Indoor air quality significantly impacts the health, well-being, productivity, and overall quality of life for occupants of both commercial and residential buildings. Research has shown that poor indoor air quality can lead to a range of health issues, including respiratory problems, allergies, asthma, and even long-term chronic illnesses. Healthy building standards, such as the RESET Air Standard, provide a framework to ensure the creation of healthier and more sustainable built environments. RESET strongly believes that you cannot effectively solve what you cannot measure. It therefore focuses on data quality and transparency, promoting continuous monitoring and data collection via standardization to drive awareness, visibility, and effective solutions for indoor air quality challenges.
To ensure high data quality, RESET accredits indoor air quality monitors that meet their standards with the RESET Air Certification, making them eligible for RESET projects. To obtain this certification the following five environmental parameters need to be tracked through continuous real time monitoring: CO2, Particulate Matter (PM2.5), Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC), Relative Humidity (RH), and Temperature (T). This is where Sensirion comes into play.