Month: July 2019

Review: Atmotube Pro

Sotirios Papathanasiou7 Comments

Wearable or portable devices are not so often considered important in order to protect yourself from air pollution. Most ads claim that we spend 90% indoors and we need an indoor AQ Monitor which is true but we also move around we go to work or we visit friends and family who don’t have an AQM in their house or simple they are not aware of the problem.

Here comes the new Atmotube PRO a small portable AQM equipped with a laser scattering PM1, PM2.5 and PM10 sensor. It also features a VOC sensor and a complete weather station with humidity, temperature and barometric sensor.Read More »

EGYPT – Air Pollution

Sotirios Papathanasiou1 Comment

Recently, I travelled to Egypt and I had the pleasure to visit and see many fantastic and immense monuments like the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Abu Simbel temples and many others. A fantastic journey through ancient Egypt which literally transfers you to this great ancient civilization.

It rarely rains in Egypt and the temperature in summer can easily reach 48ºC/118ºF. That said, the Sahara desert plays an important role in the climate and air quality of the country. Particulate Matter is the main natural air pollutant and impossible to combat.

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