LAS VEGAS & PLÉNEUF-VAL-ANDRÉ, France, Dec. 31, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SAMEA Innovation, SAS is pleased to announce the cellular-based SENSORIIS and SAMEA Innovation entry into the U.S. markets. The SENSORIIS, now shipping in Europe, incorporates an extensive array of 16 sensor measurements. The sensor measurements include Particle PM 0.5, 1.0, 2.5, 7.5, 10.0, VOC, True CO2, temperature, humidity, presence via a doppler radar, sound, vibration, air pressure, smoke and lighting conditions including brightness and color temperature. SENSORIIIS will ship in Q2 of 2022 at $499.  

To be introduced at this year’s CES, the SENSORIIS is engineered as a cellular-based autonomous system with no Wi-Fi setup needed. The system can be placed anywhere to measure air quality, with seamless connectivity to the cloud every five minutes, providing near real-time air quality information via a mobile app or web dashboard. There is no router to install, which avoids an unsecure Wi-Fi point by using a secure cellular connection. 

“A company can place the SENSORIIS anywhere in a space, as its battery can last up to two years, and place as many as needed to receive accurate indoor air quality measurements via mobile app or customized dashboards,” said Sebastien Amiot, CEO of SAMEA Innovation.

SAMEA Innovation is utilizing Sequans’ cellular-based sensor technology for the SENSORIIS. “The Sequans communication module in the SENSORIIS is certified for use by cellular carriers in over 200 countries, and it will bring a competitive advantage to SAMEA,” said Amiot.

“Safe and healthy indoor air quality has become an increasingly important issue in many companies that plan to return to work in person following the many challenges brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Installation of precise air quality sensors that can efficiently measure and inform the air quality condition on a real-time basis can help reduce the anxiety and concerns that employees may have about commercial spaces,” added Amiot. 

SAMEA Innovation is exhibiting at CES 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the Eureka Park Booth #61013 in the Technology West-Hall G in the France Innovation Section. To learn more, visit www.samea-innovation.com.

ABOUT SAMEA Innovation, SAS

Established in August 2016, SAMEA Innovation designs and provides wireless systems and connected IoT devices, based on a strong expertise in radiocommunication and electronic design. Our designs support B2B and B2C radio integration, with a focus on improving connectivity, geolocation, and multi-purpose wireless sensors.

For more information, visit www.samea-innovation.com.

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At the foot of the Tatras, the Alpine mountains of the Carpathians that separate Poland and Slovakia, lies Nowy Targ, in a depression where two rivers converge. A few kilometers to the northwest, other mountains, those of the Gorce National Park, embrace the municipality of 34,000 inhabitants. It sounds like clean air and nature, winter and mountain sports. If it weren’t for the toxic smoke that comes out of the homes, the one that produces the coal that heats them in an endless winter, that suffocates Nowy Targ and makes it the most polluted city in Poland.

On bad days, the pollution is so intense that you can see it, smell it and almost touch it. From the hill where the hospital and the municipal cemetery are located, the city seems to be swallowed up by a thick cloud with an ocher tone of smog -for smoke (smoke) and fog (fog), in English. Only behind Bulgaria, Poland is the most polluted country in the European Union, as collected by Eurostat. Of the 50 European cities with the worst air quality, 36 are Polish, according to the World Health Organization. Nowy Targ has become the worst of the worst.

According to him ranking annual Polish Smog Alert activist movement published on December 9, the city led the ranking in the three categories they analyzed with data from 2020. Among the hundreds of Polish measurement stations studied, theirs registered the highest average annual concentration of PM10 particulate matter (42 mg / m³ ), the highest number of days with unbreathable air (90) and the highest annual concentration of the carcinogen benzopyrene (18 ng / m³, 1,800% above the limit allowed in Poland).

Four days after the ranking made public, the mayor, Grzegorz Watycha, considers it “irritating” and unfair. As he explains, they are on the list because the problem worries them and they have set up a measuring station that other places lack. “We are a bit punished because we want to solve the problem and we are aware,” he insists. Along with the classification, Smog Polish Alert denounced that three days before the City Council had changed the location of the station to a site that, they consider, will collect lower levels of pollution and will make it difficult to assess the annual evolution.

Watycha explains that 60% of the city’s polluting emissions come from outdated domestic boilers that still run on coal today. [en Polonia suponen más del 50% de la polución], in many occasions of very low quality, and even garbage. In one of the coldest cities in Poland, the mayor emphasizes that his neighbors spend twice as much as the Polish average on heating, which can take eight months a year, which complicates the switch to other fuels that are more expensive, like gas. The remaining 40% of the polluted air is attributed to cars and the surrounding towns, “where nothing is done.” The orography of the place, added to the thermal inversion when it is colder in the valley than in the mountains, means that the contamination remains trapped at ground level.

