What air do we breathe?

Over the years, the entire world has become conscious about the importance of air quality, to the point that many new companies have been created, older have expanded in providing salutary measurement of air conditions throughout the world. 

More recently, these companies have been providing convenient smartphone apps that can tell us instantly how good or bad the air quality is where we live, in places we’d like to go or anywhere our friends or relatives live. 

Where we live in the US there’s AirNow, a service from the Environmental Protection Agency, but if lone lives anywhere in the world there’s also a convenient app from IQAir, a Swiss air quality technology company, specializing in protection against airborne pollutants, developing air quality monitoring and air cleaning products. 

That company was founded in 1963 by brothers Manfred and Klaus Hammes, who introduced an air filter system for residential coal furnaces and oven in Germany to help reduce black dust build-up on the walls behind ovens. 

Manfred Hammes, a lifelong asthma sufferer, noticed that the filter reduced his flare-ups during the winter months. 

Klaus Hammes continued through the 1960s and ’70s, to adapt the air filter for other heating systems such as radiators, baseboard heating and forced-air heating and cooling systems. In 1982, Klaus Hammes relocated the company headquarters to Switzerland. 

If clean air is important to you, make sure to download the app available for iPhone or Android.