Does your community need cost-effective, remote air quality monitoring solutions?

The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) in the USA is doing the EPA Smart City Air Challenge to encourage folks like you to deploy lots of air quality monitoring boxes that give open data that anyone in any community can use for things like air quality analysis and 3D visualization! Recent advances in technology and science have made air quality monitoring more affordable than ever.

You can easily and quickly deploy air quality monitoring units around the world in a much more cost-effective way than just 5 years ago. This means better resolution and information for everyone in your community since we know the air quality at the airport, or any other nearest air quality monitoring station, may not be the same air quality at your house or in your community that’s many miles away from the nearest air quality monitoring unit.

You can easily manage and share your data with Valarm Tools Cloud / Tools.Valarm.net APIs like JSON and CSV.

What air quality sensor options are available? Lucky for you Valarm can literally monitor anything, anywhere!

We work with various organizations and government agencies around the world, like South Coast Air Quality Management District (SC-AQMD or just AQMD). AQMD is the government agency responsible for air quality monitoring and compliance in Los Angeles, Orange County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, and the majority of Southern California.

Fortunately, AQMD has the state of the art Air Quality Sensor Performance Evaluation Center (AQ-SPEC). AQ-SPEC is the first comprehensive evaluation center to test low-cost air quality sensors and subject the sensors to a wide range of environmental conditions. AQMD tests and evaluates the performance of all kinds of air quality sensors from all over the world, and then determines how they stack up to $$ million dollar or more / really expensive, official EPA standard air quality sensors. In other words, AQMD’s field testing provides side-by-side comparison with EPA-approved instruments and methods.

What does this mean? This means you can work with us to get the most bang for your buck for your your air quality monitoring boxes! There’s a huge difference in the super low-cost air quality sensors vs. those that are simply low-cost yet extremely effective when compared to US EPA standard, crazy expensive air quality sensors.

With AQMD, Valarm has made highly effective yet quite affordable, remote air quality monitoring units that are deployed in the field in California to monitor specific gases (e.g., O3, NO2, CH4, CO, H2S) and particulate matter (e.g., PM1, PM2.5, PM10) with air quality sensors proven to perform well in the AQ-SPEC testing facility mentioned above.

You can monitor exactly what you need, like:

• Specific gases like O3 / Ozone, NO2 / Nitrogen Dioxide, SO2 / Sulfur Dioxide, H2S / Hydrogen Sulfide, or any other gases you need to remotely monitor
• Particulate Matter like PM1, PM2.5, PM10 by deploying Optical Particle Counters

Valarm Tools Cloud software is available at Tools.Valarm.net. Tools.Valarm.net is an open platform for working with your Industrial IoT, remote monitoring, and sensor telemetry information. You can map, graph, download, analyze, forward your data via APIs like JSON or CSV to big data analytics and intelligence systems like Esri ArcGIS.

Where do you get the stuff you need? You can get sensor hubs, sensors and other hardware at Shop.Valarm.net.

And click here to see a step-by-step HowTo video tutorial on making your own solar-powered, remote sensor monitoring boxes.

Have you seen mobile, GPS-tagged air quality sensor information on 3D maps / earth globes? Take a look here at this video for an example of how quick and easy it is with Valarm Tools Cloud.

Questions?

Please don’t hesitate to Contact Us at Info@Valarm.net!

Have a look at our Customer Stories page for more stories on what you get with Valarm Industrial IoT solutions for all industries like natural resources, governments, and mobile assets like fleet vehicle tracking for trucks and trailers loaded up with industrial equipment like pumps and vacuums.

Also see our custom Web Dashboards for Industrial IoT, remote monitoring, and sensor telemetry. Valarm dashboards give you, your community, anyone else you want, a quick and easy way to view your air quality and other sensor information with widgets, graphs, maps, and anything else you need. All on a web browser on any device like your tablet or phone.

We understand what you really need to with Industrial IoT and remote sensor monitoring. We’ll help you deploy the most effective air quality monitoring solution for your specific scenario / environment.