The last couple of centuries have shown unprecedented records of technological advancements. Post-industrial revolution, development has soared high into the sky. Population, unemployment, and poverty have rapidly increased. Industries prove to be a lifeline for them, generating employment opportunities. According to the World Bank database industries account for 23.083% of the total employment around the world. However, global issues like climate change and global warming are worsening due to industrial emissions. The increase in industries has caused the ambient air to degenerate drastically. Industries emit pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, dust/particulate matter, etc. Industries are major sources of dust pollution. Industrial dust monitor helps in the real-time monitoring and reduction of dust concentration. According to India’s National Ambient Air Monitoring Programme (NAMP) particulate matter monitoring PM10 and PM2.5 are the major challenges in air pollution. The report explained that particulate matter was majorly responsible in breaching National Ambient Air Quality Standards. These particulate matters ranging from the size of 1 micrometre to 100 micrometres collectively can be classified as dust. The dust particles are also alternatively coined as Suspended Particulate Matter(SPM) and Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter (RSPM). The National Clean Air Programme NCAP identifies industries as one of the major sources of dust pollution. It further aims to increase the number of dust monitors across the country. An increase in the number of Industrial dust monitor helps in better compliance and regulation. It further aids in a better understanding of source contribution, identifying hotspots, and carry out health exposure studies.

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2. Industries prove to be a lifeline for global
concerns like population explosion,
unemployment, and poverty.
According to the World Bank database
industries account for 23.083% of the total
employment around the world.
Global issues like climate change and
global warming are worsening due to
industrial emissions
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3. Construction
Industry
CONTRIBUTORS
Mining Stone Crushing
Thermal Power Plant Cement Industries Chemical Industries
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4. INDUSTRIAL DUST
Source Average for six monitoring locations
% contribution PM10 % Contribution PM2.5
Winter Summer Winter Summer
Vehicles 19.7 6.4 25.1 8.5
Secondary
Particulates
24.6 10.15 29.9 14.9
Biomass Burning 16.7 6.8 25.8 12.2
Industries 0.65 1.05 0.8 1.2
Coal and Fly ash 12.1 37.2 4.8 25.95
Construction
material
3.1 4.1 1.5 3.0
Soil and road dust 14.4 26.5 4.3 27.1
Solid waste
burning
8.75 7.75 7.75 7.2
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5. Dust particles can easily penetrate into the
respiratory system causing fatal diseases.
- Stroke
- Heart Disease
- Lung Cancer
- Respiratory Infections
- Asthma
- Pneumonia.
HEALTH EFFECTS
Finer dust is responsible for
the death of nearly 7
million each year.
“
”- World Health Organization
(WHO)
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6. REGULATION AND COMPLIANCE
Industrial dust monitors help in quantifying the
dust concentration in the industries and the
surrounding receptors.
Monitoring results help in:
- Environmental Impact Assessment. (EIA)
- Environmental Management Plan. (EMP)
- Environmental Clearance. (EC)
- Semi-annual compliance reports.
- Alerts and Awareness.
The data also acts as base data to compare the air
particulate concentration at different stages of
processes.
Dispersion analysis can be carried out for better
understanding of dust transport.
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7. DUSTROIDTM
The monitoring devices like the Oizom’s low-
cost sensor DustroidTM (with variants - Light,
Smart, and Pro) are stationed at the
construction sites.
DustroidTM measures the concentration of
various particulate matter PM1, PM2.5, PM10, and
PM100 in the ambient air which can be further
integrated with a weather station.
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8. AUTOMATION
Dust Suppression
Automation through Real
Time Dust Monitoring
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9. Various national and international agreements
also mandate to increase the number of PM
monitors.
The SDG3 of healthy lives and wellbeing and SDG11
of sustainable cities mandates to increase the
number of PM monitors around the world.
Similarly in India, the National Air Quality
Monitoring Programme (NAMP) identified the
limitation of inadequate PM monitoring systems
and mandates to expand PM monitoring network.
Industrial Dust Monitoring