article thumbnail

UK firm presents “game-changing” solution to monitoring indoor air quality

Envirotec Magazine

Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is a global concern for health, wellbeing and productivity as people spend 90% of their time indoors, where IAQ can be up to 7 times worse than outdoor air quality. million UK homes are hazardous to health, with a cost to the NHS of more than £1 billion per year.

article thumbnail

Strengthen red route pollution monitoring to save lives, says London air report

Envirotec Magazine

The report makes a number of recommendations to the Mayor of London to tackle the city’s air pollution, including: Strengthen monitoring of pollution from London’s red routes and incorporate new monitoring of air quality emissions for the Silvertown Tunnel project.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Building the business case for satellite IoT

Envirotec Magazine

Eric Menard is Vice President Strategy and Business with Swiss satellite communications firm Astrocast. Weather monitoring stations are transforming the efficiency and environmental performance of remote copper mines and helping farmers to safeguard crops and livestock in a changing climate.

IoT 130
article thumbnail

How remote monitoring can contribute to operational success

Envirotec Magazine

Whether it is to minimise the impact of increasingly extreme weather events, reducing health risks or simply to streamline operational expenditure – digital monitoring and remote services can provide long term value. There may be a number of reasons why businesses need to operate as usual but with a reduced number of people on site.

article thumbnail

Safety and efficiency through proactive action

Envirotec Magazine

Given the stringent health and safety and environmental regulations in place, businesses are looking to system suppliers who know the value – both in terms of safety and efficiency – of early gas detection. When a leak occurs, the system must work harder to maintain function, leading to sizable increases in both energy usage and costs.

article thumbnail

An asset to assets? Real-time condition monitoring extends equipment lifetime

Envirotec Magazine

It brings increasing maintenance awareness of asset health and performance, thus reducing maintenance costs and unplanned downtime, says the firm, a part of NOV Inc. ” GoConnect can be user-customized and alert-configured to capture vibration, temperature and pressure to digitally monitor otherwise unidentifiable performance issues. .”

article thumbnail

Amnesty International: Dow’s failure to offer remedy for Bhopal disaster has created a “sacrifice zone”

Envirotec Magazine

Amnesty International is calling on companies and states to consider withholding business from Dow unless it recognizes its human rights responsibilities and takes meaningful and rapid action to redress these harms. It helped shield the companies from attempts to hold them accountable and reinforced the unequal power dynamics involved.

Soil 349