Mixed Report Card for Low-Cost Indoor Air Quality Home Monitors
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 - 10:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Indoor air researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) recently tested seven consumer-grade air quality monitors to see if they could detect fine particles emitted by common household activities, including cooking, burning candles, and smoking. All of the monitors tested by researchers were found to have either underreported or missed the presence of very small particles that can penetrate deeply into the lungs.