'The goal is for community groups or individual citizens anywhere to be able to measure local air pollution.'
As per an estimation by WHO, air pollution causes around 4 million annual premature deaths all over the globe. Considering this issue, an MIT research team launched an open-source version of an economical, mobile pollution detector through which individuals can track the air-quality more broadly.or by ordering cheap parts.
“Hopefully with the release of the open-source Flatburn we can get grassroots groups, as well as communities in less developed countries, to follow our approach and build and share knowledge,” said An Wang, a researcher at Senseable City Lab and another of the paper’s co-authors.dates back to around 2017 when the researchers of MIT started to prototype a mobile pollution detector, initially to be utilized on garbage trucks in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
These detectors are rechargeable and battery-powered, either from solar panels or power sources, with data stored on a card in the device, which is easily accessible from any remote location.Extending the current project, the researchers tested the devices inand the Boston Area to compare their performance with the already deployed working pollution detection systems. In New York, the researchers used five detectors, which helped them collect 1.
Duarte adds: “If you follow these procedures with low-cost sensors, you can still acquire good enough data to go back to [environmental] agencies with it and say, ‘Let’s talk.’”
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