RESET^® Air Index

The RESET Air Index is an index for communicating indoor environment quality based on concentrations of multiple types of pollutants, including PM2.5, CO2, and TVOC. Unlike AQI, which only reflects the worst pollutant, the RESET Air Index is designed to reflect all pollutants.

1. What is the RESET Air Index

RESET Air provides a tangible return on investment for offices and property owners. For offices, RESET Air enables healthier spaces and more productive spaces. For property owners, RESET Air empowers the communication of healthier, more productive buildings to prospective tenants.

2. Intent of the RESET Air Index

The RESET Air Index communicates indoor environment quality based on concentrations of multiple types of pollutant.

The RESET Air Index's intent is to tackle the following:

• Takes into consideration multiple indicators and their impact to the air quality

  Unlike AQI, which only reflects the worst pollutant indicator, the RESET Air Index reflects all indicators.

• Takes into account the cumulative effect of pollutants in the air

  A single pollutant with high concentration causes more harm to human health than several low concentration pollutants. The RESET Air Index rates the sum of concentrations where a the single pollutant is at higher concentrations more harmful than if there are multiple lower concentration pollutants.

• Leverages the Performance Targets of the RESET Air Standard

  The RESET Air Index takes consideration the performance targets set by the RESET Air Standard, where if concentration of air quality indicators meets the targets as set by the RESET Air Standard, the RESET Air Index decreases slowly when concentration increases. But once the concentration for the indicators fail to meet the performance targets in the standard, the RESET Air Index will start to drop quickly.

• Flexibility for Additional Indicators

  The methodology is flexible to allow for the inclusion of additional indicators, with a maximum number of 10 without any further adjustments needed.

• Easy Communication with Percentile Display

  The RESET Air Index is displayed in percentile, which makes it easy to communicate good vs. bad with the best score being 100%.

3. RESET Air Index Algorithm

More information coming soon.

Step 2 - Calculate Points Lost

The algorithm attributes points lost to the RESET Air Index for each indicator based on the concentration.

For each C_i, we calculate the points lost, l_i, using piecewise linear function:

where:

• l_i = the number of points lost due to the indicator.
• C_i = the concentration of the indicator.
• C_low = the breakpoint value right below C_i and L_low is the corresponding point lost value.
• C_high = the breakpoint value right above and L_high is the corresponding point lost value.

The breakpoints for the different indicators can be found below:

For PM2.5 (ug/m³):

Clow	Chigh	Llow	Lhigh
0	15	0	0
15	35	0	11.5
35	120	11.5	100

For TVOC (ug/m³):

Clow	Chigh	Llow	Lhigh
0	200	0	0
200	500	0	11.5
500	1000	11.5	100

For CO₂ (ppm):

Clow	Chigh	Llow	Lhigh
0	600	0	0
600	800	0	11.5
800	2500	11.5	100

Step 3 - Add up the total points lost

Add up the total points loss of each indicator. Calculate the total points lost, L, using p-norm as below:

Let l = (l₁, l₁,..., l_n)

where p = 2

Step 4 - Inverse the Result

Take the total points loss and subtract it from 100 to get the RESET Air Index, I:

I should be displayed as a percent.

4. Example Scenarios

Below are a couple scenarios and the corresponding RESET Air Index:

5. Performance Categories

Recommended labels and colors to be used with the RESET Air Index: