Building America Team: Newport Partners
Partners: South Coast Air Quality Management District and Home Ventilating Institute
The goal of this project is to develop laboratory test methods for performance verification of low-cost IAQ sensors and provide technical support to industry stakeholders during the development of an ASTM standard based on these test methods.
Establishing a consensus test standard for verifying the performance of low-cost IAQ sensors will open the door to confident and optimized specification of smart ventilation systems. Such systems have great potential with respect to energy savings and health savings.
Establishing a consensus test standard for verifying the performance of low-cost IAQ sensors will open the door to confident and optimized specification of smart ventilation systems.
Project schedule:
- Sensors
- Two pollutants: CO2 and PM2.5
- Four models per pollutant
- Sensor will be tested in triplicate
- 8 weeks to test all the models at once
- Not including the time it takes the lab to generate conditions
- ASTM meeting in April 2020
- PM2.5 testing completed
- ASTM meeting in October 2020
- CO2 and PM2.5 testing complete.
For more information, project presentations, and related publications, visit the Development of Laboratory Test Methods for Low-Cost Indoor Air Quality Sensors webpage.