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The EDIAQI Market Watch is a dedicated observatory designed to monitor how the IAQ domain is evolving. It provides a structured and continuously updated overview of key trends, helping identify opportunities, emerging gaps, and potential pathways for innovation.

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This collective effort is powered by the contributions of EDIAQI partners, whose insights and experiences across different domains ensure that the content reflects real-world needs, market perspectives, and technological developments.

The Market Watch focuses on three main areas of monitoring:

  • Market Landscape, tracking solutions, actors, and evolving market segments
  • Innovation Trends, analysing emerging tools, approaches, and research initiatives
  • Policy & Regulation, following key legislative developments and regulatory trends

Market Landscape

IAQ becomes a core ESG and business performance indicator

Indoor air quality is emerging as a key component of ESG strategies, extending beyond compliance to influence wellbeing, productivity and asset value. Organisations are increasingly adopting continuous IAQ monitoring and integrating data into smart building systems, enabling real-time optimisation of indoor environments. This shift positions IAQ as a strategic driver of both sustainability and operational efficiency.

Recap: Clean Air, Clear Returns – The Economic Imperative of Indoor Air Quality for Europe and Beyond

Clean Air, Clear Returns, a joint EDIAQI and K-HEALTHinAIR webinar, explored the economic costs of poor indoor air quality and the opportunities created by effective IAQ management. Speakers examined health and productivity impacts, market and regulatory barriers, and the role of data-driven tools in decision making. The discussion highlighted the strong economic case for investing in healthier indoor environments across Europe.

Innovation Trends

Real-time platforms and user-friendly dashboards enabling data-driven IAQ insights

International research and academic initiatives are increasingly focusing on the development of real-time monitoring networks and accessible data platforms for indoor air quality. For example, the Global IAQ Observatory is building a large-scale infrastructure based on continuous real-time data collection and predictive modelling, aimed at supporting policymakers with actionable insights on indoor environments.

Recap: Out of Thin Air — Making Indoor Air Quality Data Make Sense

This article recaps the EDIAQI webinar “Out of Thin Air: Making Indoor Air Quality Data Make Sense,” which explored how growing volumes of indoor air quality data can be translated into meaningful insights for decision-makers. Speakers discussed the role of dashboards, digital twins, UX design and behavioural approaches in transforming complex IAQ measurements into clear, actionable intelligence for healthier buildings.

Policy & Regulation

EU countries to implement updated building directive by May 2026

EU Member States are required to transpose the revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) into national or regional legislation by May 2026. This milestone marks a significant step in the European strategy to improve both energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality across the building sector.

AI and real-time analytics transforming IAQ monitoring

Recent studies and international initiatives highlight a major shift in indoor air quality (IAQ) monitoring, driven by the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), IoT sensors, and advanced data analytics. According to the World Economic Forum, AI-enabled systems are increasingly able to process large volumes of sensor data in real time, significantly improving the accuracy of air quality monitoring.