Development of an Air Quality Monitor for Increased Productivity

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In the modern world, air pollution in densely populated areas is increasingly becoming more of a problem.This is well known to affect personal health negatively, but lesser known is also the impact on productivityand human cognition. With products for measuring air quality is a developed market the products connectingit to productivity and providing recommendations to improve it are far less. This thesis is therefore set out toexplore the effects on productivity from poor air quality and to develop a product as a solution.Air quality is found to affect productivity through many metrics; temperature, humidity, volatile organic compounds,carbon dioxide and particulate matter are some of the most impactful parameters and becomes the aimto monitor for this project. It is found that productivity in a poorly ventilated room, which is not that uncommon,can degrade by as much as 50% [1]. Creating awareness of this effect could possibly increase humanproductivity around the world by a significant margin and result in overall improvements.For the product to be successful it has to comply with the current market and user needs. This is therefore animportant research topic sought to understand for the development of the product. A thorough and systematicproduct development methodology has been used to arrive at an optimal concept solution for the air qualitymonitor. As a goal and for introduction to the market, a minimum viable product has been developed with thepurpose of giving users an initial understanding of the monitor. This prototype is used as proof of concept andto communicate the project proposal to external parties