The importance of indoor air has come into the spotlight in recent years with attempts being made to address the challenges surrounding indoor air quality (IAQ). In order to legislate IAQ, compliance monitoring guidelines and frameworks are needed to support regulation. Current compliance monitors are expensive and complex, and it is not feasible to install them in every indoor space; however, the emergence of PM2.5 low-cost sensors (LCS) provide an avenue for IAQ compliance monitoring. As PM2.5 LCS’ mature, there has been a significant development into our understanding of these sensing technologies which has enabled us to improve their data. However, a significant proportion of this learning is within an ambient setting, not indoors.
A new paper has been published by our Centre Director Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska, Dr Christof Asbach of the Technology & Analytics (IUTA), Institute of Environment & Energy, Duisburg, Germany, and our partner Dr Hamesh Patel of Mote New Zealand.
The paper titled, “Application of PM2.5 low-cost sensors for indoor air quality compliance monitoring”, published in Aerosol Science and Technology. aims to provide a framework to use PM2.5Â LCS for compliance monitoring of indoor air.Â
