Have you ever wondered if you’ve been exposed to toxic air? Don’t wait until it is too late, get phone alerts if there is a potential danger in the air you’re breathing. Atmotube, a tiny pollution sensor, allows its users to track the air quality in any location they might be in, outdoors or indoors. The device can be yours for only $79.
The tiny sensor is the perfect portable device; place it in your pocket or hook it to your key chain. Atmotube’s tube casting is made of stainless steel so it doesn’t set off any unnecessary alarms. The air quality tracker links to a smartphone app which lets the user know the quality of the air a user is breathing. The sensor is able to read different air components that might affect your lungs, such as: volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide, allergens, etc.
This is not the first device of its kind. The University of California, San Diego built an air quality sensor, CitySense, that also links to a smartphone app. Intel built a similar device, Common Sense Project, that measured the air in West Oakland. The difference between Atmotube and both devices mentioned above is that the devices were only concept projects while Atmotube is a device that is currently being manufactured and sold to customers.
The pollution sensor measures air quality and a user can receive real-time results through the smartphone application. The air quality tracker has a button that the user can set to manually test the air quality or set to test it every 10 seconds on a continuous mode. Atmotube’s battery life can last one month if the user sets the device to test the air quality every 60 seconds. If the air quality decreases the smartphone application will send you an alert notification. The application ranks the air quality from 0-100, 0 meaning extremely toxic air quality and 100 meaning the freshest air quality.
The state-of-the-art technology involved in the portable air quality tracker makes this device the perfect candidate to claim the Research and Development (R&D) Tax Credit. This type of federal and state tax incentive can be obtained by companies that create innovative technology like Autmotube since it’s a groundbreaking device in the air quality tracking field. To learn more about these federal and state tax credits visit the Indago website www.indagotax.com or email us at [email protected]