Emerging Miniaturized Technologies for Airborne Particulate Matter Pervasive Monitoring

Marco Carminati, Giorgio Ferrari, Marco Sampietro

Abstract

In order to address the increasing demand for real-time and capillary monitoring of air quality and, in particular, of particulate matter (PM), novel solid-state sensor technologies and compact instrumentation for PM detection have been recently proposed. Within the context of smart cities and dense wireless sensor networks, we review miniaturized optical, mass-sensitive and capacitive approaches for detection of micrometric airborne dust, along with the new participatory and ubiquitous monitoring strategies enabled by the integration of these sensors with personal mobile devices such smartphones.

Keywords

air quality, dust, participatory sensing, high-resolution capacitance detection

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TC19 - Environmental Measurements

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