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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Towards the Development of a Sensor Educational Toolkit to Support Community and Citizen Science
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TL;DR: In this article , the authors assess sensor use and participant feedback, as well as discuss the development of an educational toolkit called Community in Action: A Comprehensive Toolkit on Air Quality Sensors.
Enabling Community-Based Air Quality Science Through the Development of Sensor Systems, Resources, and Partnerships
TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantified volatile organic compound using sensors to provide methane and non-methane hydrocarbon concentration estimates in complex environments, with the goal of collecting preliminary and supplementary information that may contribute to improved public and environmental health.
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Exposure assessment for air pollution epidemiology: A scoping review of emerging monitoring platforms and designs.
TL;DR: In this paper , a conceptual summary of novel monitoring designs for air pollution cohort studies that leverage new paradigms and technologies, to investigate their characteristics in real-world examples, and to offer practical guidance to future studies.
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Citizen-operated mobile low-cost sensors for urban PM2.5 monitoring: field calibration, uncertainty estimation, and application
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors build a network of citizen-operated Snifferbike sensors in Kristiansand, Norway, and calibrate the measurements using Machine Learning techniques to estimate the concentrations of PM2.5 along the city roads.
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Mapping air quality with a mobile crowdsourced air quality monitoring system (C-AQM)
TL;DR: This paper presents the main bases of the C-AQM system, which relies on Air Quality Monitoring reference stations and a cluster of new low-cost and low-energy sensor nodes, in order to improve the resolution of air quality maps.
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