recording quietly

Friday, 18 July

08:2407:10
Start of day1h 14m
08:5208:25
Morning walk27m
NO₂ 18O₃ 52PM₁₀ 16PM₂.₅ 8
09:0108:53
Bus · 91%8m
17:3209:01
Office8h 31m
✓ Confirmed · calculating exposure
9:4131 days tracked

Insights

Your exposure story30 days
PM₂.₅ 11.8PM₁₀ 21.3NO₂ 23.4O₃ 48.9
−9%vs previous period
214htracked time
Journeys
WWalking14h 06m10.2
CCycling6h 32m13.6
TTube7h 48m38.4
Highs & lowsJourneys
HighestUnderground journey52.7 µg/m³
LowestGreenway walk4.2 µg/m³

Ask Luminate

Questions become calculations over your data

When was my NO₂ exposure highest last week?
Highest journeyTuesday · Underground52.7 µg/m³
(21 min × 52.7) ÷ 21 min · 94% coverage
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01Record your day
02Review or edit
03Exposure insights
04Explore patterns
05Ask a question
01 / ONE CONTINUOUS DAY

A diary you never have to write.

Luminate quietly detects journeys, stops and recurring places, then builds them into a timeline you can review and correct.

Movement becomes a day

Today

Movement becomes meaning, one segment at a time.

08:4007:12
Home1h 28m
NO₂ 19O₃ 45PM₁₀ 16PM₂.₅ 8
09:0308:41
Walking22m
NO₂ 28O₃ 37PM₁₀ 31PM₂.₅ 12
09:2109:04
Bus17m
NO₂ 32O₃ 35PM₁₀ 29PM₂.₅ 13
09:4209:22
Cycling20m
NO₂ 17O₃ 46PM₁₀ 15PM₂.₅ 7
10:2409:43
Local café41m
NO₂ 21O₃ 48PM₁₀ 18PM₂.₅ 9
01 / JOURNEY DETECTION

Movement becomes meaningful.

Walking, cycling, road and public transport are inferred from movement patterns and shown with confidence.

02 / FAMILIAR PLACES

Places gain context over time.

Name recurring stops once, revisit them later and keep every confirmation under your control.

03 / MAP MEMORY

Every journey stays findable.

Focus a route, revisit a day from the calendar and see how different parts of your routine fit together.

02 / EXPOSURE

Track your exposure over time

Confirmed journeys and stops become a daily exposure record. Move between concentration and dose to see both where pollution was highest and where time made the greatest contribution.

YOUR MONTH

July

7 example days
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Choose any coloured dayA different populated day loads every five seconds. Choosing one restarts that five-second countdown.
SINGLE DAY

Friday 18 July

Average · µg/m³

03 / INSIGHTS

One day is useful. A pattern can change a habit.

Move from today to a week, month or season. Compare journey modes, recurring places and the moments behind your highest and lowest exposure.

  • Walking, cycling, bus, rail, car and underground
  • Compare recurring places alongside journeys
  • Move between a week, month or custom period
YOUR EXPOSURE STORY

Last 30 days

Journeys

Places

04 / ASK LUMINATE

Ask your day a question.

Use natural language to explore your own data. Ask Luminate responds with visual cards, relevant routes or places, and the calculation behind every answer.

RECENT QUESTIONSWhere was my exposure highest?Did walking more make a difference?Which place contributed most?Questions are answered from your own timeline.

Ask Luminate

Exploring your last 30 days

When was my NO₂ exposure highest last week?
21 min journey
HIGHEST NO₂ JOURNEY

Tuesday evening · Underground

52.7 µg/m³

94% of this journey had model coverage.

Σ(concentration × duration) ÷ 21 min
Did my active travel improve this month?
ACTIVE TRAVEL

Yes — 2h 18m more

+14%
PreviousThis month

Walking increased most on weekday mornings.

Ask about journeys, places or exposure…
05 / QUIETLY COMPLEX

Deep technology. One insightful experience.

Adaptive recording, journey segmentation, mode inference, place learning, exposure modelling and battery policy work together so the user sees a day—not a debugging console.

ADAPT

Sample when evidence matters.

Movement and device state shape recording intensity instead of relying on one fixed cadence.

SETTLE

Turn fragments into a day.

Noisy points become journeys, stops and reviewable confidence—not a stream of raw traces.

EXPLAIN

Keep every insight traceable.

Long-term patterns still link back to the route, place and confirmed event that produced them.

06 / RESEARCH AT SCALE

A useful app for people. A research platform for cities.

With permission, many individual days can reveal when and where exposure happens across a population—and whether healthier travel choices last.