Office CO2 Monitoring
Some research shows that we perform worse at higher order thinking when there's elevated CO2 levels. This study shows an impact to strategic thinking, crisis response, and information usage. People can still "do stuff" but they make worse decisions:
- Every 400 ppm CO2 increase → 21% decline in cognitive scores
- Every 20 cfm ventilation increase → 18% improvement
- Every 500 μg/m³ VOC increase → 13% decline
So I bought an Aranet 4 to monitor the CO2 at our office.
The problem is that if you want reporting you have to open their app to save the data. This is a pain, and I'd often forget. The reporting also looks terrible.
So I build this dashboard that saves & reports the data for me.
What's neat is that it uses the Bluetooth from my local-and-always-running Mac Mini to retrieve the data from the Aranet. I never have to do anything myself.