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Why big city fitness gyms need to install clean air tech.
Third article in half a month on “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” bad LA air days Yet another bad air day in Los Angeles last night (see app screenshot) [originally published Jan 23, 2014]. We’ve now done three articles on ‘Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups’ bad air days in Los Angeles due to the Colby Fire and random automobile pollution just in the month of January alone. Incidentally, those “sensitive groups” involve working out at the fitness gym, which we’ll talk a bit more about in a bit. Despite a serious air purifier, our indoor PM2.5 dust particle counts on our Laser Particle Counter spiked around 10:30 PM Pacific Time yesterday, so we knew something was up. Running the numbers through our free app, they were starting to get bad. The EPA was still showing PM2.5 levels in the area as “moderate”, but EPA data is weighted average of 4-hour and 24-hour data (it sort of has to be), so it is delayed.… Read the restWildfire zone? Tech recommendations.
We saw our indoor PM2.5 counts skyrocket earlier this evening [originally published: Jan 18, 2014]. Los Angeles is essentially in a wildfire zone, so that smokey smell in the air gave us a suspicion of what this might be. We were waiting for the EPA numbers to catch up. 11:38 PM Pacific it finally has. EPA’s AQI had been hovering around 100 AQI (which is borderline between Moderate and ‘Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups’). With the 11:30 PM update, the air finally broke through in the Orange “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups.” (Of course, keep in mind that the EPA numbers are time-averaged, a weighted average of a 4-hour and 24-hour average. So the air may have been bad for a while. And, we’re using the Central LA stations readings here; air quality will be different in different parts of LA.) As we mentioned in our earlier Colby fire post, the good news is you now, finally, have tools to take control of your indoor air quality.… Read the restGood tech for wildfire preparation.
If you live near in a wildfire zone you basically need our app in your wildfire preparation kit. Thanks to the latest dust sensors, combined with EPA data, we have a unique perspective of how the Colby Fire affected our air quality in Los Angeles. Finally, the technology is affordable that let’s you take control of your indoor air quality in these kinds of situations. If you live in a wildfire zone you might want to make this tech part of your wildfire preparation kit. Although the EPA has declared an “Action Day” for our area today [originally published: Jan 16, 2014], we’re not seeing a big impact in air quality where we are (near Beverly Hills) yet. EPA has PM2.5 at “moderate” which is in the yellow, but fairly typical for LA (and by no means the worst we have seen, thanks to automobiles, not forest fires.) With air purification (check out our recommendations), our indoor air quality is actually pretty good at the moment.… Read the restBad air pollution day in your city? Here’s the tech to get.
Sensor and purifier recommendations for a bad air day Saturday (Jan 4, 2014) we knew something was wrong in Los Angeles. Like any tech startup, we were in the office working, when our indoor dust sensor (& this less expensive version that we also support) started showing PM2.5 air pollution particle counts off the scale without any good (indoor) reason for the air being that bad. This despite our highly-regarded heavy-duty air purifier being on the maximum “Turbo” setting. PM2.5 dust levels to remember Since we weren’t running any indoor polluters (like a dishwasher or gas appliance), bad outdoor air could be the only reason. Sure enough, we checked with our iOS app. Los Angeles air was in the orange “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” some of the worst air quality we’ve ever seen with our app in Los Angeles. (We did see the air quality in San Jose deteriorate all the way into the brown or “Unhealthy” region right before Thanksgiving, maybe because of the all the cars and airplanes accommodating travelers.… Read the restRecent Comments
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