EMISSIONS MANAGEMENT

AQMIS

Ambient Quality Management Information System

AQMIS, developed by Lakes Environmental Software, is an advanced environmental compliance solution designed to centralize all environmental data within your organization. By automating and streamlining complex tasks, AQMIS helps reduce operational costs and improve efficiency. The system (Ambient Quality Management Information System) consolidates environmental data, modeling tools, analytics, data visualization including mapping, and reporting into one seamless, online platform.

AQMIS Overview Benefits
AQMIS System Dashboard
ADVANTAGES

AQMIS Benefits

AQMIS is trusted by regulatory agencies, consultants, and industrial clients worldwide to accurately measure, analyze, and report emissions and conduct complex air quality studies. This combination of flexibility, scalability, and powerful features makes AQMIS the preferred choice for organizations seeking to enhance environmental performance.

Eliminate Manual Workload

Detect Trends Instantly

Automated Compliance

Streamline Data Management

Transparency and Accountability

Simplify Complex Calculations

Flexible Deployment

Access Data Anytime

Online Data Entry

Automated Data Capture

Real-time Analytics

Automated Reporting

Improved Communication

Centralized Accessibility

EMISSIONS MANAGEMENT

AQMIS Modules

Customize your AQMIS experience by integrating specialized modules tailored to your specific environmental management needs. From advanced data analysis and reporting to real-time monitoring and regulatory compliance tools, enhance your system with the features that matter most to you.

Emissions Inventory

Emissions Inventory

The Emissions Inventory module offers a comprehensive database to manage emissions at the process, facility, and airshed levels. User-friendly tools allow seamless import and export of data for various source types, including stacks, nonroad and onroad sources, and tanks. Emissions calculation tools, such as U.S. EPA AP-42, enable both individual and batch calculations. AQMIS supports unlimited pollutants and sources, with the flexibility to create custom emissions calculators.

Ambient Air Monitoring

Ambient Air Monitoring

The AQMIS Ambient Air Monitoring module enables easy import, export, and organization of monitoring data, either through templates or near-real-time processes. Customizable charts, graphs, and tables illustrate trends, identify exceedances, flag data quality issues, and provide valuable insights. Users can also compare observed data with air dispersion model results to validate both model performance and instrument accuracy.

Air Dispersion Modeling

Air Dispersion Modeling

The Air Dispersion Modeling module enables air dispersion modeling using your source and emissions data, supporting popular models like AERMOD, CALPUFF, SCICHEM, WRF-CHEM, CMAQ, and CAMx. Models run directly within AQMIS using high-performance computing, allowing simulations with hundreds of sources to be completed in minutes. Users can easily compare scenarios and assess impacts over large areas.

Historical meteorological data in WRF or MM5 format is readily available for model runs. Users can configure model inputs, including release points, buildings, sensitive receptors, and grids, using guided wizards or file uploads. Results can be compared to air quality standards, summarized in reports, and displayed on maps.

Solid Waste

Solid Waste

The Solid Waste module streamlines waste management, ensuring compliance with hazardous waste regulations for generation, handling, transportation, storage, and disposal. Its robust features help companies and regulators manage waste, ensure compliance, and enhance environmental performance.

The module offers centralized waste profiling capabilities, allowing regulated entities to securely submit profiles online, saving time and reducing administrative burdens. Track waste processes from start to finish, identify bottlenecks, and improve system efficiencies. Dashboards provide a single view for generators, transporters, service brokers, and waste facilities to visualize and monitor all waste in transit.

Water Quality

Water Quality

The Water Quality module provides comprehensive tools for monitoring and reporting water quality, such as drinking water, stormwater, wastewater, and groundwater. Its intuitive interface incorporates advanced data analytics techniques for easy use.

Key features include real-time data access, a centralized data center, customizable calculators, and extensive tracking functions. Data can be easily exported to popular document formats and presented in reports generated from simple or complex queries.

