Espirioedu
The topic of carbon dioxide, and its effect on mental performance, is a carrying and widely discussed issue in recent times. The problem of poor indoor air quality affects the youngest generations the most. Surveys conducted in Polish schools show how bad the current situation is.
Provide your child with a better environment for learning and development!
Learning and development, regardless of our age, require the right conditions to be provided, not only at the level of didactic programs and the way knowledge is transmitted to us, but also in terms of the quality of the internal environment in which the learning process is carried out. We spend up to 90% of our lives indoors, much of it precisely in educational institutions. Among other things, air quality, noise levels, and the color and intensity of lighting are very important in this aspect. The first parameter mentioned – air quality has a particularly significant impact on learning conditions and efficiency.
The components that determine air quality include:
- CO2 carbon dioxide,
- PM2.5 and PM10 particulate matter,
- volatile organic compounds VOC/VOC,
Each of the mentioned elements, especially when exceeding certain standards, is undesirable and even dangerous, while we would like to focus on carbon dioxide CO2
No oxygen, no productivity
In 2018, experts from the Institute of Occupational Medicine conducted a study in more than a dozen schools in Lodz, Poland, showing that CO2 levels inside classrooms do not even come close to levels considered healthy. Recall that the acceptable limit that does not affect cognitive abilities is a level of 1,000 ppm (parts per million). However, the average value according to IMP measurements was 2500 ppm, and often exceeded even 4000 ppm!
To fully understand the catastrophic impact this has on the quality of learning, it’s worth recalling that according to a 2016 study, a group of researchers found that even at concentrations of around 1,500 ppm, maintaining focus, using information and making strategic decisions is more than 50% more difficult. If 0.15% CO2 in the air causes such a drastic drop in performance, one can only imagine (or conduct another extensive study) how poor the quality of learning is at concentrations of 0.25% and higher. It is not only the children who suffer, but also the teachers, whose productivity drops just as much.
Espirioedu will help improve learning atmosphere and conditions
The Espirio® system monitors all the previously mentioned parameters that affect the quality of the indoor environment, or in our case, the conditions in which our children learn.
Installing an Espirio® sensor system in classrooms, especially those without adequate mechanical ventilation, will make it easy to monitor and respond, and thus ensure optimal conditions for development and learning. This necessary and sufficient response is to open even for a few minutes the windows, doors or possibly a short break in the class to ventilate the room.
Espirioedu not only better learning conditions, but also education.
In addition, the system, due to the range of monitored environmental parameters, will also be an excellent teaching aid in raising environmental awareness among students, as well as in addressing the subject of physical and natural phenomena and their impact on the quality, comfort and health of people.
EspirioEDU is an access utility-enhanced version of the base Espirio system. If you are a parent, employee or manage an educational institution and are interested in a solution contact us
