Environmental Sensor for HVAC Air Quality Monitoring Systems

The onset of the covid19 pandemic has raised concern among personnel (military and civilian) about air quality in buildings and other indoor work areas. Effective monitoring in buildings is crucial in minimizing viral transmission and maintaining worker health. Guidance from the World Health Organization on managing aerosol transmission indicates that improved filtration & monitoring in buildings reduces infection risk. It is also critical for sensor hardware to be reliable and operate correctly to ensure accurate data capture, and equally critical that the data captured by sensor technology is able to be transferred seamlessly, and in real-time. This has specific challenges within DoD centers of operation. We propose to adapt and utilize an American Ecotech air monitoring sensor technology for the purposes of providing a real-time solution to accurately and quickly assess air quality in DoD buildings. We will incorporate the American Ecotech innovative technology to continuously monitor the levels of particulates flowing in and out of HVAC air handling systems within buildings, enabling facility maintenance procedures to be modified based on measured particulate levels (& potentially in future, also bioaerosol levels), in combination with monitoring and adjusting indoor relative humidity..