“The future depends on what we do in the present.”Mahatma Gandhi. What were you doing when you were 17? I think I could safely assume that many of you (including myself) have spent our time preparing for GCE A-Levels and not very sure of what our future would hold. At 17 years old, Richard Ren …
Continue reading Build for the Future – The Future of AQI prediction?
“Pollution of the air or the land all ultimately ends up in the sea.” Jacques Cousteau. From the previous posts, we found out that most countries do have their measurement methods used in determining their AQI index, do you know that there could be more than one method of calculating AQI? In this journal article …
Continue reading Two Heads Are Better than One – Alternative Methods for measuring AQI?
“Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions.”Mary Douglas. Having seen the components that constitute the measurements of Indoor Air Quality (or IAQ for short), I ended off my previous post asking you to think about whether the equipment used to measure IAQ would differ from those that …
Continue reading Moving the Needle – Monitoring IAQ with Equipment
“That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong.”Louise Slaughter. Do you know that a separate set of criteria is used to monitor indoor air quality …
Continue reading It is the Inside that Counts – Monitoring Indoor Air Quality
“I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control.”Kevin Mitnick. As promised, I will be showing you some of the devices that countries use to measure their AQI! Before we begin, DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT …
Continue reading Made to Measure – Monitoring AQI with Equipment
“Cost is more important than quality, but, quality is the best way to reduce cost.”Genichi Taguchi. If you have read my last post, you probably have come across “Air Quality Index”, or AQI for short. Now, you might be wondering: what on earth does this term mean? What is AQI? According to Kowalska et al. …
Continue reading In a Class of its Own – Monitoring Air Quality Index
"The built environment has direct and indirect effects on mental health."Dr G. Evans. Since we have been talking about the different contributors of air pollution over the last few posts, I think some of you might already be wondering – there are so many types of air pollutants in our air today, so how can …
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