Dust! 🌬️

🇺🇲🔬 Two US universities are currently developing better, low-cost, and portable dust measurement technology for pig barns aimed at determining the impact of air quality on the health of pigs and farm workers. After all, we can't have the industry eat dust by falling behind the problems, can we? Once the new monitoring systems are set, the data collected will be used to develop predictive models of particulate matter emissions and evaluate the effectiveness of various mitigation methods.

Traditionally, there have been limited options for measuring particulates in pig barns, but the team is designing a new sensor technology – a monitoring station that is readily responsive, sensitive, low-cost, and easy to operate. Here are the details about it.