Applied Particle Technology

Applied Particle Technology (APT) provides real-time industrial air monitoring for dust and respirable silica in mining and heavy industry. Its platform combines stationary and wearable sensors that stream air quality data wirelessly to the cloud with browser-based software offering color-coded alerts, heat maps, exposure timelines, body cam footage review, similar exposure group (SEG) analysis and compliance-ready records. The stated aim is to replace or supplement traditional gravimetric sampling, which the company says takes weeks to return lab results and leaves coverage gaps, so that overexposures can be identified by task, area and shift and addressed before they become regulatory violations.

The company positions its offering around both environmental compliance (fugitive dust and opacity tracking, fenceline monitoring, responses to community complaints, air permit compliance) and occupational health and safety (worker exposure monitoring, MSHA silica standard readiness, verification of engineering controls). Named user roles include environmental managers, safety managers, industrial hygienists, and plant and operations managers. Applications span mining, cement and asphalt, construction, manufacturing, utilities and research, and case studies referenced by the company include a NIOSH silica monitoring study using low-cost dust monitors, an aggregates producer monitoring fugitive dust, and a British Columbia coal mine deployment [0][1][2].

Earlier public accounts describe a broader air-quality technology base: an air purification/filtration system using charging capture technology intended to remove particulates, inactivate bacteria and viruses and remove gaseous pollutants [6], and work on an intelligent air sterilization system for commercial HVAC in hospitals and clean rooms [4][7]. Federal research work has included SBIR projects on soft X-ray enhanced electrostatic precipitation for indoor air purification, photoionization-enhanced electrostatic precipitation for air sterilization in medical isolation units, and an optical instrument for lunar dust monitoring [7].