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Air Quality Monitoring Resources
A technical knowledge centre for facilities teams, consultants and building owners specifying air quality monitoring in UK commercial and public buildings. Independent, vendor-neutral, written by working air quality engineers.
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The library is grouped around the questions our clients ask before — and during — a monitoring deployment.
Monitoring fundamentals
How air quality monitors and monitoring programmes work in practice.
Pollutants and parameters
What the headline indoor pollutants are and how each is measured.
Smart buildings and IoT
Connected sensing, integration and the data layer behind modern buildings.
Sensors and calibration
How sensors are calibrated, verified and validated against reference instruments.
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Monitoring fundamentals
What is an Air Quality Monitor?
A technical primer on what air quality monitors measure, how indicative and professional-grade instruments differ, and where each fits in a building strategy.
Read guidePollutants and parameters
How CO₂ Monitoring Works
NDIR sensing, ventilation diagnostics, sensor placement and what continuous CO₂ data does — and does not — tell you about indoor air.
Read guidePollutants and parameters
Understanding PM2.5 and PM10
Particle size fractions, sources, optical mass-estimation sensors, and why two monitors in the same room can disagree.
Read guidePollutants and parameters
What Are VOCs?
Volatile organic compounds, TVOC versus speciated measurement, PID sensing, formaldehyde, and when to escalate to laboratory sampling.
Read guideSmart buildings and IoT
Smart Buildings and Air Quality
Connected environmental sensing, BMS integration, dashboards and analytics — and the operational limits of automated control.
Read guideSmart buildings and IoT
IoT Air Quality Sensors Explained
Sensor nodes, gateways, wireless protocols, cloud back-ends, device management and the practical realities of running a fleet.
Read guideSensors and calibration
How Air Quality Sensors Are Calibrated
Factory calibration, field checks, zero and span, co-location, drift correction — and the distinction between calibration, verification and validation.
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