Consultancies and research facilities are working with partners throughout the world to provide air quality monitoring and management services. Using air quality monitors can help organisations measure, assess and manage the impact of air pollution from their projects or operation, ranging from planning applications for new building works, traffic system optimisation, employee health & safety, transport hubs and industrial plants.
AQMesh has been used by a number of ambient air quality experts, environmental consultants and academics in a range of studies to provide reliable, repeatable and accurate data, which can be used as evidence to support mitigation strategies and risk assessments, as well as used in modelling to provide advice on which policies can be made.
Meaningful correction of cross-gas effects and interference from environmental conditions is consistently delivered through proven and traceable processing.
AQMesh pods are neat, compact and easy install within just a few minutes and experienced technical staff are not required. A 90 second installation video shows just how quick it is to be up and running.
With wireless communications using the global mobile network and a choice of power options, including batteries, mains supply or a bespoke solar pack, AQMesh can be installed in almost any location.
AQMesh performance and long-term baseline stability has been proven over many years of independent global co-location trials against certified reference equipment, providing AQMesh with a wealth of datasets that no other manufacturer has access to.
Whilst some manufacturers use a calculation to give an NO2 reading, AQMesh uses a unique O3-filtered NO2 sensor for accurate, direct measurement of NO2.
The carefully developed data processing algorithms used by AQMesh are fully traceable and fixed by version number, and, unlike other systems, have been achieved with no use of machine learning or artificial intelligence.
AQMesh has been commercially available since 2012 – making it the most proven and relied upon small sensor system on the market. During the last ten years, the team at AQMesh has never stood still by continuously improving the design and functionality of the product in response to the many challenges that localised air quality monitoring has presented around the globe.
If you are considering – or are at the point of buying – a system for local monitoring of air pollution, we have used our decade of experience to offer lists of points to consider.
Many small sensor air quality monitoring systems cannot reliably measure coarse particulate matter, or PM10, because of the technology they use. AQMesh’s proprietary optical particle counter (OPC) delivers high out-of-the-box accuracy across all key particle matter (PM) fractions thanks to its bespoke, in-house design.
The Breathe London pilot, which used 100 AQMesh pods as part of a ground breaking city-wide network of air quality monitoring stations, proved that small sensor monitoring technology can be deployed successfully to give results comparable with those of reference equipment.
A recent study using a network of five AQMesh pods has found that small sensor systems with a properly managed QA/QC process offer valuable air quality measurements, complementing data from expensive reference equipment.
A UK local authority installed nine AQMesh systems at different points across a busy town, measuring nitrogen dioxide (NO2) at 15 minute intervals, monitoring 24/7. These locations were established monitoring points, where measurements had been taken previously using diffusion tubes, limited to one average reading every few weeks.
Contact our experienced team today for more information about AQMesh and how it can support your monitoring objectives.
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