Invisible Compliance Gaps
Manual sampling and infrequent measurement miss acute pollution events that breach regulatory limits, creating undetected compliance exposure for operators and municipalities.
Solution pack / Magistrala
Air Quality Monitoring
Deploy a comprehensive air quality monitoring network across indoor and outdoor environments. The Air Quality & Compliance Pack connects multi-pollutant sensors to real-time dashboards, automated regulatory reporting, and public health alert systems, pre-configured and ready in minutes.
Why Magistrala
Magistrala's scalable message ingestion and persistent time-series storage provide the data fidelity and retention that regulatory compliance frameworks require, while the built-in rule engine automates the threshold monitoring that would otherwise demand custom application development.
Explore the platformPlatform dashboards
See it in action.
Purpose-built dashboards for every layer of your air quality monitoring deployment.
The challenge
Air quality risks are invisible until harm is done
Pollutant exposure impacts public health, productivity, and regulatory compliance, but without continuous monitoring, exceedances go undetected for hours or days.
Public Health Risk
Without real-time AQI monitoring, vulnerable populations (schools, hospitals, care homes) aren't notified during high-pollution events when protective action is needed.
Manual Reporting Burden
Compiling regulatory submissions from manual sampling and disparate sensor logs is time-consuming, error-prone, and creates delays in compliance reporting.
How it works
From device
to insight.
From sensor network to regulatory report: continuous and automated.
- 01
Measure
Multi-pollutant sensors stream PM2.5, PM10, CO₂, NO₂, O₃, and VOC readings at 1-minute intervals via MQTT into pre-built pollutant-specific channels.
- 02
Contextualize
Readings are tagged with sensor location, zone type (indoor/outdoor/industrial), and correlated with meteorological data for dispersion context and regulatory categorization.
- 03
Alert
WHO, EPA, and EU Air Quality Directive threshold rules fire alarms at configurable warning and limit values. AQI category transitions trigger real-time notifications to operators and public systems.
- 04
Report
Automated daily summaries and monthly trend reports compile verified sensor data into regulatory-format exports. Industrial boundary exceedance logs are generated automatically for permit compliance.
Applications
Key Applications
Air quality monitoring deployments using this pack
Urban AQI Networks
Dense sensor networks across city districts provide neighbourhood-level air quality data for public information systems and pollution mapping.
Indoor Air Quality Management
CO₂ and VOC monitoring in offices, schools, and public buildings drives HVAC automation and ventilation alerts to maintain healthy indoor environments.
Industrial Boundary Monitoring
Perimeter sensor networks at industrial facilities continuously monitor regulated pollutants, providing automated permit compliance evidence and exceedance alerts.
Regulatory Compliance Reporting
Automated generation of regulatory-format air quality reports for environmental agency submissions, reducing compliance administration overhead significantly.
Benefits
What you get
out of the box.
- Detect regulatory exceedances in real time, minutes after they occur, not days after manual review
- Protect public health with automated AQI alerts for sensitive locations like schools and hospitals
- Eliminate manual reporting labour with automated regulatory submission reports
- Deploy anywhere from urban ambient networks to industrial boundary monitoring with the same platform
- WHO, EPA, and EU Air Quality Directive thresholds are pre-configured and adjustable per jurisdiction
- Multi-tenant architecture lets environmental agencies manage multiple operator networks from one platform
FAQ
Common questions.
What pollutants and sensor types does the Air Quality pack support?
Magistrala natively supports MQTT, HTTP, CoAP, and WebSocket. PM2.5, PM10, NO2, O3, CO, SO2, VOC, and CO2 sensors from major vendors are supported, both indoors and outdoors. Sensors using Modbus or LoRaWAN connect via an external protocol adapter.
How are AQI thresholds configured for different regulatory standards?
WHO, US EPA, and EU Air Quality Directive thresholds are pre-configured as default rule templates. Each threshold set is adjustable per sensor, location, or jurisdiction. Regulatory standard updates can be applied by editing rule parameters.
How does the platform handle multi-site monitoring networks?
Each monitoring station or network zone is organized as a Magistrala domain with its own sensors, rules, and access policies. Environmental agencies can manage multiple operator networks from a single platform while maintaining strict data isolation.
How are automated compliance reports generated?
Compliance reports are generated on a configurable daily, weekly, or monthly schedule from raw sensor data. Reports include hourly averages, exceedance counts, and station metadata in formats accepted by major regulatory submission portals.
Your next step
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Air Quality Monitoring?
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