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Low-cost embedded systems for community-driven ambient air quality monitoring

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dc.contributor.authorWendt, Eric, author
dc.contributor.authorVolckens, John, advisor
dc.contributor.authorPierce, Jeffrey, committee member
dc.contributor.authorJathar, Shantanu, committee member
dc.contributor.authorPasricha, Sudeep, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-29T10:17:17Z
dc.date.available2023-08-22T10:17:17Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractFine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution is a leading cause of death, disease and environmental degradation worldwide. Existing PM2.5 measurement infrastructure provides broad PM2.5 sampling coverage, but due to high costs (>10,000 USD), these instruments are rarely broadly distributed at community-level scales. Low-cost sensors can be more practically deployed in spatial and temporal configurations that can fill the gaps left by more expensive monitors. Crowdsourcing low-cost sensors is a promising deployment strategy in which sensors are operated by interested community members. Prior work has demonstrated the potential of crowdsourced networks, but low-cost sensor technology remains ripe for improvement. Here we describe a body of work aimed toward bolstering the future of community-driven air quality monitoring through technological innovation. We first detail the development of the Aerosol Mass and Optical Depth (AMODv2) sampler, a low-cost monitor capable of unsupervised measurement of PM2.5 mass concentration and Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD), a measure of light extinction in the full atmospheric column due to airborne particles. We highlight key design features of the AMODv2 and demonstrate that its measurements are accurate relative to standard reference monitors. Second we describe a national crowdsourced network of AMODv2s, in which we leveraged the measurement capabilities of the AMODv2 in a network of university students to analyze the relationship between PM2.5 and AOD in the presence of wildfire smoke in the United States. Finally, we propose a cloud screening algorithm for AOD measurements using all-sky images and deep transfer learning. We found that our algorithm correctly screens over 95% of all-sky images for cloud contamination from a custom all-sky image data set. Taken as a whole, our work supports community-driven air pollution monitoring by advancing the tools and strategies communities need to better understand the air they breathe.
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dc.format.mediumdoctoral dissertations
dc.identifierWendt_colostate_0053A_17338.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/235714
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
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dc.subjectcitizen science
dc.subjectembedded systems
dc.subjectmechatronics
dc.subjectcomputer vision
dc.subjectair pollution
dc.subjectmachine learning
dc.titleLow-cost embedded systems for community-driven ambient air quality monitoring
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thesis.degree.disciplineMechanical Engineering
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

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