Can commercial low-cost sensor platforms contribute to air quality monitoring and exposure estimates?

Environment International

Volumn 99, Issue , 2017, Pages 293-302

  Castell, Nuria ^a   Dauge, Franck R ^a   Schneider, Philipp ^a   Vogt, Matthias ^a   Lerner, Uri ^b   Fishbain, Barak ^b   Broday, David ^b   Bartonova, Alena ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Air pollution monitoring; Exposure estimates; Low cost sensor nodes; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; COST ESTIMATING; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; POLLUTION DETECTION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SENSOR NODES;

AIR POLLUTION MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPEAN STANDARDIZATION ORGANIZATIONS; EXPOSURE ESTIMATES; LOW-COST SENSORS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

AIR QUALITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION MONITORING; SENSOR;

ACCURACY; AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PARTICULATE MATTER; SCORING SYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSOR; URBAN AREA; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; DEVICES; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; NORWAY; PROCEDURES; TIME FACTOR; WEATHER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; NORWAY; TIME FACTORS; WEATHER;

EID: 85009423943     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2016.12.007     Document Type: Article

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