IAQng is SpaceBot's public field map and toolset for room health.

IAQ is the familiar shorthand for indoor air quality. IAQng, Indoor Air Quality Next Generation, is SpaceBot's name for the broader room-health conversation we think the field needs next.

The goal is practical: make the people, standards, technologies, and operating practices behind healthier shared rooms easier to see, cite, evaluate, and use. SpaceBot sponsors IAQng, and that relationship should be visible.

Why this exists

Better buildings need better room-level judgment.

Indoor air quality is often discussed as a technical category: sensors, thresholds, ventilation rates, filters, particles, VOCs, humidity, and temperature. Those things matter. But facility decisions usually happen under messier conditions. A waiting room is not just a PM2.5 reading. It is a room with a size, purpose, crowding pattern, service history, cleaning needs, airflow constraints, complaints, public-health context, and people moving through it.

IAQng is SpaceBot's way of making that bigger room-health conversation public. We want to document the researchers, standards, technologies, service models, public-health signals, and operating practices that can help buildings become more responsive before the next outbreak, smoke event, surge, or maintenance problem makes the gap obvious.

This is not meant to be a neutral institute wearing a fake lab coat. It is a sponsored editorial and research initiative with clear attribution. SpaceBot is building in this field, and IAQng is where we explain what we are learning, who we are learning from, and what we think the next generation of indoor environmental health should look like.

Who SpaceBot is

SpaceBot builds intelligence for the rooms people actually use.

01 / Platform

Facilities AI for physical spaces

SpaceBot helps buildings understand what is happening in rooms, not just what is scheduled on a work order or assumed from a floor plan.

02 / Signals

Environment, usage, and behavior

The platform can combine environmental conditions with room usage signals such as occupancy, utilization, activity, talking, respiratory activity, and service events.

03 / Action

Smarter environmental services

SpaceBot's work is aimed at facility teams, cleaning teams, and service partners who need to prioritize, dispatch, verify, and learn from what happens in real spaces.

What IAQng covers

The field is bigger than sensors.

Research

Aerosols, healthy buildings, and infection risk

IAQng tracks the science that explains why rooms matter: airborne transmission, ventilation, filtration, source control, occupancy, speech, and exposure.

Operations

Cleaning and maintenance as daily health infrastructure

The site treats cleaning, inspection, dust control, moisture response, and service verification as part of the room-health story, not as cosmetic work.

Standards

Where guidance is moving

We follow the push toward stronger indoor air standards, healthcare guidance, ASHRAE 241, CDC/NIOSH recommendations, and practical building operations.

Signals

Room context plus community context

IAQng is interested in indoor conditions, outdoor AQI, smoke events, weather, wastewater trends, and other signals that can change how a facility should respond.

Editorial posture

Transparent sponsorship, cited claims, practical boundaries.

IAQng cites outside work and names the people, universities, standards bodies, nonprofits, agencies, operators, and builders moving the field forward.

The site should be clear when something is SpaceBot's point of view, product thinking, or operating thesis. Inclusion on IAQng does not mean endorsement of SpaceBot.

Room-health intelligence is not medical diagnosis. The goal is operational context: what is happening in the room, what may be driving risk, and what action a facility team should consider next.

Corrections, missing sources, nominations, and better language are part of maintaining the map. The field is moving quickly, and the site should improve as the record improves.

Start here

Read the manifesto, explore the tools, then follow the field map.

IAQng will be most useful if it becomes a place where good work is surfaced, credited, debated, and translated into better building operations.

Read the manifesto Try the risk model Plan interventions Explore the field map Read editorial standards