THERMAL SCIENCE

International Scientific Journal

Viša Tasić

,

Aca V. Božilov

,

Nikola Mišić

,

Dušan Topalović

,

Ivana Ranđelović

,

Nikola S. Mirkov

,

Vladan Kamenović

A PORTABLE AIR QUALITY MONITOR BASED ON LOW-COST SENSORS

ABSTRACT
National systems of automatic air quality monitoring are based on automatic measuring instruments that are installed in stationary air quality monitoring stations. Substantial financial resources are required for the procurement, installation, calibration, and maintenance of such measuring devices. For this reason, existing national and local air quality monitoring networks are not able to provide a high temporal and spatial resolution of measurement results. In the last decade, as a possible alternative to the conventional approach to air quality monitoring, real-time monitoring systems using low-cost sensors and sensor plat-forms have begun to be applied. This paper describes the basic characteristics of a portable air quality monitor PAQMAN 2020 based on low-cost sensors. Part of the results of comparative measurements of this device with the reference instruments is presented in the paper.
KEYWORDS
air quality, monitoring, Low-cost, particulate matter, Carbon25monoxide, Sensors
PAPER SUBMITTED: 2022-02-18
PAPER REVISED: 1970-01-01
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2023-01-20
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2023-05-13
DOI REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI220118107T
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THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR 2023, VOLUME 27, ISSUE Issue 3, PAGES [2309 - 2319]
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