Is the air quality in your house really clean?
| Oct 8, 2018, 17:10 IST
Imagine being able to see the micropollutants that pollute the air around your house. Will you still continue with the way you clean your house or will you opt for something better? A new study has found that by asking people to visualise the air quality in their house, they could get people to be cleaner. Lead author Jason Wiese said, “The idea behind this study was to help people understand something about this invisible air quality in their home.”
It turns out that during the day, the quality of air inside one's house can be worse than outside their house owing to factors like vacuuming, cooking, dusting etc. This can result in health problems for people with breathing issues like asthma. The researchers built a series of portable air quality monitors with Wi-Fi which were connected to the University servers.
People were then given a voice-activated speaker that alerted them to the rapid changes in the quality of air in their house. This helped them figure out when the air quality was the worst such as when they were cooking or vacuuming the house. The researchers also found that if people were able to visualise what the air quality in their homes looked like, they stayed on top of collecting data and marking the differences. Stay tuned for more updates.
It turns out that during the day, the quality of air inside one's house can be worse than outside their house owing to factors like vacuuming, cooking, dusting etc. This can result in health problems for people with breathing issues like asthma. The researchers built a series of portable air quality monitors with Wi-Fi which were connected to the University servers.
People were then given a voice-activated speaker that alerted them to the rapid changes in the quality of air in their house. This helped them figure out when the air quality was the worst such as when they were cooking or vacuuming the house. The researchers also found that if people were able to visualise what the air quality in their homes looked like, they stayed on top of collecting data and marking the differences. Stay tuned for more updates.