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The mayor is concerned about the image that the city projects abroad with this ranking which takes Spanish journalists to sit in his office, who have traveled there as part of the Europa Ciudadana series financed by the European Parliament. Dr. Lidia Kolodziej is anxious about the health of her patients, “especially children, whose respiratory system develops up to seven years.” It does not have local data, but those of the Malopolska region, where Nowy Targ is located, and the Silesia mining region, also highly polluted, collect four times as many cases of early childhood asthma. “I observe very clearly that in the periods of more pollution these children have more respiratory problems, bronchitis and infections,” he explains. “My drama is that instead of being able to prescribe a healthy diet and exercise outdoors, I have to ask them to stay home,” he says in his bright living room, where he has an air purifier.

In adults, he continues, a higher incidence of lung, circulation and heart diseases is observed. There is also a higher prevalence of lung cancer among nonsmokers because of the benzopyrene that is breathed in Nowy Targ, which is a substance also found in cigarettes, he notes. Older people, who are also at risk of developing early dementia, do not pay much attention to it. “They say it is the smell of winter and that it has always been done that way (burning garbage, including plastic).”

Denial, outrage and resignation can be seen on the streets of Nowy Targ. Maria Sieka, 73, who has a kiosk in the main square where she sells souvenirs and bovine garments, he does not believe that the pollution comes from the heaters, but from the cars, but in reality it does not matter much to him: “I am 73 years old and I am not worried; I have asthma and I live very well ”. Julia Janczy, an 18-year-old student, finds the situation in her city “horrible”: “We are in the mountains and in theory we should have fresh air”.

Marcin Kowalczyk, a 41-year-old attorney, is aware that living in Nowy Targ is “like smoking a pack of cigarettes a day.” “I try not to worry, because I have to live here.” “You can tell how some days you feel worse, with less energy, with headaches, and you don’t want to leave home,” says Danuta Duda, 27, a manager of rural accommodation. His guests ask him “what does he smell like, what are the neighbors burning”.

In Poland, about 45,000 premature deaths a year are attributed to pollution. “It is a pandemic in slow motion, it has a gigantic impact on health,” says Javi López, a socialist MEP, who considers the Polish case “a scandal”. As a member of the European Parliament’s Committee on Health and Environment, he advocates for the tightening of EU pollution limits in line with the WHO. Anna Zalewska, MEP for Law and Justice (PiS), the ultra-conservative party that governs Poland, nevertheless warns that “any change must take into account the socio-economic possibilities and the cost” for the Member States.

For the Polish government, says Zalewska, pollution is a priority issue. Through the national Clean Air program, it promotes the replacement of more than three million old boilers for more efficient ones with a 10-year budget of 103,000 million zlotys (about 22,000 million euros) and the improvement of insulation in homes. The program receives between 4,500 and 5,000 requests a week and since its launch in 2019 until December 10, it has collected 368,000 requests, according to the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management. Nowy Targ estimates that they have to change up to 1,500 boilers and supplements the national subsidies with municipal aid of 5,000 zlotys. So far they have financed some 150 performances.

Magdalena Cygan, Smog Alert activist in Nowy Targ, who worked closely with him until the publication of the ranking and the complaint that has upset the City Council, believes that both residents and local authorities can and should do more. “People prefer to buy a better car, a television, than to think that another source of heat will be more beneficial,” he complains. Although he has heard from citizens who are considering moving, his plans are to continue working until the cloud that stifles Nowy Targ is eliminated. In the future, you know not immediate, but hope not too far away, you trust that the neighbors can breathe clean air and really enjoy nature.

The Krakow example

In 2012 Polish Smog Alert was born as a small group of activists who, concerned about the air that was breathed in Krakow, began to make noise through social networks. They were joined by scientists, doctors, activists and companies and their actions succeeded in putting pressure on the City Council, as its founder, Anna Dworakowska, recounts.
In 2019, the city banned burning coal and wood in boilers or stoves (Nowy Targ, 90 kilometers away, awaits regional legislation, which sets the date in 2030). The ban was complemented by a program that in the first two years financed up to 100% of the costs of replacing boilers, and that for the most vulnerable neighbors also covers the extra cost of changing the heating source, normally gas. . “For three or four years, day after day, building by building, officials and external workers were informing the inhabitants that they had to change the boilers and offering them solutions,” explains the Plenipotentiary of the Mayor of the city of Krakow for quality more than 20,000 have been replaced and about 500 remain.
According to Piotr Kleczkowski, a professor at the AGH University of Science and Technology, who has analyzed the result of the ban on burning fossil fuels, the city has reduced its pollution levels between 43 and 45% in all the substances analyzed. “It has been a great success and it would be even more so if it weren’t for the rest of the municipalities in the metropolitan area,” he says.

