Environmental and Air Quality Monitoring

One reference station gives a city its average. It does not tell a ward which street is the problem.

That is the gap a sensor network fills, and it is also where these programmes go wrong. A dense sensor network deployed without a reference relationship produces numbers that are interesting, contested, and unusable the moment somebody is asked to act on them.

Where SECCOM stops. Regulatory-grade compliance reporting stays with approved continuous ambient monitoring stations and the agencies that operate them. SECCOM builds supplemental and indicative networks, and says so plainly, so that a sensor reading is never mistaken for a regulatory one.