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  • Scentroid DR1000 Pollution Monitoring Lab is Presented at AQ Exhibition in South Korea

    Scentroid DR1000 Pollution Monitoring Lab is Presented at AQ Exhibition in South Korea

    Unmanned aerial vehicles are no longer a thing of the future. They are part of our everyday life.

    KJN Technologies recently presented the Scentroid DR1000 Pollution Monitoring Lab features, applications, and data quality at the Air Quality Exhibition of South Korea.

    Traditionally, ground-based monitoring usually conducts air quality assessments. However, manned aircraft and satellites continue to do so today. In addition, performing fast, comprehensive data collection near pollution sources is not always feasible. This is because of the complexity of sites, moving sources or physical barriers.

    With the DR1000 Pollution monitoring lab, All that is required is to fly the drone up to the stack height, and full information including all sensors reading, humidity, temperature and GPS position will be sent to the ground station and the cloud-based monitoring software automatically.

    Equipping small unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) with the Scentroid DR1000 and sensor technology allows the full utilization of air quality monitoring. They offer new approaches and research opportunities in air pollution and emission monitoring. They also present an opportunity to study atmospheric trends, such as climate change while ensuring urban and industrial air safety.

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  • Police using Scentroid’s Drone Environmental Monitoring to Combat Smog

    Police using Scentroid’s Drone Environmental Monitoring to Combat Smog

    It is a belief that smog kills more than 47,000 people each year in Poland alone. Smog levels increase in winters mostly due to the burning of solid fuels for residential heating.  On some winter days, a haze obscures the lights of Polish city skyscrapers and the air smells like burning plastic. Millions of citizens heat their homes with low-quality coal, scrap pieces of wood, and even garbage. This releases not only smog but dangerous chemicals – an act that is illegal under Polish law. Katowice city in southern Poland, with a population of 297,197 is a large coal and steel center in Poland. It is also one of the most polluted cities in Europe. Polish authorities put into action to use drone environmental monitoring to combat this smog.

    Drone Environmental Monitoring

    In Katowice, the city police began fighting polluters using the Scentroid DR1000 Flying lab. The DR1000 is capable of detecting hundreds of pollutants, but for this application, it is detecting Particulate PM1-10, Ethanol, Formaldehyde, Ammonia, and Hydrogen Chloride.

    These chemicals provide evidence of the burning of low-quality coal, scrap wood pieces, or even garbage.

    Special Police Environmental units deploy the drone in residential neighbourhoods, monitoring for elevated levels of pollutants. They cover a large area and the DR1000 will take readings from specific chimneys. The operator and central station receive all readings live. At this point, dispatched police inspectors conduct further investigation or issue additional fines. The DR1000 Drone Environmental Monitor grabs samples from smokestacks to be sent to a laboratory if further evidence is required.

    Ease of Use

    The Scentroid DR1000 Flying laboratory equipped with 5 sensors is used for fast inspections and continuous monitoring of multiple chemicals. All you need to do is to fly the drone up to the stack height, and full information including all sensors reading, humidity, temperature and GPS position are sent to the ground station and the cloud-based monitoring software automatically.

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