CO vs COâ‚‚: we measure one, not the other
Carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide sound alike and the abbreviations look alike. They are completely different gases. Terrestream measures COâ‚‚ only.
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What Terrestream does not measure
Terrestream measures a specific set of air-quality parameters. There are many hazards it does not measure at all - here is a non-exhaustive list of common ones, and the dedicated detector or test to use instead.
SBS vs BRI vs MCS: three terms that are not interchangeable
"Sick building syndrome" gets used to mean three different things, and the difference matters because each leads to a different diagnostic path. Here is the disambiguation, with the room-by-room signatures the dashboard can and cannot help find.
Smoke detector vs IAQ monitor: not the same instrument
A common confusion: the sensor on your wall reads PM2.5, and smoke is PM2.5, so it must be a smoke alarm too. It is not. The two devices answer different questions on different timescales with different consequences for being wrong.
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