Palas AQ Guard
Freelance Project, 2019
Redesign of two different public air quality monitors. Successfully published Product by client.
Amidst the pandemic, air quality monitors rose in popularity. Air quality monitors provide vital data about the quality of our indoor air, identifying potential risks. Their ability to detect airborne particles, including those potentially carrying viruses, positioned them as essential tools.
My contribution to this project: reconstruction of the layout of electronics and sensor technologies, redesign and choice of color, material and finish, graphic on product, suspension and locking mechanism, concept renderings.
Below are the official product renders.
The use of fine dust devices is known so far from laboratories, where under special conditions the quality of the air must be measured and regulated. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, optimal air quality in other enclosed spaces – whether public or private – became more important than ever. With its products, the company is the market leader in the development and production of filter test stands and optical aerosol spectrometers.
Being in environments of high levels of particulate matter pollution has a similar effect on our health as smoking cigarettes and high carbon dioxide levels has a negative impact on cognitive development and function, especially for children.
Although the device cannot detect viruses like the coronavirus, it can detect high CO2 levels from exhaled air indoors, which is a good indicator of the risk level of infection in the environment.
It can be placed on a surface either indoors or outdoors, or be hung on a wall with the integrated wall mount.