An Air Quality Monitoring Station in a Chip

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Air Pollution is the world’s worst environmental health risk: 8.8 million people die every year as a result of air pollution exposure. Consequently, increasingly stringent legislations on air quality (AQ) are being implemented worldwide. To enforce these policies reliable AQ must be monitored. There is an urgent need to bring to the market devices that can complement current air quality monitoring stations delivering equally accurate data and covering a much wider territory. Low-cost air pollution sensors are expected to become a game changer in monitoring pollution. The business opportunity is huge: the overall environmental sensor market is projected to reach €1.93 billion by 2023. At Insplorion, an innovative Swedish company, we have developed and patented a new sensor technology based on our Nano Plasmonic Sensing platform (NPS), which enables us to overcome the shortcomings associated with current low-cost sensors such as low sensitivity and instability. InAir is a revolutionary miniaturized and multiplexed portable gas sensor optimised for highly selective and sensitive detection of the most relevant urban air pollutants: NOx, CO, SO2 and O3. In addition, its miniaturisation and easiness of integration into any device, opens up several business opportunities in the field of AQ monitoring, beyond the field of urban air pollution. InAir is the answer to the urgently needed breakthroughs in AQ sensor technology. It will empower public authorities by providing them with real-time reliable AQ data covering a wide territory, enabling the analysis of air pollution sources and the implementation of air pollution abatement measures. InAir will boost the growth of Insplorion with revenues surpassing the €39 million in the 5th year after market uptake and the creation of more than 20 new positions mostly in the R&D, up-scaling, international sales and financial departments.