IQAir facilitates air quality monitoring in schools
Steinach - IQAir has announced the launch of Schools4Earth. This initiative empowers schools to monitor air quality in real time. IQAir offers access to cost-effective devices for air monitoring.
(CONNECT) IQAir, a company that specializes in the area of air quality technologies based in Steinach in the canton of St.Gallen, Switzerland, has announced the global rollout of Schools4Earth, further details of which can be found in a press release. The program is designed to allow schools to monitor air quality in real time. Schools4Earth offers schools access to cost-effective air monitoring devices and, according to the information, supplies teachers, students, parents and communities with key data on the air quality around them. The aim here is to reduce exposure to air pollution in order to protect the health of students. Children are particularly vulnerable to the impact of air pollution because they breathe in more air relative to their body weight than adults, as IQAir explains.
“Schools4Earth empowers schools to monitor air quality and provide real-time environmental data to their community. This not only helps to protect children’s health, but also expands environmental awareness around the world”, comments Frank Hammes, Global CEO of IQAir, in the press release. Schools are at the heart of communities and are therefore regarded as the ideal locations for air quality monitoring, the company writes.
IQAir estimates that, at present, just 21 percent of the global population has access to hyper-local air quality data in real time. If every school around the world had a monitor, access to real-time air quality data could be increased to 94 percent of the global population, according to the IQAir press release.
Schools4Earth has reportedly set itself the goal of supplying more than one million schools with air quality measuring devices by establishing a global network, in this way providing more than 7 billion people with air quality data in real time. In this context, interested parties, e.g. school principals, parents, companies, municipal administration organizations and community groups, could purchase an air monitor that is then donated to a school. ce/gba