ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Using Low-Cost PM Monitors to Detect Local Changes of Air Quality
1 1 | Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Building Services, Hydro and Environmental Engineering,
Warsaw, Poland |
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Submission date: 2017-06-19
Final revision date: 2017-09-11
Acceptance date: 2017-09-18
Online publication date: 2018-03-07
Publication date: 2018-03-30
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2018;27(4):1699–1705
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ABSTRACT
Air pollution has a negative impact on human health. To care for air in Poland and around the world
its quality is monitored. Thus, it is possible to develop appropriate plans for improving air quality in
certain areas. Unfortunately, the number of traditional, professional, and stationary devices is usually
insufficient. This article presents the concept of using low-cost PM measuring devices to increase the
spatiotemporal resolution of air quality measurements supplementing the network of reference devices.
The example of Nowy Sącz shows the use of such devices for the detection of urban areas with locally
increased values of pollutants originating from low-level emissions. For this purpose, it has been used
and compares data regarding the concentration of PM10 from low-cost devices with data from the
referential station. To detect local “hot-spots” it has also applied wind speed measurements. This article
shows that local PM hot-spots can be detected – especially on days with low wind speeds.
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