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The year 2021 resulted in some major changes for the Vigo County School Corp., including the closing and repurposing of two elementary schools and a narrowing of high school facility construction/renovation options.

As the year ended, controversy arose over the proposed closing of a third elementary school, Meadows, with a “listening session” scheduled for Jan. 5. A board decision is expected at the Jan. 10 school board meeting.

The district continued to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, which lead to controversy over universal masking as the 2021-22 school year began.

Those opposed to required masking spoke up at school board meetings and they conducted a protest in front of the VCSC administration building in August. Many believed masking should be a parent’s decision, and some threatened to take their children out of VCSC schools if the policy didn’t change.

As students prepare to return to school on Jan. 3 after the end-of-year holiday break, district and health officials are closely monitoring another COVID surge as the omicron variant rises nationwide.

The past year “has provided points of pride and memory-making moments, as well as challenging conversations and opportunities for growth,” said Katelynn Liebermann, VCSC interim spokeswoman. “We look to 2022 as our next best year. Our focus continues to be to provide our youngest learners to our graduating seniors with a high quality educational experience.”

Tribune-Star file/Joseph C. Garza Keep the three: Vigo County School Corporation Superintendent Rob Haworth shares the feedback he received from the public on the future of the three county high schools: keep all three. Haworth shared the corporation’s proposed amended strategic plan during a news conference on Tuesday, Oct. 19 at the VCSC administration building in West Terre Haute.

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High schools

On Dec. 27, the district narrowed options for a high school project to two proposals calling for a combination of new construction of academic facilities and renovation of non-academic spaces; polling shows voters are unlikely to approve a referendum calling for three new high schools, said Rob Haworth, VCSC superintendent.

Haworth will present his final recommendation during a second hearing in mid-January, at which time the board will be asked to make a decision on whether to go forward with a project and referendum to be placed on the May ballot.

The school board will be making a decision with long-term consequences, Haworth has said. He described it as a “generational decision,” one that benefits not only students and educators, but also the community’s ability to attract and retain people and new business.

Option 1 would use a $160 million referendum for new academic spaces and $100 million through existing debt service and short term bonds for renovation projects of non-academic spaces over time.

But by using existing debt service, the high school renovations would take more time and might be in competition with other VCSC schools that need projects, Haworth said. “That is a longer march to get your high schools where you want them.”

Option 2, which involves a $260 million referendum, calls for new academic spaces at all three high schools as well as renovated non-academic spaces. All three schools would be done at the same time.

Option 2 represents one cohesive project, Haworth said. It also “leaves us room to use (existing) debt service for other school projects as needed.”

School closings, repurposing

The district closed two elementary schools, Deming and West Vigo, and repurposed them. Deming is now an early learning center, while West Vigo is the new home of the administration building, formerly located at 686 Wabash Ave.

The 2020 strategic plan called for the closing of a third elementary school, and an elementary consolidation committee has recommended closing/repurposing Meadows Elementary. The third school closure has brought more vocal opposition.

A protest took place Dec. 11 in downtown Terre Haute and a large group of parents, educators, students and more attended the Dec. 13 Vigo County School Board meeting, most in opposition to the closing. A petition also is circulating. Families and educators went door-to-door Dec. 22 to pass out flyers and place signs in several locations.

Meadows parents cite a lack of transparency in the process, and they’ve also asked for more information regarding net savings from last year’s school closures and projected savings from the closure of Meadows.

The elementary closings are part of VCSC efforts to reduce operating costs and bring the number of schools in line with enrollment, which has been declining over many years.

In recommending Meadows, the consolidation committee took into account enrollment; age and condition of the building; and the ability to move students to neighboring schools “in a fashion that worked best for families,” officials have said.

Meadows students would be redistricted to Davis Park, DeVaney, Franklin and Lost Creek elementary schools, with most going to Davis Park.

Improved teacher pay

The district also improved teacher pay, raising the minimum to $39,000 this year and $40,000 next year for beginning teachers. The agreement with the Vigo County Teachers Association brings back a salary schedule, or steps, with each step carrying a $1,000 pay increase.

The agreement provides most returning teachers a $4,000 boost in pay over two years, most of it on the salary base, but some of it a stipend in 2021-22 as teachers are placed on the new salary schedule.

Statewide, K-12 schools received a significant boost in state funding from the Legislature during the 2021 budget-writing session, with the expectation that teacher minimum pay would be raised to $40,000 a year for beginning teachers.

Tribune-Star file/Joseph C. GarzaHow the buckets work: Donna Wilson, chief financial officer of the Vigo County School Corp., explains school funding during the school corporation’s meeting at Lost Creek Elementary on Nov. 4.

