Check PM 2.5 Now!! 5 Easy, Standard-Compliant, Accurate Apps for Checking Dust in the Air
Checking PM 2.5 dust easily, on your ownThere's no denying that today the problem of airborne dust and pollution, especially the tiny PM 2.5 particles, has become a national-scale problem on a par with the COVID-19 situation of recent times. As air-pollution problems have begun to intensify in many provinces, they directly affect the daily lives of people in every sector. The main factors causing PM 2.5 dust come from vehicle smoke, open burning, various industrial factories, construction, and low-pressure weather conditions.
Checking PM 2.5 dust easily
Although tiny PM 2.5 dust has no short-term effects, it does affect health over the long term. The more dust you have to face, the greater the chance of health problems in the future. So to protect yourself from illness caused by PM 2.5 dust, you should take basic care of yourself by wearing a standard-compliant face mask, installing a high-quality air purifier with strong airborne-pollutant filtration such as the HCU germ-control air purifier, and installing an app on your smartphone that can measure PM 2.5 levels to check air pollution before leaving home. Today, Sanyawit will recommend apps for checking PM 2.5 dust on both Android and iOS. Having one on your device certainly brings greater peace of mind, since you can check for yourself anywhere, anytime, 24 hours a day.
Want to know which apps they are? Let's take a look together...!!
5 Apps for Checking PM 2.5 Dust Levels — Keep One on Your Device for Peace of Mind
- AirVisual
Let's start with AirVisual, the super-popular app that can measure airborne dust levels in real time. The app is easy and convenient to use and provides all the essential information. Importantly, it checks air-pollution data in real time and can be used worldwide. Simply open the app and AirVisual will identify your current location and immediately begin assessing the PM 2.5 level. The dust readings include both US and AQI air-quality data showing what level it is at, along with temperature and weather conditions, wind direction and speed, and a forecast of weather and dust levels up to 7 days in advance.
- Air4Thai
Many people may be familiar with Air4Thai, the dust-measuring app from the Pollution Control Department. The app lets Air4Thai users check air-quality and dust reports for Thailand on an hourly basis, or if you want a summary, Air4Thai provides full details going back as far as 7 days, including air-quality graphs, dust severity, and air pollution on a map.
- Air Matters
Air Matters comes with the special advantage of being able to look up PM 2.5 dust levels quickly and instantly, and it can be used to check more than 180 countries worldwide. In addition to showing weather information from nearby monitoring stations, the Air Matters app has an alert system that notifies users when they enter areas with high levels of tiny dust particles. It also ranks where the air quality is best and where dust levels are highest, making it an app well suited to those who often travel abroad.
- BreezoMeter
For anyone looking for an app to check air-quality data, we recommend BreezoMeter, which gathers data from air-quality monitoring stations near your location all in a single app, so you can know whether the surrounding air is harmful to health — letting you grab a face mask in time to protect against dust, or find a dust-free location nearby. It also provides daily data on pollen from trees, grasses, and weeds, as well as alerts about changes in the weather in that area.
- Airveda
Airveda is another app that can check airborne dust levels from various locations worldwide. Just open the Airveda app and you'll get data on PM 2.5, PM 10, CO2 pollution, and the temperature and humidity in your area, both indoors and outdoors, as well as historical airborne dust and pollution readings. Airveda is a highly suitable app for travellers.
Besides the apps mentioned above, there are many other apps that can check airborne dust levels in real time. You can choose to download whichever app suits you best and use it at any time, because in any case the main purpose of these apps is to report the dust and pollution around you.
Now that you know the dust levels around you, for anyone looking for a way to reduce the pollution around them and turn the air clean and pure again, as if amid nature, Sanyawit recommends the HCU germ-control air purifier. This air purifier with a HEPA Filter has airborne-pollutant filtration efficiency as high as 99.99%, helping the air around you circulate well and filtering out dust, pathogens, bacteria, and tiny airborne particles. Keep one at home and your quality of life will improve in the blink of an eye...!!
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