Urban Air Quality Monitoring with Networked Low-Cost Sensor-Systems
Michele Penza,
Domenico Suriano,
Valerio Pfister,
Mario Prato,
Gennaro Cassano
Affiliations
Michele Penza
ENEA—Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Lab. Functional Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Applications, Brindisi Research Center, I-72100 Brindisi, Italy
Domenico Suriano
ENEA—Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Lab. Functional Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Applications, Brindisi Research Center, I-72100 Brindisi, Italy
Valerio Pfister
ENEA—Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Lab. Functional Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Applications, Brindisi Research Center, I-72100 Brindisi, Italy
Mario Prato
ENEA—Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Lab. Functional Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Applications, Brindisi Research Center, I-72100 Brindisi, Italy
Gennaro Cassano
ENEA—Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Lab. Functional Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Applications, Brindisi Research Center, I-72100 Brindisi, Italy
A sensors network based on 11 nodes (10 stationary and 1 mobile mounted on public bus) distributed in Bari (Italy) has been deployed for urban air quality (AQ) monitoring. The low-cost sensor-systems have been installed in specific sites (buildings, offices, schools, streets, port, airport) to enhance environmental awareness of the citizens and to supplement the expensive official air monitoring stations with cost-effective sensor-nodes at high spatial and temporal resolution. Continuous measurements were performed by low-cost electrochemical gas sensors (CO, NO2, O3, SO2), optical particle counter (PM1.0, PM2.5, PM10), NDIR infrared sensor (CO2), photo-ionisation detector (total VOCs), including microsensors for temperature and relative humidity. The sensors are running to assess the performance during a campaign (June 2015–December 2017) of several months for citizen science in sustainable smart cities. The air quality index (AQI) for a given pollutant has been measured and compared to the public reference environmental data. The results of the AQ monitoring long-term campaign for selected sensor-nodes are presented.
