The commercial-industrial-institutional system uses a vacuum pump and a series of room sensors, duct probes, and duct cables to transmit information from specific rooms or areas to an information management gateway. The air samples are analyzed for contaminants and overall content; in this way, problem areas can be pinpointed much more quickly, a company representative explained.
The information can be tied into system controls, he added, offering a very quick way to initiate a system shutdown or airflow reconfiguration in case of a hazardous release in one part of the building. This type of control is in development, he said, pending the development of chemical and biological sensors.