air quality monitoring Articles
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Air Quality Monitoring
Why monitor air quality? Well, to monitor is to know. Everything else is just more or less qualified guesses. International, national and local air quality targets and limits are also tied to monitoring results. What is Air Quality? How is air quality characterised? It is quite common to find air quality indexes, where the ranges are divided in sections indicating “good”, ...
By OPSIS AB
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Rough set-based regionalisation in air quality monitoring
Regionalisation is to organise a large set of spatial objects into spatially contiguous regions despite optimising the homogeneity of the derived regions, while representing social and economic geography. To confront this problem, it is necessary to classify the regions to form groups that are homogeneous in air quality attributes. It is to develop a system that applies data mining techniques to ...
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Air Quality Monitoring for Wildfire Smoke
Protecting public health during wildfires In the face of climate change and increasing environmental disasters like wildfires, there is a growing need for resilient air quality monitoring infrastructure. Traditional air quality monitors often rely on vulnerable infrastructures like WiFi and electrical grids, which can easily fail during disasters, leaving us without accurate information about air ...
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Selecting the Right Air Quality Monitor
There are many types of air quality monitors available, but which one is the best choice for measuring gaseous air pollutant concentrations? There are two classes of such air quality monitors: sampling monitors and in-situ monitors (“in-situ” = “in the original position”). Sampling monitors utilises a manifold through which the air to be analysed is pumped. A small air ...
By OPSIS AB
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Air Quality Monitoring in Schools
In November 2019, the schools in New Delhi, the capital of India, were shut for two days. Reason? An extreme spike in the pollution level of Delhi air. The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) had reported an AQI (Air Quality Index) of 472, which is nine times the level recommended by the WHO. The maximum possible rating is 500. Today schools are all placed in highly populated places. Most of ...
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Croydon Council Invests In Air Quality Monitoring
The Environmental impact of construction is now better understood Brighton, UK 11 May 2020 - Croydon Council is leading local authority monitoring of the impact of construction in their borough. With no less than 11 multi-million pound construction developments in progress at any one time, the Council is rightly concerned about maintaining environmental compliance. Following the agreement with ...
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Air quality monitoring during the Valencia marathon - Case Study
LOCATION Valencia, Spain SOLUTION Health, Sports & Open Spaces SECTOR Smart Environment PRODUCT Kunak AIR A10 mobile Kunak AIR P10 mobile Challenge World Athletics set out in 2018 to create a real-time air quality network with global coverage to help athletes choose the best times to train and compete, to help organizers protect athletes' health and - in collaboration with the United ...
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£5M Investment In Air Quality
The UK government announced an investment of ~£5 Million to tackle air pollution and one third of all funded applications explicitly mention air quality monitoring or the purchase of air quality sensors. It makes sense: ❔ How do we evaluate the return on the investment? Accurate monitoring of changes in air quality in the target area is needed. ❔ How do we design future ...
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Indoor Air Quality Monitoring
The commercial office space market is no stranger to swiftly accommodating the needs of their tenants. In the ‘90s and 2000s, this meant amenities like gym space and cafes for workers who needed to be on-site. Now, as hybrid work models and environmentally sustainable business models become central to their customers, we’re seeing more demand for indoor air quality (IAQ) monitoring. ...
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Benefits of Air Quality Monitoring
The air we breathe has an immeasurable impact on our lives. It’s not just a matter of sustenance, health, and well-being. As urbanisation and industrialisation continue to surge, the need for robust air quality monitoring becomes more pressing. Today, air quality monitoring isn’t merely a trend; it’s a necessity. Real-time air quality monitors have revolutionised the ...
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Air Quality Monitoring in the EU – What, Where, and How?
Air quality is essential to all of us, and consequently, so is the monitoring of air quality. However, what should be monitored, and where, and how? There are many bids on that. Some ten years ago, The European Union established its directive 2008/50/EC “on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe”. It is aimed at protecting human health as well as vegetation, and it has ever ...
By OPSIS AB
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Continuous air quality monitoring on a refinery - Case Study
We installed several Ecomsmart for ambient air quality monitoring on the TOTAL refinery site. By connecting to the web platform www.i-comesure.com users can be constantly informed in real-time of the air quality at their production ...
By Ecomesure
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Cartography for air quality monitoring: the geostatistical approach
Being able to provide quick and accurate pollutant maps from readings at isolated measurement stations is becoming more important today in light of the European norms on air quality and the public’s demand to be informed. Commonly used algorithms for cartography are quick but their accuracy remains to be determined.Firstly, the choice of method is arbitrary and based on user’s subjective ...
By Geovariances
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Why Air Quality Monitoring Matters
Air pollution causes premature deaths and has significant consequences on the global economy. This has been presented in several reports recently. Air pollution has emerged as the fourth-leading risk factor for deaths worldwide. The World Bank states that 1 in 10 deaths worldwide is caused by air pollution exposure. In the report The Cost of Air Pollution: Strengthening the Economic Case for ...
By OPSIS AB
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Air quality monitoring in different parts of San Sebastian - Case Study
LOCATION San Sebastian, Spain SOLUTION Urban air quality SECTOR Smart Environment PRODUCT Kunak AIR A10 Kunak AIR P10 Challenge To turn San Sebastian into a smart city that improves the quality of life of its citizens and generates new business opportunities for local companies and commercial establishments, thanks to the extended use of ICTs and a rational use of resources and the ...
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Passive samplers for air quality monitoring in a Brazilian university
The aim of this paper was to evaluate the applicability of passive samplers for the monitoring and diagnosis of air pollution at Passo Fundo University, focusing on atmospheric pollutants NO 2 and O 3 . The samplers were built in accordance with already verified methodologies and were placed in several locations in the university campus, namely: energy generator, pool heating boiler, ...
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Analysis of local concentration gradients in complex built environments: implications for Air Quality Management Areas
This paper reviews the existing guidance on placement of permanent air quality monitoring stations within urban areas and suggests the principles for a new, performance-based guidance. An integrated air quality model has been developed and validated for the designated Air Quality Management Area (AQMA) located in Glasgow City Centre to analyse the importance of local concentration gradients on ...
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Smart City Air Quality Monitoring - Case Study
Prime Minister Narendra Modi started the Smart City initiative to ensure people in urban areas have access to a better standard of living along with good infrastructure, good education and health facilities and access to a healthy environment. This means, among other things, that City corporations have to ensure a reduction in pollution levels in their respective cities. Prkruti is a device that ...
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Maximize Your Air Quality Budget in a Post-COVID World
A Guide to Leveraging Low-Cost Sensors for Air Quality Monitoring 2.0 Maximize Your Air Quality Budget in a Post-COVID World 2020 was a turbulent year for nearly every corner of the world, and the air quality management space is no exception. Due to the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, government agencies around the world are facing reduced budgets for 2021 and beyond. At the same time, ...
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MCERTS for Praxis/Urban Air Quality Monitor
South Coast Science’s Praxis/Urban has now been awarded MCERTS for indicative measurement of dust in ambient air (PM2.5 and PM10). You can see the list of certified devices on the CSA website here, you can also view our certificate which includes notes on the product and its usage. The certification process is also underway for the Praxis/Cube and it’s anticipated that full MCERTS ...
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