The global air quality monitoring system market (AQMS) is expected to grow at an annual rate of 4.6 percent, reaching a collective value of $4.9 billion by 2022, new research shows.

That’s up from $3.92 billion in 2017, according to “Air Quality Monitoring System Market Product (Indoor, Fixed, Outdoor, Wearable), Sampling (Continuous, Passive, Stack), Pollutant (Gas, VOC, Particulate Matter, Biological),End user(Government, Petrochemical, Commercial) – Global Forecast to 2022,” published by MarketsandMarkets. Driving the growth are supportive government regulations for effective air pollution monitoring and control, ongoing initiatives toward development of environment-friendly industries, increasing public-private funding for effective air pollution monitoring, rising levels of air pollution and increasing public awareness related to the environmental and health care implications of air pollution.

The air quality monitoring system market is segmented into indoor monitors (comprising fixed and portable monitors), outdoor monitors (comprising fixed, portable, dust, particulate monitors and AQM stations) and wearable monitors. The indoor monitors segment dominated the AQMS market in 2017. The large share of this segment is attributed to the increasing adoption of smart home and green-building technologies and growing consumer preference for pollution-free indoor environments.

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