Environmental Intelligence with Aclima CEO Davida Herzl

Welcome to "How I Launched This: A SaaS Story" from Google Cloud! In our first installment of the podcast, your hosts Stephanie Wong (@stephr_wong) and Carter Morgan (@carterthecomic) talk with the folks at San Francisco-based Aclima about environmental intelligence. Aclima's air quality mapping platform aggregates and analyzes air pollution factors to aid in the diagnosis and remedy of these problems for a safer breathing environment, both locally and globally. The air quality data is collected by sensors on vehicles and input into the SaaS platform for customers. The analyzed data can quickly be interpreted so appropriate measures can be taken to mitigate air pollution.

Davida Herzl, CEO of Aclima, starts the show explaining why she felt the world needed Aclima and how advancements in technology made it possible to collect, store, and analyze data in a new and more useful way. With their hyperlocal data collection system, clients can see city-block by city-block numbers and learn how the air quality affects each individual person, making the system much more personal. The data can of course also be analyzed in larger numbers for city-wide, state-wide, or even global solutions.

Davida and Robert Murphy, VP Strategy and Business Development, later dive into the technical side of Aclima, describing their technology stack, development procedures, and suggestions of SaaS best practices. Davida also elaborates on the development of the hardware and how these sensors are deployed. She addresses the growth of Aclima and how company management and technologies have changed and grown with the business. She wraps up the show expressing her excitement at how technology can continue to improve our world.
Episode Links:
AclimaGoogle Street ViewGoogle Earth Outreach