Human Health Risk Assessment

Human Health Risk Assessment

AQMIS fully implements the U.S. EPA Human Health Risk Assessment Protocol (HHRAP), providing standardized methodologies for assessing both cancer and non-cancer health effects with precision. Users can conduct comprehensive risk analysis for specific locations and visualize results in the GIS/mapping display for better decision-making.

Additionally, AQMIS supports specific risk assessment requirements, including prioritizing facilities for in-depth evaluations based on established guidelines such as those used in California.

Permitting and Compliance

Permitting and Compliance

The extensive Permitting and Compliance module in AQMIS provides tools to manage permitting and compliance requirements for numerous users and facilities. It includes all necessary tools, forms, reports, and automation to streamline the collection of data from all sources.

AQMIS tracks permit applications and development, issues permits to facilities, monitors stack testing and related activities, handles complaints and exceedances, and more, all within a single application.

Calendar and Ticketing

Calendar and Ticketing

The Calendar and Ticketing module supports your project management and scheduling needs. Users can manually create tickets to track progress and set due dates for tasks. Built-in functions allow automatic generation and assignment of customizable tickets when wizards or tools are executed, triggering the next set of defined activities.

The calendar provides an up-to-date view of pending, in progress, or overdue tasks, along with the individuals responsible for each task.

Mapping (GIS)

Mapping (GIS)

AQMIS allows you to visualize project data in a geospatial environment using our proprietary GIS and mapping module. Since GIS tools are included, you don’t need to purchase third-party utilities, although you can connect with popular tools if desired. The AQMIS GIS/Mapping tool is fully compatible with ESRI products and can export maps in SHP format.

The Mapping module provides high-resolution satellite imagery for project locations, overlaid with your geospatial data, giving you full control over displayed layers and objects. You can easily show a wide variety of data on your map, including facilities, release points, air quality indices, air dispersion modeling contours, and other relevant environmental factors.

Reporting

Reporting

Provides a complete internal reporting system without needing third-party software. It allows you to prepare products with options ranging from professionally formatted standard reports to customizable ad-hoc reporting. Report types include textual and graphical reports, tabular summaries, and GIS-based mapping and data visualization.

Data summaries can be customized using various queries and reporting tools, and all reports are fully searchable. The module enables secure analysis of data stored in the database, allowing you to run reports and prepare printed or electronic copies. Reports can be saved in formats like PDF, CSV, Microsoft® Excel and Word, XML, and image formats. Pre-configured report templates are available, along with the ability to create and save ad-hoc reports.

Systems Administration

Systems Administration

AQMIS offers a comprehensive suite of tools for systems administration, focusing on user management with role-based access rights to define permitted screens, objects, and inventories for each user or group.

The portal supports secure data transmission between public and internal software versions, allowing individual data components to be marked as confidential or tagged with custom properties. All changes to system data and access are logged for review by system administrators at any time. System administrators can review all logged changes to data and access at any time.

Analytics

Analytics

The Analytics module offers a suite of graphical and tabular tools for comprehensive data analysis. Users can review data across the inventory and filter results by pollutant, equipment type, or parameter. For those using the monitoring module, it includes features to analyze Air Quality Index (AQI) data for insights into air quality trends.

The module enables users to view detailed AQI data across monitoring stations, analyze pollutant breakdowns, and assess trends over daily, seasonal, and annual periods. It also provides tools for generating percentage-based AQI views by station or pollutant and evaluating average daily pollutant concentrations for thorough air quality analysis.

EMISSIONS MANAGEMENT

AQMIS Dashboards and Key Features

AQMIS offers dynamic dashboards that let you customize views and generate powerful analytics with ease. Gain actionable insights and make informed decisions with streamlined, data-driven visuals.

Main Dashboard

  • Overview of active emission inventory years, facilities, and pollutants.
  • Media-specific totals for air, water, wastewater, and solid waste.
  • Interactive maps for facility locations and emissions by region or facility.
  • Customizable graphs by pollutant or region.

