Nowadays, people are paying more and more attention to air quality. This requires air quality monitoring equipment that ensures the stability of measurement data while accommodating different measurement environments. Palas® AQ Guard is a compact, automatic system for continuous monitoring of fine dust in ambient air. It has advanced aerosol measurement technology and the function that can be used for real-time monitoring in moving vehicles. The National Environmental Monitoring Centre of China (CNEMC) and the Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Centre (SEMC), which are responsible for monitoring air quality at major events, have successively chosen the AQ Guard Ambient as their navigation monitoring device.
Palas® AQ Guard – officially trusted choice for Paralympic Games
When the China National Environmental Monitoring Center needed a moving vehicle for real-time monitoring during the Winter and Paralympic Games, they chose the easy-to-install, plug-in AQ Guard Ambient. The AQ Guard Ambient has a compact design. It can easily be installed in a car for mobile ambient air monitoring. Not only does it meet the monitoring data requirements, but it does not require any physical reconfiguration of the existing vehicles. In just a few days, the device was installed and successfully connected to the China National Environmental Monitoring Center’s data platform. The reason why the Palas® AQ Guard air quality monitor was selected for this support mission is that the high temporal resolution of the device meets the navigation monitoring requirements during the support period. At the same time, the mass and number concentrations of particulate matter can be displayed in real time. By using Palas® single particle aerosol particle size distribution spectrometer technology, CNEMC can also detect the particle size distribution of the most important particles, opening up new possibilities in the field of air quality analysis. Click here for more information on the use of CNEMC
Air monitoring equipment locates air particles
The Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Centre (SEMC) enjoys the highest recognition in the country for its progressive work. The facility is responsible for monitoring the city’s environmental quality and emission sources, water, atmosphere, ecological and biological environment. It is also an information and training centre for the Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Department. For SEMC researchers, measuring the number of particles in the air is a routine procedure. With the Palas® AQ Guard technology, they also had the opportunity to see what particle size is prevalent in the air. And on top of that: The Palas® AQ Guard refreshes the data every second. This means: in combination with the installed camera, the researchers were able to see where the increase in particles could come from. This is a crucial advance in air quality analysis. Click here to learn more about the use of SEMC
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A game-changer in real-time monitoring
AQ Guard, currently the most advanced compact analyzer for determining ambient air quality, continuously and reliably analyses airborne fine dust particles in the range 175 nm – 20 µm. A newly developed mass conversion algorithm calculates PM values based on single particle optical light scattering, taking signal duration and shape into account. Sensor system and algorithms were developed based on the technology of the EN 16450 certified Fidas® 200.
AQ Guard Ambient has fast data interfaces and allows real-time access via Ethernet, WiFi or mobile network. As all results are calculated and recorded within the analyser, no external data processing, e.g. through cloud computing, is required. Users retain full control over their data and decide how to access the information. AQ Guard can provide numerical data using various communication protocols and visualise information on any type of device via a modern web interface.
Palas® is about to launch the new AQ Guard smart, stay tuned！
New AQ Guard Smart
Advantages:
· High accuracy and reproducibility of the fine dust values due to the technology based on the certified Fidas® 200 series; known for its proven quick and easy on-site calibration
· Short-term commissioning and immediate recording of measured values via the cloud MyAtmosphere
· Situation-specific configuration via Wi-Fi hotspot, remote access and external touchpad
· Communication over GPRS/3G/4G/Ethernet/Wi-Fi, optional: LoRaWAN
· Expandable with weather station and gas sensors for better assessment and evaluation of particulate matter data
· Measurement of Cn, PM1 , PM2.5, PM4, PM10 with high temporal resolution (optional: SO2, CO, NO2, O3)
· Particle measurement range from 0.175 – 20,000 nm up to 100 mg/m³ mass concentration or 20,000 particle/cm³ (single particle analysis)
Applications：
· Rodas, pails, ports
· Smart city projects
· Open pit mining, landfills
· Construction sites: roads, railways, demolition sites
· Industry: production processes, bulk material handling (mixing, discharge, storage, packaging, etc.), border control
· Inner city
Palas® China will arrange a series of online webinars both in English and Chinese for Ambient air quality continuous monitoring system, Palas® SMPS scanning mobility particle sizer, Palas® Promo® & Aerosol Generator & Dilution system, ISO 16890 filter media tester, Palas® MFP 3000 G, ISO 29463-3 filter media tester, Palas® MFP Nano plus 4000, ISO 17536 Fractional filtration efficiency tester of Oil Mist Separator, Palas® HMT 1000, as well as Particle Distribution Measurement Devices Introduction – Optical Scattering Method and many other solutions. If interested in the webinars for our products, you are more than welcome to register on our official website and get the latest webinar plan!