Piera’s intelligent particle sensors with AI identify sources of indoor pollutants including vape, smoke Mississauga, Ontario, Canada October 02, 2024 – Piera Systems Inc., today announces its Canāree IX6 Vape Detector with Noise Monitoring has been selected as a Vendor of Record (VOR) by Supply Ontario, for the Province of Ontario’s Initiative to reduce vaping in school buildings and other…
A diverse global coalition of scientists, air quality experts, and industry leaders has united to establish the Global Open Air Quality Standards (GO AQS), an unprecedented initiative aimed at creating universal indoor air quality (IAQ) standards. This groundbreaking effort seeks to ensure that everyone, regardless of location or socio-economic status, has access to the knowledge and tools needed to enhance…
Recognized as a Finalist in the AI/Machine Learning Category for Classifying Pollutants using Industry’s most accurate low-cost PM sensor Mississauga, Ontario, CN, June 05, 2024 – Piera Systems, today announces it has been named a finalist in the AI/Machine Learning category of the 2024 Best of Sensors Awards for Classifying Pollutants using Industry’s most accurate low-cost PM sensor. The awards…
MACSO, an Auckland-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) start-up has developed technology to combat the escalating vaping issue within schools and public spaces. Funded by US investors, the company aims to identify and quantify air pollutants specifically from vape and cigarette smoke. Trials have already exhibited a reduction in illicit vaping within one New Zealand middle school. MACSO’s collaboration with US company,…
Particulate Matter is the term for particles in the air we breathe most of which are invisible due to their size and thanks to recent research fueled by the pandemic, wildfires, and climate change, we know that these particles are a major health threat. For Covid, influenza and other viruses, airborne transmission is how people get infected. When an infected…
Scottsdale, Arizona and Mississauga, Ontario – May 23, 2023. Piera Systems Inc. (“Piera”) today announced that its ground-breaking Canāree Air Quality Monitor has won the 2023 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Award for Best Enterprise Edge AI End Product. The announcement was made at the Embedded Vision Summit in Santa Clara, CA. The highly accurate Canāree family…
Scottsdale, AZ – Mar 16, 2023. Piera Systems Inc. (“Piera”) and MACSO Technologies (“MACSO”) are excited to announce their strategic partnership to combine Piera’s state of the art hardware and accurate air quality data with MACSO’s AI/ML software platform to greatly accelerate the development and deployment of new pollutant models. While existing air quality monitors are able to notify their…
Las Vegas, NV – Jan 5, 2023. Piera Systems Inc. (“Piera”) is excited to announce the Model E from co2.click, an innovative air quality monitor that combines accurate CO2 monitoring with the ground-breaking IPS-7100 particle sensor from Piera to provide comprehensive measurement of air quality. The Model E is available for pre-ordering now from co2.click for $370 CAD. The…
Scottsdale, Arizona and Mississauga, Ontario – Nov 21, 2022. Piera Systems Inc. (“Piera”) today announced that it has been named a CES® 2023 Innovation Awards Honoree for its ground-breaking Canāree Air Quality Monitor family of products. This year’s CES Innovation Awards program received a record high number of over 2100 submissions. The announcement was made ahead of CES 2023, the…
Scottsdale, Arizona – Sep 6, 2022. Piera Systems (“Piera”) is pleased to announce the signing of a reseller agreement with Log6 Solutions (“Log6”), a Los Angeles based company offering innovative indoor air safety solutions. Under this agreement, Log6 will market, sell, and distribute the highly accurate Canāree™ family of Air Quality Monitors as part of their drive to improving safety…
Allowing poor air quality in schools isn’t an issue to overlook. Studies have shown that air pollution in both indoor and outdoor spaces can have physical and psychological effects. Among the individuals most vulnerable to these effects are children, due to their developing immune systems. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently conducted a review of numerous existing studies concerning…
Scottsdale, Arizona – May 4, 2022. Piera Systems (“Piera”) is pleased to announce the signing of a reseller agreement with Secure Agility, an IT services leader headquartered in Burwood, NSW, Australia. Secure Agility will market, sell, and distribute the highly accurate Canāree™ family of Air Quality Monitors as part of their focus on applying emerging technologies to deliver real transformation…
Scottsdale, Arizona – Mar 15, 2022. Piera Systems (“Piera”) is pleased to announce a collaboration with Sensorbee in its release of highly accurate Outdoor Air Quality Monitors (“AQM”). Sensorbee, based out of Linkoping, Sweden, makes highly differentiated outdoor monitors to provide cities with extensive, hyper-local air quality measurements to enable their Smart City plans. “Air pollution is an enormous…
Scottsdale, Arizona – Feb 22, 2022. Piera Systems (“Piera”) is pleased to announce the signing of a reseller agreement with Build Equinox, a leader in fresh air ventilation technology headquartered in Urbana, IL, to market, sell, and distribute the highly accurate Canāree™ family of Air Quality Monitors. Canāree air quality monitors are built using the patented Intelligent Particle Sensor (“IPS”)…