Emissions Dashboard

  • Aggregated emissions data across source types, pollutants, and regions.
  • Temporal trends and multi-year analyses.
  • Customizable views for role-specific focus and easy data export (PDF, Excel, CSV, etc.).

Facility Dashboard

  • Comprehensive facility data at a glance: emissions controls, release points, classification codes, and more.
  • Interactive maps for facility location and regulatory oversight.

Air Dispersion Modeling (ADM)

  • View pollutant-specific air concentration contours and gradients.
  • Simulate multiple dispersion scenarios (e.g., historic, real-time, forecast).
  • Identify emission sources affecting modeling domains.

Risk Dashboard

  • Evaluate chronic and acute health risks by pollutant or exposure pathway.
  • Cumulative risk visualization against regulatory benchmarks.

Ambient Monitoring Station (AMS)

  • Detect exceedances of regulatory thresholds or custom targets.
  • Explore temporal and spatial pollutant trends with interactive charts.
  • Automatically calculate and display Air Quality Index (AQI) metrics.

Air Quality Index (AQI)

  • Simplified AQI scores with real-time and forecasted data.
  • Insights on pollutant-specific health risks and recommended actions.
  • 24-hour AQI trend visualizations for public awareness.

Data Quality Dashboard

  • Visual summaries of data completeness and validity.
  • Classify data as Good, Bad, Critical, or Disconnected for rapid analysis.

Ticketing & Calendar

  • Track tasks and deadlines with color-coded statuses.
  • Filter tickets by assignment or due date for streamlined project management.

Administrative Dashboard

  • Monitor system usage and manage user access.
  • Review login trends, password resets, and user activities with customizable graphs.
PLATFORM CAPABILITIES

Key Platform Features

Sophisticated tools and validated engines that deliver proven benefits for environmental data management.

Validated Calculators

Thousands of validated emissions calculators backed by the US EPA, ensuring reliable and compliant data calculations.

Automated Engine

Automated calculation engine keeps emissions data up to date in real time, reducing manual effort and risk of errors.

Full Transparency

Full transparency into all calculation methods, equations, emissions factors, and activity data for audit trails.

Data Import Tools

Advanced data import tools allow seamless migration of legacy emissions inventory data, minimizing data loss.

Spreadsheet Management

Flexible spreadsheet import/export functionality for easy data management and reporting across agencies.

Effortless Updates

Effortless emissions updates for new reporting periods with just a few clicks, simplifying compliance efforts.

APPLICATIONS

Empowering Air Quality Professionals with a Modular Environmental Management System

Explore how AQMIS supports environmental agencies, regulated industries, and consultants with powerful solutions for effective environmental management. Discover its key applications and benefits today.

Environmental Agencies

For local, state, tribal, and federal environmental regulatory agencies, AQMIS provides significant benefits across a wide variety of use cases.

Regulated Industries

Industries sectors such as manufacturing, energy, and chemical processing, must adhere to strict environmental standards. AQMIS offers tools and features designed to help these sectors achieve compliance while optimizing output.

Environmental Consultants

Environmental consultants play a crucial role in helping businesses and organizations comply with environmental regulations and mitigate risks. AQMIS provides significant benefits and use cases tailored to their needs.

EMISSIONS MANAGEMENT

AQMIS Proven Benefits

Discover why regulatory agencies, consultants, and industrial clients worldwide rely on AQMIS to efficiently measure, analyze, and report their emissions with confidence!

Eliminate Manual Workload

Managing environmental data can be overwhelming with spreadsheets and manual calculations. AQMIS automates data collection, analysis, and reporting, eliminating repetitive tasks and reducing errors. Spend less time on data entry and more on engineering solutions.

Detect Trends Instantly

Identify emerging air quality issues before they become costly regulatory violations. AQMIS provides real-time monitoring and in-depth trend analysis, allowing you to instantly recognize pollution patterns, pinpoint sources, and take proactive measures.

Automated Data Capture

Manual data collection from air monitoring stations and sensors can be extremely time-consuming and prone to inconsistencies. AQMIS seamlessly integrates with monitoring equipment to automatically retrieve, process, and securely store data.

