Viable air sampling tells you what happened three to five days ago. By then the excursion is over, the batch has moved downstream, and prevention is no longer on the table — only investigation is. Sensio Air closes that window to minutes, so contamination becomes something you act on rather than something you report.
Continuous · Room-level · ISO 14644-aligned · BACnet/IP native
The same excursion, tracked two ways. The difference is not accuracy. It is whether the information arrives while intervention is still possible.
The result is accurate and completely unactionable. Five days of production has already passed through the affected zone. The investigation begins where the prevention should have been.
OUTCOME: DEVIATION · BATCH REVIEW · POSSIBLE QUARANTINEThe excursion is flagged, traced to a zone, and resolved inside the same shift — and the return to baseline is captured as evidence. No batch crosses a boundary you couldn't see.
OUTCOME: LOGGED EVENT · CORRECTIVE ACTION · NO PRODUCT IMPACTDetection on its own just relocates the anxiety. The value is in the full cycle — anticipate, catch, act, and prove the air came back. Sensio Air is built to close it.
Baseline every controlled zone and model its normal biological signature. Drift shows up as a trend weeks before it shows up as an excursion.
Identify what is actually in the air — fungal spores, bacterial-carrying particles, allergens — not a chemical proxy for it. Room-level, under four minutes.
Push the event straight into the systems that can respond — HVAC, pressure cascade, gowning protocol, line hold — through native BMS integration.
Every excursion, intervention and return-to-baseline is timestamped and retained — an audit trail that shows the control worked, not just that it existed.
That distinction is the whole difference between a number you log and a decision you make. Sensio Air classifies the biological content of the air continuously.
Aspergillus and related spore classes — the contamination category most likely to originate in the building envelope rather than the process.
Airborne particles in the size range that transports viable bacterial load, tracked continuously instead of sampled periodically.
Not "pollen detected" — which species, at what concentration, cross-referenced against external load and weather.
Full particle-size distribution retained alongside the biological layer, so classification sits on top of conventional counting rather than replacing it.
| Approach | What it actually tells you | When you can act |
|---|---|---|
| CO₂ / VOC sensors | Chemical proxies for occupancy and ventilation | Never — wrong signal entirely |
| Particle counters | Size bins with no biological identity | Real time, but you don't know what you found |
| Settle plates / active sampling | Viable counts, high confidence | 3–5 days later |
| HVAC filter monitoring | Filter condition — a lagging indicator | After air quality has already degraded |
| Sensio Air | Biological classification with size distribution | Under four minutes, at zone level |
The comparison that matters isn't Sensio Air against a sensor budget. It's Sensio Air against the cost of the last event you couldn't see coming.
The range across sterile and biologic manufacturing. One avoided quarantine typically exceeds a multi-zone deployment by an order of magnitude.
Every incubation period is production time with no biological visibility. Continuous monitoring removes the interval rather than shortening it.
An inspector asking what the air was doing at 03:40 on a given night gets an answer, with the corrective action attached — not a sampling schedule.
Contamination control is site-specific. A short call is usually more useful than another datasheet — bring your zone classifications and your current sampling regime.
Fifteen minutes, no deck. We'll go through where continuous monitoring would sit alongside your existing viable sampling, and what a pilot would actually involve.
We don't ask anyone to take the argument on faith. Instrument a single critical zone, run it alongside your existing sampling programme, and compare what each one saw.