03.04.2012                      11.Nissan. 5772

Umwelt:

Bringing instant air monitoring to crisis situation

Israel-based company deploys new mobile, wireless air quality measurement module.

In the aftermath of a fire or other disaster, one consideration that often ends up on the backburner in the resultant chaos that befalls a city is air quality.
To account for this neglected need, AirBase Systems, an Israel- and Berlin-based environmental technology start-up, launched on Monday its new CanarIT S.O.S system, low-cost emergency air monitoring kits designed primarily for city use. The $20,000 kits, which are made up of 20 battery- operated CanarIT units, monitor levels of several noxious elements and can immediately transmit data to an Internet collection base, according to the company….