Can commercial low-cost sensor platforms contribute to air quality monitoring and exposure estimates?
Nuria Castell,Franck R. Dauge,Philipp Schneider,Matthias Vogt,Uri Lerner,Barak Fishbain,David M. Broday,Alena Bartonova +7 more
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An exhaustive evaluation of 24 identical units of a commercial low-cost sensor platform against CEN (European Standardization Organization) reference analyzers, evaluating their measurement capability over time and a range of environmental conditions shows that their performance varies spatially and temporally.About:
This article is published in Environment International.The article was published on 2017-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 607 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Data quality & Environmental exposure.read more
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Particulate matter indoors: a strategy to sample and monitor size-selective fractions
Benjamin Bergmans,Andrea Cattaneo,Regina M.B.O. Duarte,João Gomes,Dikaia Saraga,Mila Ródenas García,Xavier Querol,Leonarda F. Liotta,John Safell,Andrea Spinazzè,Sabrina Rovelli,Francesca Borghi,Domenico Maria Cavallo,Florentina Villanueva,Alessia Di Gilio,Th. Maggos,Victor G. Mihucz +16 more
TL;DR: In this article , a review of the main methods suitable for the analysis of indoor PM with their respective main influencing parameters is presented, and specific awareness is raised to avoid wrong data interpretation in specific situations.
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Optimal Multi-type Sensor Placements in Gaussian Spatial Fields for Environmental Monitoring
TL;DR: This paper focuses on the optimal multi-type sensor placement in Gaussian spatial field for environmental monitoring in Hong Kong and proposes two greedy algorithms accordingly, each with a provable approximation guarantee.
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Analysis and evaluation of the regional air quality index forecasting based on web-text sentiment analysis method
TL;DR: A web-text analysis based regional air quality index forecasting (WEBT-RAQIF) method for theAir quality index monitoring development and evaluation of pollution research is suggested.
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Development of a low-cost measuring system for the monitoring of environmental parameters that affect air quality for human health
TL;DR: The proposed system is a prototype in the initial phase, so only the operational capabilities of the system were evaluated, the response of the sensors to step-type inputs and the measurement of background concentrations in urban interior environments.
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First Results of the Application of a Citizen Science-Based Mobile Monitoring System to the Study of Household Heating Emissions
TL;DR: In this paper , a system named COCAL was developed to support all the phases of air quality monitoring, from data acquisition, georeferencing, transmission, and processing up to web mapping.
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