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by stevep001 1055 days ago
I'd be a buyer if you had an indoor unit with a radon sensor.
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Why would you want a radon sensor in a product that does constant monitoring?

Radon concentration is not a transient state, and you need to measure it for a fairly long time to get a good idea of the true concentration.

Doesn’t your second sentence adequately explain your first sentence? Something that does constant monitoring would surely be good at measuring for a “fairly long time”.
I mean that you need to accumulate the readings for a long time because the specific activity is so low.
We have looked into adding a radon sensor but it is very difficult to get an off-the-shelf radon module in the market that is reasonably priced.

If any of you can recommend a module I would be very interested to hear.

Repackaging these sensors might be a better play than an OTS procurement model. Lots of people are making pretty packages for commodity sensors. Few are developing new sensor packages.