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).

Iā€™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 indicatorsā€¦?
I wrote about this on https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/Mutichannel_Gas_Sensor/issues/8

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

Iā€™ve never used that particular device, so I donā€™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 donā€™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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