Canāree Air Quality Monitors deployed to measure air quality and identify sources Nigeria has the largest economy in Africa and the 27’th largest economy in the world in terms of nominal GDP.[1] Accompanying this growth is air pollution. In 2019, the entire Nigerian population lived with PM2.5 concentrations above the WHO air quality guideline of 5 ug/m3 [2]. With…
Scottsdale, AZ – Jan 13 2022. Piera Systems (“Piera”) is proud to announce the release of calibration certificate for its Intelligent Particle Sensors (“IPS”), tested and calibrated in accordance with ISO 21501-4 standard, a requirement for particle counters used in many applications where accuracy and precision between instruments are high. Piera’s affordable Canāree Air Quality Monitors are built using this…
Introduction Optical particle sensors are being widely deployed in outdoor and indoor applications to monitor air quality and control air cleaning technologies. Low-cost sensors are not designed to replace expensive reference instruments but are being widely adopted in a range of applications with 57M units shipped last year. There are many studies discussing the limitations of these devices especially for…
For decades, air quality measurements have been synonymous with measuring PM2.5 and PM10, combined weight of particles of size 2.5 and 10 microns, driven by the US EPA and other governmental bodies around the world. While PM2.5 and PM10 do an adequate job of representing outdoor air quality, it paints a woefully incomplete picture when measuring indoor air quality. Indoors…
As the world emerges from a pandemic, there are still many lingering worries about how to live, work, and play safely in a post-pandemic world. What we took for granted before the pandemic—a routine commute to work in the morning and taking kids to the ice rink in the evening — have become exercises in interpreting byzantine scientific theories or,…
Every day we learn more about the impact poor air quality has on our health, productivity, and its economic impact. Covid and climate change are tipping points for action. Wildfires are impacting millions across the US. What can I do to mitigate these threats to my family, business, the planet? You don’t need to be an atmospheric scientist nor spend…
Yesterday (7/20) I noticed that my Canāree A1 located in my office in Bristol, RI started reading AQI values ~120 (orange, unhealthy) after weeks of green values. I wondered why? Went out for a cruise on Narragansett Bay from 7-9 pm and the air smelled like burnt wood, the sky was hazy with a yellow/orange moon. I overhear someone say…
Toronto, Ontario – July 28, 2021. Piera Systems (“Piera”) is excited to announce a reseller agreement with Hitachi Systems Network Technologies (“Hitachi”), a leading IT service provider headquartered in Singapore, to market, sell, and distribute the ground-breaking CanāreeTM family of air quality monitors in Singapore. Canāree air quality monitors are built using the patented Intelligent Particle Sensor (“IPS”) technology from…
This story appeared in my Apple News Feed today. Read on to hear about my personal experience and how my Canāree Air Quality Monitor alerted me before the EPA did… Wildfire Smoke in Bristol RI !!
This article from Fierce Electronics discusses Piera Systems family of Intelligent Particulate Matter Sensors and how they can be used to measure Air Quality for many applications . Initially called the Piera-1 we have created a family of devices which are Software-Defined. They have superior accuracy, resolution to existing low cost sensors, calculate PM size, count and mass concentration…
This article from Harvard Magazine discusses the surprising extent to which the presence of fine air particles affects human health. It highlights a study that carried out new techniques and collected data on just how much on an economic impact fine air particles can have because of their severe health impacts. “The research demonstrates that every microgram-per-cubic-meter increase in PM2.5…
This article from WAPO highlights the dramatic reduction in air pollution due to Covid-19 BUT it also points out the challenges of reducing emissions from the vast infrastructure already in place. “Although the decline in emissions during the pandemic may have been unprecedented, it was relatively small when it comes to combating global warming. The peak 17 percent decline in global…
In a previous post we referenced articles that stated the hypothesis that air pollution and the severity of COVID-19 were linked. It was said to be due to bad air taking a toll on the lungs and rendering people more vulnerable to the effects of the virus. A recent study conducted in Italy suggests another way by which high particulate…
We started Piera Systems to address the public health threat due to Air Pollution. We developed our Piera-1 Intelligent Particle Sensor so that researchers, gov’t agencies, consumers and businesses would have accurate, real-time, complete data at a low cost in order to identify, classify what’s in your air and take action. None of us anticipated the emergence of COVID-19 and…
The Coronavirus has affected the entire world in a manner that has seldom been seen before. As more research is done to better understand this pandemic, we come across new information that helps us be more well equipped to fight it. Our white paper linked below contains important updates about COVID-19 that may enable us to do exactly this: Accurately…
As if the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic wasn’t bad enough as is, poor air quality could be making the virus even more deadly. The virus manifests differently amongst individuals, with many being asymptomatic while proving fatal to many others. The elderly and immunocompromised are more at risk as the data from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention suggests. Similarly,…
