We breathe 10,800 Liters or 11.52 Kilograms of Air Per day! Imagine the impact this has on our health!! Air quality is becoming more and more important for leading a healthy and good quality of life. Unfortunately, the Quality of Air is degrading rapidly around the world and that increases the occurrences of many respiratory diseases like Asthma, COPD, Cystic Fibrosis, Sleep Apnea, Pneumonia, Pulmonary Hypertension and Lung Cancer, besides many others. There are proven short term and long-term health hazards. Do we to think before we breathe?

Monitoring the Air Quality, Outdoors as well as Indoors is the first step toward a healthier living environment. The air composition around us must be known to take relevant corrective actions and mitigate identified problems. The air around us has many components and many of them become pollutants when they go beyond safe limits. Plus, human activities such as manufacturing, infrastructure development and burning fossil fuels release many such unwanted pollutants worsening the air quality. Whereas not all activities can be stopped, we can certainly limit the damage caused to our health if we have the knowledge of air around us.

Organisations such as WHO, EPA and CPCB in India are some of the regulatory bodies which monitor air quality and also release the guidelines for measuring and monitoring the same. Safe ranges are defined and a unique value is derived called Air Quality Index (AQI) which is indicative of the Air Quality. Subsequently, there are Outdoor AQI and Indoor AQI. The AQI number has since become a quick reference point to know the air quality of a particular environment.

Traditionally, wet chemistry based analytical instrumentation has been used for measuring the composition of air. This traditional method, although accurate, has its own very big limitations. The challenge of the large size of the equipment, the regular maintenance required, the technical personnel, the substantial continuous power supply, the operator space, air-conditioned environment required for these analysers etc simply cannot be made available at many locations, and to many interested entities for a variety of reasons, huge CapEx and OpEx cost being two big deterrents. Hence, new age sensor-based systems are now the future of Air Quality Monitoring.

The new generation sensors are not only more economical to deploy, but also almost as accurate as the analysers and have substantially increased lifespan of up to 5 years. They can be placed at any location and do not need any manpower to operate. Plus, they are always connected wirelessly and work with each other to form a network, which in turn provides a complete understanding of the dynamic air medium in an area or region of interest for all stakeholders.

As in every technology, there is a variety within the sensor space. Some sensors are made for satisfying the requirement of recording and providing very high accuracy legally defensible data, whereas some others are made to give an indicative data at a low cost. At Lisamed, we believe that sensor technology is the next primary way to measure air quality, and our patented very high quality – high accuracy sensors are the key to mould this change for the good of our environment. Lisamed focuses on such new technologies to bring suitable solutions to developing nations like India and surrounding countries.

Lisamed’s exclusive association with Aeroqual New Zealand (Real-Time Air Quality Monitoring Systems | Aeroqual) had made Aeroqual’s patented high accuracy high fidelity sensors available in all markets in Indian sub-continent at a justifiable price and with full after sales and technical support from the team trained by Aeroqual in New Zealand.