Streamline Data Management

With air quality data coming from multiple sources, it’s easy for information to become disorganized. AQMIS centralizes data storage, making it easier to manage, retrieve, and analyze key environmental metrics without searching through scattered files.

Enhance Transparency and Accountability

Clear, accurate reporting is essential when working with regulators and stakeholders. AQMIS facilitates transparency by providing real-time access to comprehensive data, maintaining audit trails, and ensuring that environmental decisions are based on trustworthy information.

Simplify Complex Calculations

Whether you’re running air dispersion models or calculating emissions, AQMIS automates complex computations with built-in tools. Reduce the chance of calculation errors while saving time and improving accuracy in your environmental assessments.

Centralized Data Management & Accessibility

Environmental data often resides in multiple locations, making it difficult to manage effectively. AQMIS centralizes all monitoring, modeling, and compliance data in one secure platform, ensuring that engineers and stakeholders can easily access information.

Access Data Anytime, Anywhere

We recognize that your important work doesn’t stop at your desk. AQMIS is a web-based solution that allows you and your team to securely access real-time air quality data, reports, and analytics from any device - office, on-site, or remote.

Real-Time Analytics & Decision Support

Making informed decisions requires real-time, accurate, and reliable data. AQMIS provides live dashboards, predictive analytics, and advanced visualization tools, enabling you to assess air quality conditions instantly and take action before problems escalate.

Automated Reporting & Documentation

Regulatory reporting deadlines can be stressful. AQMIS automates the generation of compliance reports, emissions summaries, and other documentation, ensuring that your reports are always accurate, up-to-date, and ready for submission on time.

Deploy Flexibly to Adapt to Your Workflow

Every organization has unique needs. AQMIS offers flexible deployment options—including cloud-based and on-premise hosting - so you can seamlessly integrate AQMIS into your existing workflow and IT requirements without disruption.

Improved Communication & Transparency

Collaboration is key in environmental management. AQMIS enhances communication between engineers and stakeholders by providing shared access to critical air quality data, automated alerts, and clear documentation to support decision-making.

Powerful

Effortlessly manage large volumes of air quality data with AQMIS, designed for seamless data import, analysis, and reporting. This powerful tool simplifies regulatory compliance.

Flexible

Allows you to customize displays, user access levels, and reports to suit your specific requirements. This flexibility ensures a tailored experience for efficient management.

Scalable

The modular system and scalable design deliver significant cost savings while ensuring a customized solution that meets your specific needs.

Modular

With AQMIS, you can purchase only the components you need, ensuring a cost-effective and tailored solution. This modular approach lets you build a unique system.

SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Your Trusted Solution for Regulatory and Industrial Emissions

Discover why regulatory agencies, consultants, and industrial clients worldwide rely on AQMIS to efficiently measure, analyze, and report their emissions with confidence!

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AQMIS Purchase Options

Flexible acquisition models to suit your organization's financial and technical requirements.

Enterprise License

One-Time Capital Purchase

AQMIS is available through a one-time capital purchase for an enterprise perpetual license with annual maintenance and technical support due after the first year of ownership.

Subscription Purchase

Software as a Service (SaaS)

AQMIS is also offered through the SaaS purchase model. This subscription-based offering provides users a flexible, cloud-hosted solution with updates and support, paid on a monthly or annual basis.

WHY CHOOSE AQMIS

Why Choose AQMIS?

Experience the power of AQMIS to transform complex environmental data into actionable insights.

Customizable

Tailor dashboards to your role and responsibilities.

Insightful Visuals

Explore data trends with interactive maps, charts, and graphs.

Efficient Reporting

Export data in multiple formats for seamless communication.

Regulatory Compliance

Simplify monitoring and reporting to meet industry standards.

USE CASES

Environmental Management Use Cases

AQMIS supports a variety of use cases and benefits. Explore the main environmental management use cases and benefits below.

Regulated Industries

Environmental Consultants

Regulatory Agencies

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