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ESSER funding

The Vigo County School Corp. has been awarded $47 million in federal COVID relief funds, with funds to-date spent on such areas as Chromebooks, COVID stipends for staff, virtual school costs and building improvements to address air quality.

Funds also have been used to address learning loss, including after-school remediation and tutoring as well as summer school. ESSER III requires that at least 20% be dedicated to learning loss.

Broken down, the district has been allocated $3.4 million through the CARES Act, which passed in 2020. This year, it learned it would receive $13.6 million from ESSER II and $30.5 million from ESSER III.

Much of the original CARES spending, when the pandemic first began, was used for Chromebooks and to address other immediate needs.

Broad overall uses for ESSER II and III include accelerated learning, supporting educators, sustainable innovation, updating technology and other infrastructure.

Other ESSER uses include providing mental health supports; projects to improve indoor air quality of schools; and facility improvements to reduce transmission and exposure to environmental health hazards.

ESSER funding also will be used for HVAC improvements. “If we are successful in the [proposed facility] referendum, those funds could be used at more schools across the district. If we are not, many of the funds would be devoted specifically to our high schools to address HVAC needs,” Bill Riley, former VCSC spokesman, stated in October.

Tribune-Star file/Joseph C. Garza Old pipes, big problems: Vigo County School Corporation Superintendent Rob Haworth talks about the time a fire suppression supply line had failed and pushed water into a hallway of the band area at Terre Haute South during a tour of the facility on Tuesday, Nov. 16. A 15-foot hole had to be dug into the ground to reach the pipe and repair it.

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Updated strategic plan

As part of its updated strategic plan proposal, the Vigo County School Corp. wants students to graduate from high school with at least 30 hours of one of the following: dual college credit, industry credentials or career certifications that “add greater value” to a diploma, Haworth has said.

The goal is to have that in place for the Class of 2027, or this year’s seventh graders. The Vigo County School Board has not yet acted on the updated strategic plan.

The 30 hours are important, according to Haworth, because “labor economists say that two-thirds of U.S. citizens need industry-recognized certifications, industry and business credentials or college degrees to thrive.”

Other components of the updated plan include:

•A proposed new FITE [fabrication, innovation, technology and engineering] Center, a career-focused center serving students in collaboration with local labor, industry and higher education.

• An international residency program that would bring high school students from other countries to Vigo County schools.

• A statewide online school that would help the district increase enrollment and revenue. The district would use its own curriculum and teachers to deliver instruction online.

Details of the full strategic plan, titled “Uncommon,” can be found at tinyurl.com/vcscuncommon.

Sue Loughlin can be reached at 812-231-4235 or at [email protected] Follow Sue on Twitter @TribStarSue.

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ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The CDTA has announced that all buses are now equipped with a commercial-grade air purification system that uses Photohydroionization (PHI-Cell®) technology to clean the air. This technology said officials along with normal, daily deep clean disinfectant procedures will offer the highest quality of disinfectant for Operators and passengers. 

44% of eligible New Yorkers have gotten COVID booster/additional dose

According to United Safety and Survivability Corporation which produces this device eliminates over 99% of germs, microbes, viruses, bacteria, and volatile organic compounds in the air and on surfaces, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Officials say this type of technology has been used in the medical community for decades.

In addition, CTDA said customers can also access contactless payment options with the navigator mobile application that offers a variety of fare products, real-time schedule information, and trip planning. Real-time occupancy data is now available on all fixed-route buses.

Customers can check bus arrival times and view the vehicle capacity prior to boarding, with color-coded indicators: not crowded (blue), some crowding (yellow), or crowded (red). Customers can also view this information on CDTA’s website.  

DEC: Greenhouse gases down, more work needed to meet state goals

All customers are required to wear a mask while riding with CDTA as part of the federal mask mandate in order to keep customers, operators, and the public safe from the COVID-19 pandemic. CDTA has also installed protective barriers in the operator compartment during the summer of 2020 on all buses. The barriers are designed to protect operators and improve the safety and security of the entire system.

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Stop harming the environment—and your wallet—by using disposable HEPA filters. Instead, switch to washable, replaceable filters by using the Kronos Air 5G Model 5 home air purifier. Developed to tackle super polluted areas, it runs completely silently. It sends the air in your home through 5 stages of purification, ensuring the cleanest air possible. With patented TPA technology, this gadget has an air quality indicator and an aerodynamic design. Moreover, its eco-friendly design paired with its smart control operation make it an impressive device. Cleaning dust, smoke, dander, bacteria, pollen, viruses, odors, germs, and more from your air, it offers great filtration performance. Furthermore, it measures and displays the air quality in your room to adjust its fan speed based on how dirty your air is. Finally, it cleans and removes particles as small as 14.6 nanometers.

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