About IAQng
IAQng is a public resource built and maintained by SpaceBot. It connects current air conditions, historical air-quality records, environmental context, indoor-air evidence, and the practical decisions someone has to make about a real room or building.
What IAQng is
IAQng, short for Indoor Air Quality Next Generation, publishes the sources, tools, and records that make air quality legible enough to act on. The organizing idea is that a room is a system rather than a sensor reading: occupancy, activity, airflow, filtration, cleaning, service history, outdoor conditions, and public-health signals all change what the right response is.
Most air information stops at a number. IAQng is written for the moment after the number, when someone has to decide what a space needs, do it, and then show that something changed. Where a page makes a judgment, it says so, names the source, and states what the evidence does not cover.
The site is built to be useful to a reader who never becomes a SpaceBot customer.
What you can find here
IAQng is one connected resource rather than a set of unrelated microsites. The main content families:
- Current conditions Smoke Map and Air Map for what the air is doing now, and Environmental Cameras for visual context alongside the readings.
- Historical context Air Records ranks observed PM2.5 for 100 U.S. metros, so a current reading can be compared against the local record rather than judged on its own. Air events names the episodes behind those days and shows the evidence each cause rests on.
- Field knowledge The Manifesto and Room Model explain how IAQng frames air, people, service, and context.
- Sources and reuse Editorial standards covers sourcing, data status, corrections, and sponsorship. Press and reuse covers what journalists and creators may republish, and on what terms.
Who it is for
The primary reader is someone responsible for shared space: a facilities leader, building operator, environmental services team, school administrator, clinic manager, public-health practitioner, indoor-air researcher, clean-air advocate, or product builder. Journalists, local newsrooms, and weather and environmental communicators use the records, maps, and reusable media.
Different pages serve different moments. A reporter working a smoke event needs something different from an operator planning filtration or a researcher correcting the historical record, so the pages are not written to a single template.
Who operates it
IAQng is built, funded, and maintained by SpaceBot, which sells facilities AI to the same organizations this site is written for. That is a commercial interest in the subject matter, and it is disclosed rather than managed around.
- IAQng and SpaceBot are not independent of each other. IAQng is a SpaceBot publication. It is not an institute, a standards body, a certification program, or a regulator, and it does not present itself as one.
- Editorial responsibility sits with the SpaceBot team that maintains the site. Corrections and rights questions route to the same team.
- Being named on IAQng is not an endorsement. Appearing in a source list, a record page, or the field pages does not mean a person or organization supports SpaceBot or any product, and inclusion is not sold.
Scope and limitations
IAQng publishes environmental and operational context. Several boundaries follow from that, and they apply to every page:
- Not medical advice or diagnosis. Nothing here assesses an individual's health or scores personal risk.
- Not engineering sign-off. The tools support a decision; they do not replace design review, commissioning, or a qualified engineer.
- Not a substitute for facility policy or for a regulatory measurement.
- Camera imagery is visual context, not measurement. A camera view is not evidence that smoke is present and is never used as an air-quality reading.
- Much of the current air data is preliminary. Fast-publishing sources revise their readings. Pages label data status where it affects the conclusion.
Air Records rank observed PM2.5. A high ranking says the particle levels were unusual for that metro; it does not by itself assign a cause. Named causes appear only where IAQng has published the supporting evidence.
Contact and corrections
Corrections are the most useful thing you can send. The ones that change a page name the claim, identify the weak source or missing context, and point to something better. Submit one through the form on editorial standards, which also describes how corrections are reviewed and recorded.
Journalists, newsrooms, and creators should start at press and reuse for reuse terms, attribution, and a direct press contact. For anything else, reach the team through SpaceBot or at iaqng@spacebot.ai.