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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