Indoor radon is the second frequent source for lung cancer, causing each year over 290,000 deaths worldwide and a damage of 9 billion EUR to the European society. As a naturally occurring, widely-spread radioactive gas radon cannot be seen, smelled or tasted as it permeates from the subsurface into buildings, where it accumulates inside. To protect people the EU enacted a radon protection law. Throughout Europe 34 million buildings, mostly homes, are affected by increased radon levels and have a - soon in parts legally regulated - need for mitigation and monitoring. A compact, technically outstanding and affordable device is what this emerging market needs. However, every currently available radon sensor shows a certain lack of features. None of them is able to meet all requirements yet: Either not sensitive nor reliable nor robust enough or too large and too expensive. The AlphaSensor synergises all necessary aspects in one device: It is at least 70% smaller than other solutions and at the same time very fast, sensitive and precise. Furthermore, environmental influences like vibration, shock, humidity and temperature won’t affect it. Designed towards mass production, AlphaSensor can be produced in large quantities at low costs. Perfectly constructed to be integrated into indoor air quality monitors, air purifiers and air conditioners as well as into building control and ventilation systems, it complies with the demands of these high-volume markets (several billion EUR), which grow fast with a CAGR between 11% and 19%. Equipped with common interface standards, AlphaSensor can easily be integrated in all these products.
The overall objective of this project is to develop our unique AlphaSensor towards full market readiness. This includes further optimisation of the sensor’s hardware components and electronics towards even better sensitivity and optimised production costs as well as the integration of further connectivity features and the implementation of a software platform for managing and monitoring multiple radon sensors even on distributed properties.
Indoor radon is the second frequent source for lung cancer, causing each year over 290,000 deaths worldwide and a damage of 9 billion EUR to the European society. As a naturally occurring, widely-spread radioactive gas radon cannot be seen, smelled or tasted as it permeates from the subsurface into buildings, where it accumulates inside. To protect people the EU enacted a radon protection law. Throughout Europe 34 million buildings, mostly homes, are affected by increased radon levels and have a - soon in parts legally regulated - need for mitigation and monitoring. A compact, technically outstanding and affordable device is what this emerging market needs. However, every currently available radon sensor shows a certain lack of features. None of them is able to meet all requirements yet: Either not sensitive nor reliable nor robust enough or too large and too expensive. The AlphaSensor synergises all necessary aspects in one device: It is at least 70% smaller than other solutions and at the same time very fast, sensitive and precise. Furthermore, environmental influences like vibration, shock, humidity and temperature won’t affect it. Designed towards mass production, AlphaSensor can be produced in large quantities at low costs. Perfectly constructed to be integrated into indoor air quality monitors, air purifiers and air conditioners as well as into building control and ventilation systems, it complies with the demands of these high-volume markets (several billion EUR), which grow fast with a CAGR between 11% and 19%. Equipped with common interface standards, AlphaSensor can easily be integrated in all these products.
The overall objective of this project is to develop our unique AlphaSensor towards full market readiness. This includes further optimisation of the sensor’s hardware components and electronics towards even better sensitivity and optimised production costs as well as the integration of further connectivity features and the implementation of a software platform for managing and monitoring multiple radon sensors even on distributed properties.
