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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Design, fabrication, and calibration of the Building EnVironment and Occupancy (BEVO) Beacon: A rapidly-deployable and affordable indoor environmental quality monitor
Hagen Fritz,Sepehr Bastami,Calvin S. H. Lin,Kingsley Nweye,Tung To,Lauren Chen,Dung Van Le,Angelina Ibarra,Wendy Zhang,June Young Park,William J. Waites,Mengjia Tang,Pawel K. Misztal,Atila Novoselac,Edison Thomaz,Kerry A. Kinney,Zoltan Nagy +16 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors presented the Building EnVironment and Occupancy (BEVO) Beacon, which is an open-source, low-cost sensor for indoor air quality monitoring.
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Mitigating the impact of air pollution on dementia and brain health: Setting the policy agenda.
Brian Castellani,Suzanne Bartington,Jonathan Wistow,Neil Heckels,Amanda Ellison,Martie van Tongeren,Steve R. Arnold,Peter Barbrook-Johnson,Martha Bicket,Francis D. Pope,Tom C. Russ,Charlotte L. Clarke,Monica Pirani,Matthias Schwannauer,Massimo Vieno,Rachel Turnbull,Nigel Gilbert,Stefan Reis +17 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors worked as a consortium of 20+ academics in a participatory and consensus method to develop the first policy agenda for mitigating air pollution's impact on brain health and dementia, including an umbrella review and engaging 11 stakeholder organisations.
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Performance characterization of low-cost air quality sensors for off-grid deployment in rural Malawi
Andrew P. Grieshop,Carl Malings,Ashley Bittner,Paulina del Carmena Fernández Gutiérrez,A Boyle,S. S. Poorna +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors compared the performance of five computational modeling approaches to calibrate the electrochemical gas sensors: k-nearest neighbors (kNN), random forest (RF), high-dimensional model representation (HDMR), multilinear regression (MLR), and quadratic regression (QR) for the CO, Ox, NO, and NO2 sensors.
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Low-cost monitoring of atmospheric PM—development and testing
TL;DR: In this article , the performance of an LBS (Plantower PMS7003) was investigated for real-time, spatially dense monitoring using a network of low-cost sensors (LCS) as a way to alleviate the problem of PM.
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Influence of particle properties and environmental factors on the performance of typical particle monitors and low-cost particle sensors in the market of China
Wu Dan,Joost Schuitemaker,Zhang Guocheng,Jiaqi Liu,Shen Shangyi,Yang Zhenqi,Pan Yiting,Zhao Xiaoning,Siyuan Yang,Ying Tian,Zhao Hongda,Jingjing Li,Li Cai +12 more
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