The Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Monitor System project focuses on designing a system to track various metrics for air quality inside the SSH's interior ventilation system. The project is intended to interface with the SSH's existing smart-home automation system and Energy Recovery Ventilator (ERV) unit to maintain ideal indoor air quality.
The sponsor for this project was Dr. Bing Chen, and its duration was 2023 - 2024.
Capstone Team Members:
- Mason Szymczak
- Dylan Bobbett
- Max Wilmes
- Sean Feagan
Abstract:
The airtight structure of the Sustainable Small House poses a number of unique challenges, one of which being the potential for contaminants resulting from food preparation or usage of cleaning product to become trapped within the house's interior ventilation system. As such, the SSH requires systems for monitoring and controlling indoor air quality to mitigate the physical and mental health effects of poor air quality. This project fulfill this required niche by devising a microprocessor based air monitoring system for tracking temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide levels, carbon monoxide levels, volume of PM2.5 particulate matter, and formaldehyde levels. This IAQ monitor system interfaces with the SSH's smart-home system to share historical data at hourly intervals and control air exchange through the ERV unit.
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