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1. Wireless distributed environmental sensor networks for air pollution measurement-the promise and the current reality

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Broday, David M., Arpaci, Alexander, Bartonova, Alena, Castell-Balaguer, Nuría, Cole-Hunter, Tom, Dauge, Franck R., Fishbain, Barak, Jones, Rod L., Galea, Karen, Jovasevic-Stojanovic, Milena, Kocman, David, Martinez-Iñiguez, Tania, Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark, Robinson, Johanna, Svecova, Vlasta, and Thai, Phong

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in situ field calibration, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, air pollution, Air pollution, 010501 environmental sciences, medicine.disease_cause, lcsh:Chemical technology, 01 natural sciences, Biochemistry, Article, wireless distributed environmental sensor networks, micro sensing units, spatiotemporal variability, multi-sensor nodes, Analytical Chemistry, 11. Sustainability, medicine, Wireless, lcsh:TP1-1185, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Instrumentation, Air quality index, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Remote sensing, Pollutant, Air pollutant concentrations, Data stream mining, business.industry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 13. Climate action, Software deployment, Environmental science, Spatial variability, business
Abstract

The evaluation of the effects of air pollution on public health and human-wellbeing requires reliable data. Standard air quality monitoring stations provide accurate measurements of airborne pollutant levels, but, due to their sparse distribution, they cannot capture accurately the spatial variability of air pollutant concentrations within cities. Dedicated in-depth field campaigns have dense spatial coverage of the measurements but are held for relatively short time periods. Hence, their representativeness is limited. Moreover, the oftentimes integrated measurements represent time-averaged records. Recent advances in communication and sensor technologies enable the deployment of dense grids of Wireless Distributed Environmental Sensor Networks for air quality monitoring, yet their capability to capture urban-scale spatiotemporal pollutant patterns has not been thoroughly examined to date. Here, we summarize our studies on the practicalities of using data streams from sensor nodes for air quality measurement and the required methods to tune the results to different stakeholders and applications. We summarize the results from eight cities across Europe, five sensor technologies-three stationary (with one tested also while moving) and two personal sensor platforms, and eight ambient pollutants. Overall, few sensors showed an exceptional and consistent performance, which can shed light on the fine spatiotemporal urban variability of pollutant concentrations. Stationary sensor nodes were more reliable than personal nodes. In general, the sensor measurements tend to suffer from the interference of various environmental factors and require frequent calibrations. This calls for the development of suitable field calibration procedures, and several such in situ field calibrations are presented.

Published
2017

2. INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF AMBIENT PARTICULATE MATTER -- INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE AND CURRENT RESEARCH IN SERB.

Author

BARTONOVA, ALENA and JOVASEVIC-STOJANOVIC, MILENA

Subjects
*PARTICULATE matter, *AIR pollution, *CONFERENCES & conventions, *AIR quality monitoring, *ATMOSPHERIC models
Abstract

Air pollution mitigation is a necessity in Serbia, due to its high levels of criteria pollutants in ambient environment. Successful implementation of mitigation measures requires access to sufficient information from national research, and well running and efficient local participatory processes. To support air pollution mitigation in the West Balkan region, the WeBIOPATR project started a series of bi-annual conferences in 2007. They bring together an inter-disciplinary research community and local and national administrations from Serbia and its neighbourhood, to present research results from Serbia and countries all over the world, and to share knowledge and best practices of mitigation. The conferences promote research that may support integrated assessment of particulate matter, and further refinement of the "Pressures-State-Impact" (PSI) part of the "Drivers-Pressures-State-Impact-Response" (DPSIR) framework. Integrated approach needs to be underpinned by solid disciplinary research covering, e.g., air quality monitoring technologies, atmospheric and further ambient composition, atmospheric modelling, biological effects and human health. WeBIOPATR conferences report on recently performed studies of particulate matter in Serbia and abroad. Through the breadth of subjects and audience, they bring together a wide inter-disciplinary and cross-sectoral expertise in support of translation of research to practice. They also allow to present examples of successful mitigation achieved with the help of strong local participatory environmental governance, demonstrating the increasing recognition of the need to involve both public and private actors. This paper gives the main features of a full chain approach and elements of integrated approach to particulate matter research, summarizes the proceedings of the 3rd WeBIOPATR conference, and in addition, reviews the results of particulate matter monitoring and source identification studies in Serbia since the monitoring start ten years ago. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2012
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