What are the AirNow-I system features?

AirNow-International allows you to manage, access, and track your real-time air quality data with a proven, effective system that can be customized to meet your organization’s needs. The Data Management System (DMS) allows you to collect and organize your air quality and other environmental data. The Information Management System (IMS) provides a way to distribute and create the products you would like to share. Multi-lingual user interfaces are available for both DMS and IMS.

Data Mangement System

Automated features:
-Data collection and processing
-Quality control of real-time data
-Data aggregation (e.g.: 1-hour average from 1-minute data) and calculation
-Data summary exports
-System monitoring
-Email notifications if quality control checks fail
-Customizable features:
-Quality control checks by site, pollutant, and duration (hourly and minute-by-minute)
-Data plots for air quality and meteorological data analysis and comparison
-Data summaries and reports
-Data access or permission levels for individual users
Additional features:
-Maintains chain of custody/history of data edits by users and reasons
-Maintains logs of system changes

Information Management System

-Monitors and tracks the creation and distribution of products
-Provides flexibility to add new customized programs and data products
-Controls data distribution and sharing
-Manages and monitors web services
-Converts data to user-friendly products (e.g., KML files for Google Earth display)
-Schedules product creation
-Distributes products