.The Business Management (SBA) named NIEHS give recipient 2B Technologies one of the 2020 champions of the famous Tibbetts Award for innovative technologies, in a Jan. 14 statement (see sidebar). The honors realize recipients of Small Business Technology Analysis (SBIR) and also Local Business Modern Technology Move (STTR) funds for extraordinary successes.The prize-winning ventures coming from 2B Technologies involve mobile, user-friendly air high quality tracking resources. The company did certainly not stop at unique products, nonetheless. They took it a measure further, motivating and also taking on a brand-new production of science, modern technology, design, as well as mathematics trainees with AQTreks-- a K-12 informative outreach system. Making use of the private sky monitor cultivated with SBIR give support, trainees may look into air pollution along courses they design.John Birks, Ph.D., is actually the founder and chief researcher of 2B Technologies. With NIEHS SBIR grants, his business cultivated a personal ozone display, dark carbon analyzer, private air display, and also the AQTreks course. Birks, left behind and Hayden Aubermann, technological sales rep, feature 2B Innovation's screens during the 2017 yearly appointment of the International Community of Direct Exposure Scientific Research. (Picture courtesy of Lingamanaidu Ravichandran)" John Birks and also 2B Technologies created great use of the SBIR grant mechanism by successfully developing and marketing a completely brand-new production of very mobile and also lower cost air contamination monitoring modern technologies," stated Lingamanaidu (Ravi) Ravichandran, Ph.D., a health expert administrator at NIEHS." This effort helped develop a brand-new use and market for these modern technologies, and also furthermore, they are actually making an actual distinction in the learning of our young people concerning air contamination as well as its own effect on individual wellness and also weather adjustment," he added.Ozone Ravichandran is a program policeman in the NIEHS Exposure, Reaction, as well as Technology Limb, teaming up with SBIR as well as STTR grant applicants and recipients. (Picture thanks to Steve McCaw/ NIEHS) The transportable ozone screen has a built-in GPS so it captures area together with constant ozone dimensions. Due to its little size and weight, high sensitiveness, prompt action time, and also portability, the monitor has made thorough studies of individual-level exposures to ozone feasible for the first time. "We think this will certainly boost environmental health research studies of the wellness results of ozone and support to legitimize pc styles of individual visibility," stated Ravichandran.According to the business, their ozone display is actually the world's littlest ultraviolet light-based ozone screen. Weighing in at merely 1 pound, the display's precision and also preciseness is comparable to regular ozone screens examining 35-45 pounds.Ozone, an unsafe part of smogginess, can exacerbate indicators of bronchial asthma, respiratory disease, and also emphysema. See the NIEHS page on air contamination for more on wellness effects research.The innovative monitor can easily keep track of ozone in household and also industrial websites at ground level, or even be mounted on kites, balloons, drones as well as various other automobiles to gauge improvements with elevation. It is actually additionally practical in remote control locations where energy is actually limited, Ravichandran explained.Student scientists2B Technologies originally made use of the transportable ozone display as portion of a K-12 education and learning program, to show its usefulness. With extra NIEHS SBIR gives, the firm carried on the work and developed an individual sky screen that determines a number of sky contaminants: Carbon monoxide.Carbon dioxide, a green house gas.Particulate matter (PM) in 3 size types: less than one micron, or PM1 lower than 2.5 microns, or PM2.5 and lower than 10 microns, or even PM10.Students at institutions that participate in the program, called AQTreks, make use of these displays to measure air contaminants as they go through their community, school building, or even various other areas. The monitor connects to an app on their cell phones, thus students can easily look at real-time measurements. They may even more post the records to the cloud, and also evaluate it in the classroom.According to Ravichandran, greater than 8,000 trainees have taken part in hikes at more than 150 schools to date (view video clip, right). The display broadcasts records via a mobile hookup to the internet where treks are stored and also could be assessed by AQTreks consumers around the world.Citation: Ellenburg JA, Williford CJ, Rodriguez SL, Andersen Computer, Turnipseed AA, Ennis CA, Basman KA, Hatz JM, Royal Prince JC, Meyers DH, Kopala DJ, Samon MJ, Jaspers KJ, Lanham BJ, Woodworker BJ, Birks JW. 2019. Global Ozone (GO3) Project and AQTreks: use of progressing modern technologies through pupils and also consumer researchers to track air contaminants. Atmos Environ X 4( 2019 ):100048.