Airlab Micro-sensor Challenge 2021: 58 solutions evaluated during the summer

Airparif and its partners via AIRLAB have launched the "Challenge Micro-sensors 2021". The Challenge jury selected 33 companies to test their devices.

Published 15 / 02 / 2021

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Ⓒ Airparif

Reliable air quality information is the basis for understanding and action to improve air quality. New pollution measurement technologies are being developed and miniaturized. More and more "cheap" solutions are available for sale, but how effective are they in terms of their uses? Airparif and its partners via AIRLAB have launched the "Micro-sensor Challenge 2021". The Challenge jury selected 33 companies to test their devices. In the coming months, Airparif's metrology laboratory, in collaboration with Atmo Hauts-de-France, will evaluate 55 solutions out of more than 20 evaluation points.

Accuracy, usefulness, usability, portability and costs are all criteria that Airparif and its partners propose to assess within the framework of this AIRLAB Challenge. In order to enlighten, in complete transparency, users on the adequacy of the product with the uses, the Micro-sensors can compete in 8 categories responding to uses such as outdoor air quality, indoor air quality, mobility individual, indicative measures, etc. (list of categories available below).

All of this independent evaluation will be published in the fall of 2021 and will provide visibility on the performance of the Micro-sensors currently on the market according to their uses. This challenge will highlight the qualities of these devices and ways to improve them in order to encourage innovation or even technological breakthroughs to contribute to the development of an emerging market. Starting in the fall, the most relevant sensors will be deployed as part of AIRLAB projects in the areas of connected buildings and citizen participation.
This Challenge is part of the activities of AIRLAB, an air quality solutions accelerator, which aims to promote and coordinate innovation in the field of air quality.

The 2021 edition

The "AIRLAB Micro-sensors 2021" Challenge is organized by Airparif and Atmo Hauts-de-France. of List of successful candidates: 

3Castagni, AGRICOPE, Airlabs, Airly, ATMOTTRACK, betair, Decentlab, DomNexX, EarthSense, ECOMESURE, eLichens, ENVEA, Ether, inBiot,
IQ Air, Kaiterra, KUNAK, magnasci, Meo, NanoSense, nexelec, RUBIX, Sensilla, Sensirion, sensorbee, SGS, South Coast, TERA, TSI, Vaisala, VOCSense
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More information :

List of the 8 categories:

  • raise awareness of outdoor air quality;
  • raise awareness of indoor air quality;
  • raise awareness of air quality in mobility (vehicle);
  • raise awareness of the quality of the air encountered during your daily activities; 
  • document personal exposure to pollution for the purpose of health interpretations; 
  • control and manage the air in a building;  
  • monitor outdoor air quality;
  • monitor indoor air quality.

With the support of :

Atmo FranceFederal Laboratory for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA) in Switzerland, FIMEA, theIndoor Air Quality Observatory, Lab'Aireka, Incub'Air, Scientific and Technical Center for BuildingInterreg TransfAIR project of the'European Union and World Meteorological Organization. It is co-financed by Airparif, theFrench Development Agency, the Ecological Transition Agency (ADEME)EDF,  DIM QI2 "Air Quality Research Network in Île-de-France"Atmo Hauts-de-FranceAtmo NormandyAtmo Great EastSouth AtmoAtmo Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes et Qualitair Corsica.