TALKING WWEM AND AQE WITH THIS YEAR’S AWARD WINNERS
At this year’s Water, Wastewater and Environmental Monitoring (WWEM) and Air Quality and Emissions (AQE) conferences in Telford, a number of awards were given out for excellence in various aspects of air, water and environmental monitoring. To learn a little more about their products, partnerships and why they come to these events, International Environmental Technology took a walk around the exhibition fl oor to talk to some of the winning exhibitors.
AQE’s Best Supplier Service Award:
EarthSense EarthSense is an award-winning manufacturer of air quality monitors. However, the company’s digital services extend far beyond the provision of instrumentation.
“We think of it as a hardware-enabled software service,” says EarthSense MD Tom Hall.
In addition to the collection of air quality data, EarthSense’s products enable users such as local authorities, transport professionals and construction companies to more easily visualise air quality data, with the provision of insights for mitigation and improvement measures. Public portals are also available offering clear and simple displays to improve community engagement.
Air quality is visualised on the MyAir® web application and measurements can be integrated with other systems such as traffi c management to leverage the value of the data. In addition, MappAir® provides a visualisation of the fl ow of air pollution around cities, so that air quality data can be correlated with infrastructure and social metrics. EarthSense is also able to model air quality and provide predictions so that traffi c managers, for example, can make live decisions that minimise air pollution.
The Zephyr® is an indicative ambient air quality monitor that accurately measures harmful gases and particle matter, providing real-time data to detect trends and identify pollution hotspots. As a scalable solution, networks of monitors can be easily deployed in the development of smarter and cleaner towns and cities.
AQE’s Best Air Quality Network Monitoring Award:
Kunak At AQE 2022, Spanish manufacturer Kunak Technologies won the Smart Network Monitoring award for the Kunak AIR Pro. To get all of the details on the instrument and fi nd out why Kunak made the journey to exhibit at AQE this year, International Environmental Technology spoke to Edurne Ibarrola, the fi rm’s Chief Scientifi c Offi cer.
“The Kunak AIR Pro is our air quality monitoring station, which measures different gas parameters and particles. It has a cartridge system: the sensors are embedded within each cartridge which itself contains all of the capacity for different confi guration and calibration parameters. Using electrochemical cells, it knows how to deal with all of the environmental conditions. All of this data, monitoring in real-time, is sent to our air quality software, the Kunak Cloud,”
Then, we discussed the benefi ts of exhibiting at AQE as an international company.
“Well, AQE gives you the chance to learn about the UK market, which is quite diffi cult when you’re based abroad in another country. It gives you a chance to get to know what other sensor manufacturers and developers like us are doing, as well as the chance to meet with companies which might need to measure air quality in different applications or projects. So, it’s been really helpful for opening up our company to the UK market.”
IET NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2022
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