Detection of airborne contaminants in an enclosable environment

A method for determining a source of contaminants in air, the method comprising:

• inducing air flow through a flow path contained within a housing;
• generating raw sampling data from the air flowing through the flow path, wherein the raw sampling data describes at least two characteristics of contaminants in the air;
• establishing a detection threshold for a first characteristic of the contaminants in the air;
• identifying one or more occurrences of a contamination event based on a comparison of the first characteristic and the detection threshold;
• for each of the one or more occurrences of the contamination event, generating a data entry including the second characteristic, wherein the second characteristic is usable to determine the source of the contaminants in the air.

A system for use in determining a source of contaminants in air, the system comprising:

• an apparatus mounted within an at least partially enclosed environment and configured to:
• generate raw sampling data of the air, wherein the raw sampling data describes at least two characteristics of the contaminants in the air,
• identify one or more occurrences of a contamination event based on a comparison of a first characteristic and a detection threshold for the first characteristic of the contaminants in the air, and
• for each of the one or more occurrences of the contamination event, generate a data entry including a second characteristic of the contaminants in the air;
• and
• a remote computing device located externally from the at least partially enclosed environment, the remote computing device configured to receive the data entry for each of the one or more occurrences of the contamination event, wherein one of the apparatus or the remote computing device determines the source of the contaminants in the air from the second characteristic.