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Remotely Monitor Pollution & Gases with Alphasense Industrial IoT Sensors
Technology Category
- Functional Applications - Remote Monitoring & Control Systems
- Sensors - Gas Sensors
Use Cases
- Outdoor Environmental Monitoring
The Challenge
To implement air quality monitoring of Ozone / O3, VOCs, Nitrogen Oxides / NO2, Dust Particulates, PM1, PM2.5, PM10.
The Customer
Blue Tomorrow
About The Customer
Blue Tomorrow, LLC is a California-certified small business based out of Santa Barbara, where it was founded in the summer of 2013.
The Solution
Blue Tomorrow deployed Valarm air quality monitoring units in the Central Valley in California near Kern County.
These boxes integrated Industrial IoT hardware from all over the world to effectively measure air quality sensor factors like:
• Dust and Particulate Matter, PM1, PM2.5, PM10
• Ozone a.k.a. O3
• NO2 a.k.a. Nitrogen Dioxide
• Volatile Organic Compounds a.k.a. VOCs
Examples of VOCs were things like alcohols, aldehydes, aliphatic hydro-carbons, amines, aromatic hydro-carbons (e.g., gasoline vapors), carbon oxides, methane, LPG, ketones, and organic acids.
These solar powered units sent real-time air quality sensor measurements to Tools.Valarm.net using this key sensor hardware from Shop.Valarm.net:
• GSM 3G Sensor Hubs
• TTL Serial Sensor Adapters
• Meteo Sensors – Temperature, Humidity, and Pressure
• SPI Serial Sensor Adapters
These boxes integrated Industrial IoT hardware from all over the world to effectively measure air quality sensor factors like:
• Dust and Particulate Matter, PM1, PM2.5, PM10
• Ozone a.k.a. O3
• NO2 a.k.a. Nitrogen Dioxide
• Volatile Organic Compounds a.k.a. VOCs
Examples of VOCs were things like alcohols, aldehydes, aliphatic hydro-carbons, amines, aromatic hydro-carbons (e.g., gasoline vapors), carbon oxides, methane, LPG, ketones, and organic acids.
These solar powered units sent real-time air quality sensor measurements to Tools.Valarm.net using this key sensor hardware from Shop.Valarm.net:
• GSM 3G Sensor Hubs
• TTL Serial Sensor Adapters
• Meteo Sensors – Temperature, Humidity, and Pressure
• SPI Serial Sensor Adapters
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