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Why did Polygon develop ExactAire Remote Monitoring System?

David Simkins, the Director of Engineering and Technology at Polygon US, introduces the Exact Air remote monitoring system. He explains that this system, developed over several years and currently in its fourth and fifth generation (e4 and e5), was initially created to meet the Navy’s need for monitoring coatings in ballast tanks and ship holds….

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David Simkins, the Director of Engineering and Technology at Polygon US, introduces the Exact Air remote monitoring system. He explains that this system, developed over several years and currently in its fourth and fifth generation (e4 and e5), was initially created to meet the Navy’s need for monitoring coatings in ballast tanks and ship holds. The system ensures that climate conditions, surface temperatures, and moisture levels are suitable for coating applications, thereby protecting the integrity of warranties that can span decades.

David goes on to highlight that the technology expanded to address various other monitoring requirements. This includes tracking volatile organic gases, such as parasitic acid, ammonia, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide. The system also monitors air particles smaller than five microns, which can pose respiratory risks to humans.

Additionally, the Exact Air system enables filtration assessment and maintains negative pressure in certain spaces. David emphasizes that this technology aligns with the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT), where devices can measure and calculate safety conditions, both for individuals and building environments. He mentions that this real-time monitoring capability can benefit insurance companies, property management firms, and stakeholders by providing information on building conditions, potentially impacting building warranties, sales, and construction projects.

There is already growing interest from insurance companies in incentivizing customers to adopt real-time monitoring for construction sites and buildings.

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Hi. My name is David Simkins, and I am the director of engineering and technology for Polygon US. Today, I'm a talk to you a little bit about our Exact Air remote monitoring system. This is a system that has been developed over really a long number of years, our current system is called e four, and we're about to launch e five. But that indication is the fourth and fifth generation of the technology. Exact air was developed to meet a need primarily out of the Navy for monitoring coatings that were going into ballast tanks, ship holds and the like to ensure that the conditions of both the climate and the surface temperatures and moisture levels at at the steel were adequate to apply coatings. That became so important in the warranty process, if you will, for the coating suppliers that with our monitoring system doing real time measurements, the coding applicator would know that the conditions were ideal. And that information could then be presented to the coating manufacturer and the integrity of the warranties. Some of them as much as twenty or thirty years could be remain intact. So a lot of other factors hold on the technology after we developed it for the navy. We have been asked by many of our clients classic question can you do this and that this could be a lot of different things it has been the monitoring of volatile organic gases we've monitored parasitic acid ammonia carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide. We've looked at air particles specifically particles smaller than five microns that potentially would be respirable and harmful to humans. We've done filtration with the systems and looked at the same thing with the particles to make sure that our filters are braiding efficiently. Air pressures for some of our clients to make sure that we're maintaining a negative pressure against surrounding spaces So there's a lot of different solutions when we look at the exact error really. It's kind of the evolution of what we might call now the Internet of things or IoT. Now that's become a bit of a buzzword. And it's gonna translate in the future to technology that's basically gonna sit on your wall or sit on your phone, and it's gonna measure all these things that I've already mentioned, but it's gonna do some calculations to tell you whether or not where you're standing is a safe place. And then when you're not there, It's gonna monitor those buildings and it's gonna tell your insurance company it's gonna tell other stakeholders maybe the property management company that the building is operating in a good or bad condition. That could potentially translate into some type of building warranty when facility gets sold or as a new building is being constructed we're already seeing interest from insurance companies in terms of monitoring instruction, monitoring buildings in real time, and offering incentives to customers to do that type of monitoring. I look forward to sharing more about Exactery in the future with you all and thank you.

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