PlanetWatch

How it all started

PlanetWatch is a spin-off company of CERN that, thanks to Blockchain technology, aims to build a global network of people – the “PlanetWatchers” – who can contribute to monitoring air quality with their sensors. Users who install an air quality sensor outside (or inside) their home, send data that is recorded on the blockchain of Algorand blockchain, helping to create the first decentralized global air quality register. All sensors that transmit data to PlanetWatch earn rewards called Planet tokens.

Synesthesia and PlanetWatch have much in common: the focus on sustainable development, open innovation, synergistic collaboration with other startups and the inclusion and digitalization of processes.