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Low-Cost Sensors and Citizen Science: Prospects, Pitfalls, and Paradigm Shifts



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  • Personal Author:
    Volckens J
  • Description:
    The advent of low-cost sensors for air quality monitoring provides an attractive prospect for environmental and occupational health. These devices, which typically generate real-time data, may be distributed at scales that offer unprecedented levels of spatial and temporal resolution. Both gas and particle sensors exist. When combined with other low-cost devices (e.g., wireless communications, microprocessors), these technologies show potential for enabling a paradigm-shift in the science and application of air quality measurement. Furthermore, when deployed in a crowdsourced (or citizen-science) framework, a compelling case can be made for revolutionary changes in how we conduct air quality monitoring. A flood of such low-cost sensors has permeated our field over the past few years. However, with these new sensors come age-old performance issues that have confounded measurement science for decades, namely: reliability, bias, repeatability, and specificity. This presentation will discuss the prospects and pitfalls of the growing low-cost sensor revolution, highlight recent research efforts in this area, and will provide recommendations for further development and implementation of these technologies to improve our ability to study air quality and its adverse effects on health. [Description provided by NIOSH]
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  • Publisher:
    Deutsche Gesetzliche Unfallversicherung e.V. (DGUV)
  • Document Type:
    Text
  • Funding:
    Grant
  • Genre:
    Abstract or Summary
  • Place as Subject:
  • CIO:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
  • Topic:
    Workplace Safety & Health
  • Location:
    North America
  • Pages in Document:
    38
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:20062908
  • Citation:
    AIRMON 2017: The 9th International Symposium on Modern Principles of Air Monitoring and Biomonitoring, June 11-15, 2017, Dresden, Germany. Berlin: Deutsche Gesetzliche Unfallversicherung e.V. (DGUV), 2017 Jun; :38
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    2017
  • Performing Organization:
    Colorado State University, Fort Collins
  • Peer Reviewed:
    False
  • Start Date:
    20150901
  • Source Full Name:
    AIRMON 2017: The 9th International Symposium on Modern Principles of Air Monitoring and Biomonitoring, June 11-15, 2017, Dresden, Germany
  • End Date:
    20190831
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    urn:sha-512:a3ba28763d3e13fbcfec882a4738215e481d6fe71aba94fb0a51088122b0f0c21c0c41646be6a08f7c7b42d22e356161c0c583b18e15f3b0541b2641e9458117
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