In the news · Air quality & public health
Spain's La Vanguardia has featured Bettair in its «Salud & Vida» (Health & Life) special edition on public health. The message resonates on both sides of the Atlantic: you can't protect people from air you don't measure.
LA VANGUARDIAHealth & Life special · October 19, 2026 · p. 18
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La Vanguardia, one of Spain's leading daily newspapers, published its «Salud & Vida» special edition on Monday, October 19, under the theme «Public health under review». On page 18, the supplement reports that Bettair received nine awards at the AIRLAB Microsensors Challenge 2025, highlighting the air quality technology behind the networks that dnota Air Quality Corp. brings to North America.
Seeing air quality covered in a health section is no surprise. The World Health Organization ranks air pollution among the leading environmental risks to human health. For U.S. cities, health departments and institutions, the first step to reducing that risk is reliable, street-level data.
What the article reports
«The devices developed in Barcelona achieve the best overall results in real-world tests».
According to La Vanguardia, Bettair won nine awards at the fifth AIRLAB Microsensors Challenge after demonstrating the highest overall accuracy and consistency in air quality measurement across three continents.
The newspaper notes that the technology is already deployed in more than 100 cities in over 30 countries and outperformed 47 other models in independent testing.
Why it matters for U.S. communities
Regulatory monitors remain the backbone of air quality management in the United States. Dense sensor networks complement them, filling the gaps between stations and showing how exposure changes from block to block.
Public health agencies
Neighborhood-level data to identify hotspots, track trends and communicate risk to residents with confidence.
Schools & hospitals
Continuous monitoring around sensitive sites where children, patients and older adults spend their time.
Transit, ports & industry
Measurement near highways, rail, freight corridors and industrial fencelines, where communities are most exposed.
Already on U.S. streets
Bettair nodes have been deployed in Queens and the Bronx as part of the NYC Environmental Tech Lab, measuring air quality at street level in some of the city's most traffic-exposed neighborhoods.
Independent, third-party results such as AIRLAB give U.S. agencies objective performance evidence to support procurement decisions.
Proven in the toughest conditions
AIRLAB tested the sensors in four very different environments. Bettair delivered the best overall result in all of them:
ParisEurope · urban
AccraAfrica · Ghana
BangaloreAsia · India
SubwayUnderground rail networks
The underground rail results are directly relevant to U.S. transit agencies that need to understand air quality on platforms and in stations.
From data to healthier communities
Measure
Bettair nodes continuously record gases, particulate matter and noise.
Understand
Validated, comparable data reveal where and when air quality gets worse.
Act
Targeted traffic, zoning or protective measures where exposure is highest.
Protect
Lower exposure for residents, students, patients and workers.
Research on air and health: HARMONIE
La Vanguardia also highlights Bettair's role in HARMONIE, a European project coordinated by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) that develops digital twins and artificial intelligence to assess the environmental impact on health.
Air quality is public health
The Spanish supplement frames prevention as a core strategy for health systems. Air quality fits squarely into that approach: accurate, local data help communities anticipate problems, protect the most vulnerable and verify that policies work.
For dnota Air Quality Corp., being featured in a health publication confirms what we see every day with U.S. partners: air quality is no longer just an environmental metric.
About dnota Air Quality Corp.
dnota Air Quality Corp. brings Bettair technology and dnota's air quality expertise to North America, from reference-grade instrumentation to high-resolution distributed networks for cities, industry, transportation and infrastructure. Based in Coral Gables, Florida.
Related news: More dnota Air Quality Corp. news
Source: La Vanguardia (Barcelona, Spain), «Salud & Vida» special supplement, Monday, October 19, 2026, p. 18 (in Spanish).
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