What is radon?
Radon (Rn) is a radioactive chemical element and with a mass of 9.73 mg/cm³ is one of the heaviest gases. It is colorless, odorless and tasteless and occurs as different types of atoms (isotopes). All isotopes are radioactive. The most stable, naturally occurring isotope 222Rnhas a half-life of 3.8 days.
Radon enters buildings from the soil or building ground. How high the concentration is in the room depends on this:
- how much radon is in the soil & is released
- how permeable the subsoil is
- how the building is built
- how often the rooms are ventilated
What are the health risks associated with excessive Rn concentrations?
In poorly ventilated closed rooms, the radioactive gas can accumulate and lead to increased radon exposure, which is a health hazard. Smokers are particularly at risk, as the carcinogenic properties of radon and tobacco smoke reinforce each other. However, even among non-smokers, radon is cited as a major cause of lung cancer. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), radiation levels between 100 and 200 Bq/m³ already significantly increase the risk of lung cancer. Studies show that the risk increases by 10% for every 100 Bq/m³. The German Federal Office for Radiation Protection recommends taking precautionary measures to reduce radon concentrations above 100 Bq/m³.
This is how radon affects health:
- Cell damage to the lungs
- Hereditary mutations
- Lung cancer
Detect radon with the air-Q
If you want to protect yourself from the health effects of radon, you need to determine the concentration of the colorless and odorless gas in your rooms. With the air-Q Radon, you can measure radiation exposure reliably and quickly in a matter of seconds or in long-term measurements. In addition to the measured value radon, the new air-Q Radon 7 records other measured values via dedicated sensors: CO₂, air temperature, the relative and absolute humidity, the dew point, air pressure and volatile organic compounds (VOC). A separate, high-quality sensor is installed in the measuring device for each measured value, so that the air-Q can precisely distinguish between the different measured variables.
Therefore, you can use the air-Q Radon both as a measuring instrument for the radioactive gas and as an air analyzer for important measured values.
The air-Q Radon also convinces with an unbeatable price-performance ratio: It is one of our low-cost measuring devices and has a comparable equipment of sensors as our air-Q light. Via the air -Q smartphone app, you can display all measured values as a diagram as well as in the development over time and can adjust your ventilation behavior accordingly.
Currently, the air-Q Radon is in the final stages of development. From summer this year you will receive our new measuring device: As a pre-orderer you will get a discount and a surprise.
Your advantages with an air-Q Radon at a glance:
- German designed & manufactured radon sensor
- Very high accuracy
- many other sensors already included in the device
- short measuring intervals of 10 seconds
- Simultaneous display of two measured values by LED bars
- Cloud storage
- USB port
- Offline use
- Smart app with significantly more functions than comparable devices
- Integrated health advisor and AI algorithms that can analyze correlations
- Alarm function & push notifications
- Smart Home connectivity (Apple HomeKit via Homebridge, IFTTT, Home Assistant, FHEM, Homey, openHAB, ioBroker, Node-RED)
You will be able to borrow the air-Q Radon for a short-term air analysis in your rooms and determine radon levels. Achieve a much healthier indoor environment by detecting potential pollutant sources in real time. Our measuring devices alert you to potential sources of danger and the reaching of limit values via LED traffic light system on the device as well as push messages. Start your air analysis in summer 2023 and find out whether radon and other air pollutants are present in your indoor air.
