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What your students can investigate

  • Watch smog form in real time: track how nitrogen dioxide, sunlight, and ozone cycle through the day, and connect the spikes to traffic and time of day. The photochemical reaction, live on screen.
  • Measure the gas that ripens a banana: capture ethylene off fruit and prove that "one bad apple spoils the bunch" with their own data.
  • Bottle a fermentation: seal yeast in a jar and watch ethanol and hydrogen climb as the microbes go to work.
  • Hunt down a smell: trace decomposition, compost, and the nitrogen cycle through your schoolyard or a wetland.
  • Audit their own classroom air: sniff out formaldehyde off new furniture, carbon monoxide near a garage, or ozone from a printer, and ask what's healthy to breathe.
  • Connect a sensor to a volcano: link sulfur dioxide readings to real volcanic vog and island air quality (a natural fit for any Earth science or Hawaii unit).
  • Compare the air across a community: measure contaminants near a highway, a park, and home, then ask why some neighborhoods breathe dirtier air than others.

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Supplying an Entire Class?
 

Meet AirQ, the air quality detective. 

Science can save the world.

  • Stream and record data in real-time, then analyze it in PocketLab Notebook

  • Compatible with iOS, Android, Chrome OS, Windows 10, and Mac OS

  • Bluetooth 4.2 wireless connection 

  • Record up to 30,000 measurements to the onboard memory

  • Rechargeable lithium-polymer battery

  • Carbon Dioxide

  • Particulate Matter

  • Humidity

  • AQI

  • Dew Point

  • Heat Index

 

  • Temperature (Ambient)

  • Barometric Pressure

  • Light Intensity

  • Altitude

  • Air Contaminants (PPM in AQ Units) 
    • Hydrogen Sulfide
    • Formaldehyde
    • Ethylene
    • Nitric Oxide
    • Ethanol
    • Carbon Monoxide
    • Sulfur Dioxide
    • Hydrogen
    • Nitrogen Dioxide
    • Chlorine
    • Ozone
    • Ammonia

  • PocketLab AirQ Sensor

  • USB charging cable

  • Protective Storage Case

PocketLab AirQ Sensor Specifications

 

Carbon Dioxide   Barometric Pressure
Range 0 - 5000 ppm   Range 300 - 1100 hPa
Resolution 1 ppm      
Absolute Accuracy ± 50 ppm with calibration      
 
Air Contaminants (Total contaminants)   Humidity
Range -20 - 1450 units   Range 0-100 %RH
Resolution 1 unit   Resolution 0.02 %RH
Data Rate 1-50   Absolute Accuracy 3 %RH
 
Particulate Matter (PM1.0, PM2.5, PM10)   Light
Range 0 - 500 ug/m3   Range 0.01 - 140,000 Lux
Resolution 1 ug/m3   Spectrum 450 - 940 nm (Visible light)
Data Rat ± 10%   Data Rate 30 samples/sec
 
Altitude   Ambient Temperature
Range -5,300 - 9,500 m (-17,400 - 31,000 ft)   Range -40 - 65 C (-40 - 149 F)
Resolution 11 cm (4 in)   Resolution 0.01 C (0.02 F)
Absolute Accuracy 10 m (33 ft)   Absolute Accuracy 0.5 C (0.9 F)
Data Rate 50 samples/sec      
 
Air Quality Index    
Range 0 - 500 units      
Resolution 1 unit      
Why PocketLab AirQ?

The PocketLab AirQ multi-sensor is powerful enough for air quality & climate researchers, yet easy and rugged enough for anyone to use and start collecting data right away. 

AirQ brings together everything a citizen scientist needs in one, durable device. It’s a science lab powerful enough for professional-grade air research that we thought should be compact and user-friendly enough to put the power directly in the hands of the next generation.

 

Measuring Air Contaminants

One Number. The Whole Story of the Air.

Students can't see the air they breathe. This sensor turns it into something they can count, chart, and argue about in a single contamination reading that climbs and falls in real time as the room changes around them.

It doesn't tell you which contaminant. It tells you how much. And for a science classroom, that's exactly the point.

 

PocketLab AirQ in the Wild

We've even sent PocketLab Air to the Amazon Rainforest with the Morpho Institute, proving it to be a great tool for data collection in the wild and in the classroom!

 

Design hundreds of science experiments covering physics, engineering, Earth science, chemistry, and biology. Imagine measuring the air quality of a schoolyard, the lunchroom, and students’ homes, or tracking the changes throughout the year and comparing to historical climate data for any region. Get outside and redefine a walk in the park by watching live data appear on the screen and update as you walk. Grab one for fun, or choose a bundle that includes everything you need for a classroom full of citizen scientists.

  • Investigate the air quality in any community and produce research-quality results

  • Empower citizen scientists by making air quality data personal and involving students in gathering real-world information

  • Save the budget by replacing boxes of equipment with this powerful multi-sensor functionality. 

  • Stream data in real-time to Chromebook, iPads, and almost any computer, smartphone, or device. 

  • Simplify lesson planning with our no-prep lab solution that combines PocketLab AirQ with PocketLab Notebook, a digital science platform and lesson library.

PocketLab AirQ puts the power in the hands of every citizen scientist who is ready to make a difference through data.

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