BETTAIR CITIES SL

Their core work

Bettair Cities is a Spanish technology SME that develops and deploys IoT-based air quality monitoring systems for urban environments. Their core platform combines electrochemical gas sensors and particulate matter detectors with machine learning algorithms to deliver high-accuracy, high-resolution pollution maps at city scale. They offer this as a Platform-as-a-Service, enabling municipalities and researchers to monitor urban air pollution without heavy infrastructure investment. Their technology also feeds into health exposure research, providing environmental data used to study how pollution affects human health across life stages.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Bettair Cities entered H2020 in 2019 focused squarely on the technical side of air pollution — building IoT sensor networks, deploying electrochemical sensors, and applying machine learning to urban air quality data (MappingAir). By 2020-2021, their focus broadened significantly: they moved into health-related exposure science (ATHLETE, studying pollutant effects on pregnancy and childhood) and citizen science applications using wearables and drones (SOCIO-BEE). This shows a clear trajectory from hardware-platform builder to an environmental data provider serving both health researchers and community engagement initiatives.

Bettair is expanding from pure air quality hardware into the health and citizen engagement applications of environmental data — expect them to position their platform as infrastructure for exposome research and community-driven monitoring.

How they like to work

Bettair operates as both a project leader and a specialist technology contributor. They coordinated MappingAir (their flagship, largest-funded project) while joining ATHLETE and SOCIO-BEE as a sensor/data partner. With 47 unique consortium partners across just 3 projects, they work in large, diverse consortia — particularly ATHLETE, which is a major multi-partner health research initiative. This suggests they are comfortable embedding their technology into large interdisciplinary teams rather than working only with close technical peers.

Despite having only 3 projects, Bettair has built a network of 47 unique partners across 14 countries, reflecting their participation in large-scale consortia. Their geographic spread is solidly European, with no indication of concentration in a single region beyond their home base near Barcelona.

What sets them apart

Bettair Cities sits at a rare intersection: they are both a sensor hardware company and a data analytics platform provider focused entirely on urban air quality. Unlike academic groups that study pollution or large firms that sell generic IoT infrastructure, Bettair offers a purpose-built, scalable air monitoring solution as a service. Their ability to serve both smart city deployments and health research consortia makes them a versatile technology partner for any project needing dense, reliable environmental sensing.

Highlights from their portfolio

• MappingAir
  Their coordinated flagship project (EUR 1.1M) — built the core IoT air quality platform combining sensors, ML, and PaaS delivery for cities.
• ATHLETE
  Large-scale health exposome project studying pollutant effects across human life stages — shows Bettair's sensor tech being adopted by major health research consortia.
• SOCIO-BEE
  Combines wearable sensors, drones, and citizen science for urban pollution monitoring — represents Bettair's expansion into community-driven environmental observation.