AQESHOW - Abstract

Abstract Information :

This study has the objective of assessing the suitability of mobile network infrastructure to host, power, connect, and scale air quality sensor networks for outdoor air quality monitoring. As current monitoring services often lack granularity, consistency, or comparability, a mobile network can in fact offer the infrastructure to create a global sensing platform that can measure air quality at high granularity in space and time, in a cross-border / global fashion and in a cost-effective way. This can empower governments and citizens to measure for action, not compliance, to separate local versus regional emissions, to decrease air quality models’ uncertainties, and to increase the accuracy of CO2 inventories. During the first phase of this study, the outcome of which was presented at AQE 2022, 10 air quality sensors from different sensor manufacturers have been mounted on a base station in Glasgow and initial findings suggested that network infrastructure offers a suitable platform for hosting sensors. During this 2024 edition of AQE, the results from the second phase of this study will be presented, during which a network of air quality monitors hosted on telecom infrastructure has been deployed at larger scale in the city of Glasgow.