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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Disposable Sensors in Diagnostics, Food, and Environmental Monitoring.
Can Dincer,Richard Bruch,Estefanía Costa-Rama,M.T. Fernández-Abedul,Arben Merkoçi,Andreas Manz,Gerald Urban,Firat Güder +7 more
TL;DR: A brief insight into the materials and basics of sensors (methods of transduction, molecular recognition, and amplification) is provided followed by a comprehensive and critical overview of the disposable sensors currently used for medical diagnostics, food, and environmental analysis.
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Applications of low-cost sensing technologies for air quality monitoring and exposure assessment: How far have they gone?
Lidia Morawska,Phong K. Thai,Xiaoting Liu,Akwasi Bonsu Asumadu-Sakyi,Godwin A. Ayoko,Alena Bartonova,Andrea Bedini,Fahe Chai,Bryce Christensen,Matthew Dunbabin,Jian Gao,Gayle S.W. Hagler,Rohan Jayaratne,Prashant Kumar,Alexis K.H. Lau,Peter K.K. Louie,Mandana Mazaheri,Zhi Ning,Nunzio Motta,Ben Mullins,Mahmudur Rahman,Zoran Ristovski,Mahnaz Shafiei,Dian Tjondronegoro,Dane Westerdahl,Ronald Williams +25 more
TL;DR: Over the past decade, a range of sensor technologies became available on the market, enabling a revolutionary shift in air pollution monitoring and assessment, and it can be argued that with a significant future expansion of monitoring networks, including indoor environments, there may be less need for wearable or portable sensors/monitors to assess personal exposure.
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End-user perspective of low-cost sensors for outdoor air pollution monitoring.
Aakash C. Rai,Prashant Kumar,Francesco Pilla,Andreas N. Skouloudis,Silvana Di Sabatino,Carlo Ratti,Ansar Yasar,David G. Rickerby +7 more
TL;DR: The performance characteristics of several low-cost particle and gas monitoring sensors are reviewed and recommendations to end-users for making proper sensor selection are provided by summarizing the capabilities and limitations of such sensors.
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A machine learning calibration model using random forests to improve sensor performance for lower-cost air quality monitoring
Naomi Zimmerman,Albert A. Presto,Sriniwasa P. N. Kumar,Jason Gu,Aliaksei Hauryliuk,Ellis S. Robinson,Allen L. Robinson,R. Subramanian +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the Real-time Affordable Multi-Pollutant (RAMP) sensor package is used to measure CO, NO2, O3, and CO2.
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Mapping urban air quality in near real-time using observations from low-cost sensors and model information.
TL;DR: The results indicate that the data fusion method provides a robust way of extracting useful information from uncertain sensor data using only a time-invariant model dataset and the knowledge contained within an entire sensor network.
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