air quality Archives - Ramboll Shair

Shair team members contribute to a piece on Molekule’s blog about the utility and limitations of consumer air quality sensors

by Kurt Richman | Feb 24, 2020 | Science & Engineering

Photo by Robin Glauser on Unsplash Air pollution affects everyone. Increasingly, people are using low-cost air quality sensors to measure this microscopic phenomenon. Can you trust the readings? The answer holds real-life implications, especially when it comes...

Know What You Are Breathing

by Julia Luongo | Dec 3, 2018 | Science & Engineering

On Friday, the New York Times published a provocative piece on the state of air pollution monitoring in the United States. The article, “Do You Know What You’re Breathing” by Nellie Bowles, is a powerful piece on the need for increasing the availability and...

Why is hyper-local air quality information important?

by Julia Luongo | Nov 13, 2018 | Science & Engineering

One major reason: so that you can know when to take action. Simple steps like turning on the furnace fan (with a highly MERV-rated furnace filter from the hardware store) can improve indoor air quality during outdoor pollution events. Over the weekend, a member of the...

How machine learning and open source data can dramatically improve the quality of low-cost sensor output

by Julia Luongo | Nov 6, 2018 | Science & Engineering

Low-cost sensors: a true “disruption” Understanding the quality of the air we breath once required specialized field skills, large semi-permanent sample staging, and a hefty budget (often $10,000+ per monitor!). Today, low-cost sensors are changing the way we think...