On Friday 6 March, the EDIAQI Webinar Series hosted a new session titled “Out of Thin Air: Making Indoor Air Quality Data Make Sense.” The discussion explored a growing challenge in indoor air quality (IAQ): while sensors and monitoring technologies now generate vast amounts of environmental data, the real difficulty lies in translating that data into insights that support meaningful action.
During the session, the TwinAIR Project contributed to the discussion through a presentation by Marina Melero Muñoz, R&D Project Manager at Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES). Her presentation focused on how digital twins, a core concept explored within TwinAIR, can support more advanced IAQ monitoring, analysis and decision-making.
Digital twins combine sensor networks, simulation models and analytics to create dynamic representations of indoor environments. This allows IAQ systems to move beyond monitoring towards predictive and decision-support tools, linking air quality data with energy performance, ventilation strategies and occupant wellbeing.
Marina highlighted that digital twin dashboards must remain transparent and policy-aligned, particularly when informing building management decisions or renovation strategies. By integrating sensor data with modelling and health indicators, digital twins can help translate complex environmental signals into actionable insights for building operators and policymakers.
The webinar provided an excellent opportunity for TwinAIR to showcase its progress and key achievements in digital twin technologies for IAQ monitoring, while strengthening collaboration and knowledge exchange within the IAQ research community.
