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- Research
- Personal Exposure Monitoring
- Supplementing Existing Monitoring
- Source Identification and Characterization
- Education
- Information/Awareness
- Traditional
- Expensive instruments
- Specialized training required
- Large physical footprint
- Large power draw
- Low Cost
- Stationary / Mobile
- Public demand
- More personalized information
- Experimental
- Do It Yourself
- Education/Outreach
- Low Cost
- Measurements
Desirable Direction
- Lower Cost Systems
- Higher Spatial Resolution
- Stationary Mode
- Source Fence line
- Community measurements
- e.g.
- Multipollutant sensor stations in near road
- Community setting
- Mobile Mode
- Personal monitoring
- Community group monitoring
- Mapping spatial trends
- Education Outreach
- EPA ORD’s particle sensor kit
- Instrumented kits measuring VOCs
- Hacking fiber optic flowers to light up based on CO2 sensor readings (EPA ORD)
- Reliability of the manufacturing
- Many are produced in batches
- Data communications
- Ease of operation
- Power draw
- Lifetime of sensor
- Some likely to fail within 1 year
- Basics
- Purpose
- Government - School - Company Sandbox Learning Project
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- Number of Pollutants
- Purpose
- Monitor
- What sensor?
- How often data collected?
- Calibration
- Certified Entity
- Collocation
- Additional data?
- Noise
- Temperature
- Location
- Where?
- Moving /Stationary
- Indoor / Outdoor
- Other Sources
- Industry
- Construction
- Wheather Conditions
- Where?
- Data Analysis
The US EPA has focused a majority of its attention on sensors costing < $2,500.00 as it is believed such a cost would be at the upper limit to that which citizen scientists, as well as many others might be able to afford.