Air monitoring and air insight generation

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoding computer executable instructions that, when executed by a processing unit, perform operations comprising:

• receiving air monitoring data produced by an air monitoring device using a laser-scattering sensor for air in an area of a vehicle monitored by the air monitoring device during a time period associated with a reservation of the vehicle by a client account via a vehicle access platform, in which the air monitoring data includes particulate measurements including size-binned particulate counts per unit volume, and time data including timestamps corresponding to the size-binned particulate counts per unit volume;
• processing the air monitoring data to generate one or more air insights associated with the air in the area of the vehicle monitored during the time period;
• generating air insight content based on the one or more air insights, the air insight content including the one or more air insights associated with the air in the area of the vehicle monitored during the time period;
• and
• controlling, based on the air insight content, access of the client account to the vehicle access platform.

An air monitoring system comprising:

• an air insight engine implemented at least partially by hardware to:
• receive air monitoring data produced by a laser-scattering sensor of an air monitoring device, the air monitoring data for air in an area monitored by the air monitoring device, in which the air monitoring data includes particulate measurements including size-binned particulate counts per unit volume, and time data including timestamps corresponding to the size-binned particulate counts per unit volume;
• process the air monitoring data to generate one or more air insights associated with the air in the area monitored by the air monitoring device;
• and
• detect a pollution event based at least in part on the one or more air insights;
• and
• an access controller implemented at least partially by the hardware to control, responsive to the detecting of the pollution event, access to a vehicle access platform.