Imagine the air inside a school or home as a soup of invisible ingredients, some of which make kids sick. This work identifies exactly which cleaning products or ventilation gaps add 'bad ingredients' to that soup. It creates a way to measure these pollutants and a tool to predict how they affect a child's health.
Standard outdoor air quality monitors fail to capture the actual pollutants children breathe inside schools and homes. This leads to inaccurate health risk assessments and ineffective ventilation strategies.
An Integrated Risk Assessment Tool, low-cost real-time monitoring devices, and a silicone wristband passive sampler system.
If you are a manufacturer dealing with regulatory pressure on indoor emissions — this project developed evidence that chlorine bleach emits high levels of ultrafine particles, allowing you to reformulate products for safer indoor use.
If you are a provider dealing with inefficient air filtration in schools — this project developed a microenvironmental model that tracks how pollutants move between indoors and outdoors to optimize ventilation settings.
If you are a hardware company dealing with high costs of air monitoring — this project developed low-cost monitoring devices and silicone wristband passive samplers for continuous pollutant detection.
Based on available project data, the specific price is not listed, but the project explicitly aims to develop 'low-cost' monitoring technologies.
The project focuses on school premises, homes, sports halls, and transport across 9 countries, suggesting the tools are designed for wide-scale urban deployment.
Based on available project data, the licensing terms are not specified, but the results are intended to support the IAQ regulatory framework in schools.
The project found that fixed monitoring stations for PM10 and PM2.5 are inadequate for children's exposure, meaning their tools are designed to fill the gap between outdoor stations and indoor reality.
The project period runs from 2022-09-01 to 2026-08-31, with results converging into the Integrated Risk Assessment Tool by the end of the term.
The consortium is heavily weighted toward research and academia, with 7 universities and 7 research organizations. However, the inclusion of 1 industry partner and 1 SME suggests a bridge toward commercialization. With 15 partners across 9 countries, the project has high geographical diversity, ensuring the tools are tested across different climatic and social settings in Europe and Australia.
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