Hawa Dawa monitors air quality block-by-block to help cities make decisions

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
make?Thats the concept behind Hawa Dawa, the first company pitching today in the TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin Startup Battlefield
Hawa Dawa combines data sources like satellites and dedicated air monitoring stations to build a granular heat map of air pollutants,
sensors for companies and cities that might not have existing air quality sensors in place.(Curious about the name? Co-founder Karim Tarraf
Persian.)With this data, a city could, for example, opt to change how it routes traffic to minimize vehicle exhausts in particularly
polluted streets and monitor how changes are actually impacting the air
A real estate company might help customers with pulmonary issues like asthma find potential homes in neighborhoods that tend to have the
cleanest air