A review of low-cost particulate matter sensors from the developers' perspectives

B Alfano, L Barretta, A Del Giudice, S De Vito… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
The concerns related to particulate matter's health effects alongside the increasing demands
from citizens for more participatory, timely, and diffused air quality monitoring actions have …

Performance evaluation of low-cost air quality sensors: A review

Y Kang, L Aye, TD Ngo, J Zhou - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The monitoring of air quality compliance requires the use of Federal Reference Methods
(FRM)/Federal Equivalent Methods (FEM); nevertheless, the validity and reliability of low …

From low-cost sensors to high-quality data: A summary of challenges and best practices for effectively calibrating low-cost particulate matter mass sensors

MR Giordano, C Malings, SN Pandis, AA Presto… - Journal of Aerosol …, 2021 - Elsevier
Low-cost sensors for particulate matter mass (PM) enable spatially dense, high temporal
resolution measurements of air quality that traditional reference monitoring cannot. Low-cost …

[HTML][HTML] Development and application of a United States-wide correction for PM data collected with the PurpleAir sensor

KK Barkjohn, B Gantt… - Atmospheric Measurement …, 2021 - amt.copernicus.org
PurpleAir sensors, which measure particulate matter (PM), are widely used by individuals,
community groups, and other organizations including state and local air monitoring …

Wildfire smoke impacts on indoor air quality assessed using crowdsourced data in California

Y Liang, D Sengupta, MJ Campmier… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Wildfires have become an important source of particulate matter (PM2. 5< 2.5-µm diameter),
leading to unhealthy air quality index occurrences in the western United States. Since …

Performance evaluation of twelve low-cost PM2. 5 sensors at an ambient air monitoring site

B Feenstra, V Papapostolou, S Hasheminassab… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - Elsevier
A variety of low-cost sensors are now available on the consumer market for measuring air
pollutants. The use of these low-cost sensors for ambient air monitoring applications is …

Long-term field comparison of multiple low-cost particulate matter sensors in an outdoor urban environment

FMJ Bulot, SJ Johnston, PJ Basford, NHC Easton… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM) air pollution is a leading risk factor for morbidity
and mortality, associated with up to 8.9 million deaths/year worldwide. Measurement of …

Low-cost sensors as an alternative for long-term air quality monitoring

X Liu, R Jayaratne, P Thai, T Kuhn, I Zing… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Low-cost air quality sensors are increasingly being used in many applications; however,
many of their performance characteristics have not been adequately investigated. This study …

Calibration of low-cost PurpleAir outdoor monitors using an improved method of calculating PM2. 5

L Wallace, J Bi, WR Ott, J Sarnat, Y Liu - Atmospheric Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
PM 2.5 hourly average measurements from 33 outdoor PurpleAir particle monitors were
compared with hourly measurements from 27 nearby US EPA Air Quality System (AQS) …

Size-resolved field performance of low-cost sensors for particulate matter air pollution

E Molina Rueda, E Carter, C L'Orange… - … & Technology Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Particulate matter (PM) air pollution is a major health hazard. The health effects of PM are
closely linked to particle size, which governs its deposition in (and penetration through) the …