World Environment Day: MeitY Secretary launches indigenous Air Quality Monitoring System

New Delhi: The Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), S Krishnan, has inaugurated an indigenous Air Quality Monitoring System (AQ-AIMS) and launched Air-Pravah App on World Environment Day on Wednesday. These have been developed under MeitY-supported technologies. “It is a very cost effective, ‘Make-in-India’ solution, which is available in three variants depending upon the needs of industries. The system has been thoroughly tested and validated for various parameters of air,” said the Secretary.

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Additional Secretary Bhuvanesh Kumar said, “MeitY is supporting R&D activities from proof of concept to product development to cater to the growing needs of the industries.” The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) mentioned that the developed system will be helpful in providing various environmental clearances.

Indigenous air quality monitoring system

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Kolkata, in collaboration with TeXMIN (ISM, Dhanbad) and industry partner JM Envirolab Pvt Ltd, under the ‘National programme on Electronics and ICT applications in Agriculture and Environment (AgriEnIcs),’ has developed an outdoor air quality monitoring system to monitor environmental pollutants which includes parameters like PM 1.0, PM 2.5, PM 10, SO2, NO2, O3, CO, CO2, temperature, humidity, etc, for continuous air quality monitoring.

After successful field trial and certification from National Physical Laboratory, Delhi, TUV India, Pune, the system is being commercialised by the ToT partner M/s J M Envirolab Pvt Ltd. Efforts have been made for availibity of AQ-AIMS system through the GeM portal. The technology is replacing the conventional gold standard instruments at a fraction of the cost, with its groundbreaking, cost-effective solution developed under the ‘Make in India’ initiative, said a statement.

The AQ-AIMS comes with a mobile application named “Air-Pravah” for real-time Air Quality Index (AQI) monitoring. It offers quick setup, real-time data visualisation, unit conversions, AQI comparison, multi-device support, data analysis tools, remote monitoring and automatic updates. It will be available on Android play stores, and the app is being activated by registering with the unique device ID of the AQ-AIMS device.

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