Air quality monitoring
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indoor air pollutants are among the top five environmental risks to public health. This underscores the need for adequate indoor air quality within buildings. Indoor air quality can be affected by a number of factors, including smoke, microbial contaminants, volatile organic compounds and gases such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and radon. Furthermore, humidity can lead to excessive heating and cooling costs, damage building furnishings and support mold and bacterial growth, contributing to allergies and respiratory illnesses.
Continuous monitoring enables air quality specialists to gather data on conditions in the building, identify any causes of problems and develop solutions to eliminate them. Such monitoring can then prove the effectiveness of the implemented solutions. HOBO data loggers provide reliable and accurate monitoring of indoor air quality parameters that can be used to diagnose problems affecting indoor air quality in buildings.Indoor Air Quality in Schools
As the facility manager of a large school district in Pennsylvania planned for the school year, he recognized the increased importance of air quality due to the pandemic. To ensure proper fresh air circulation and monitor CO2 levels, he contacted Onset for solutions to optimize and monitor the HVAC systems according to ASHRAE standards.
Carbon dioxide risk
Poor indoor air quality (IAQ) and elevatedCO2 levels in offices, schools, health centers and homes can lead to loss of productivity and discomfort. This is one of the top five risks to public health. Building managers and engineers are responsible for creating an optimal indoor climate. Long-term CO2 monitoring helps to make decisions about ventilation control and HVAC/C upgrades, helping to save energy and improve indoor air quality.
Data logging for the modern building services engineer
In the USA, 40% of energy is used to operate buildings. In order to develop strategies and techniques to reduce high energy consumption and optimize performance, it is helpful to measure building performance and energy consumption. This guide includes various measurement approaches for quantitative savings in building services, such as lighting, HVAC/C and indoor air quality.
Comfort complaints - how data loggers can help you
Temperature data loggers are not only used by service technicians and engineers to investigate and evaluate environmental conditions, HVAC/R systems and comfort complaints, they are also used by research scientists, ecologists and hydrologists to obtain continuous records of soil, air and water temperatures. Data loggers should be easy to use. However, it is much more important that the measurements are accurate and that the data loggers are used in the right area of application. Do you need an alarm function? Does the data logger need to be waterproof? Should the data be collected on the PC? With so many different loggers to choose from, it is not always easy to find the right one straight away. This manual should help.
Monitor more than just device runtimes with data loggers
Data can be enormously informative. Data loggers are ideal for optimizing equipment runtimes in buildings, but they also have other uses. The following article describes three applications in which the use of data loggers leads to energy savings and goes far beyond mere runtime monitoring.