OScH - Environmental Sensing and Community Science

@nanocastro thats a nice find! This is also cool (on the same site) http://www.hackair.eu/hackair-cardboard/ because everything is better with cardboard. This uses:
A clean, dry, empty drinks carton (e.g. Tetrapak)
Some petroleum jelly (e.g. Vaseline)
Some household string
Some tape
A counter weight (e.g. a battery, coin, paper clips)
A macro lens for your smartphone

After putting out the Vaseline coated cardboard for 24 hours and then take a picture which s uploaded to their app.

Looks like a good primary science experiment.

Cheers,
Brian

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Hi, @gbathree
I started working (test-regime) with the sensor (Grove - Multichannel Gas Sensor MiCS-6814) and added it to the project ā€œTernopil Air Quality Monitorā€ (http://ecocentr.com.ua/ternopil-air-quality-monitor/ or https://thingspeak.com/channels/507656).

I’m not sure that he is working fairly. Rather, it shows a tendency. I will try calibration. But, interestingly, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide are negatively correlated. I think why the increase in nitrogen dioxide leads to a decrease in all other indicators…?
I wrote about this on https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/Mutichannel_Gas_Sensor/issues/8

That’s a cool website, and thingspeak also seems quite nice. We should check that out for continuous data types like temp sensors and related.

I’ve never used that particular device, so I don’t have a lot of input there.

@gbathree @nanocastro
I see (Multichannel Gas Sensor MiCS-6814) NO2 depend on humidity.
Is it a problem with the precision low-cost sensor?

Hi Andriy
Temperature and humidity interfere with the response of metal oxide sensors as MICS. You can check this references (1, 2)
They don’t use the same MICS models but I think the interference problems remain. They use a multivariate linear regression or machine learning with data from high-cost/reference stations to calibrate the sensors in the field. We are now trying to do something like that (co-location with a reference stations)
Hope it helps.

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