Low-cost sensors can point to solutions for world's most polluted cities

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Dr. Kamruzzaman inspects an X-ray document of a baby who is suffering from respiratory disease at Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital in Dhaka in late 2019.

In many parts of the world, understanding what causes serious pollution and when it happens is unclear due to a lack of air quality monitoring. The solution, say experts, doesn’t need to be expensive and can lead to better public health policy.Dr. Kamruzzaman inspects an X-ray document of a baby who is suffering from respiratory disease at Dhaka Shishu Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in late 2019.

Experts say it highlights a need not just for pollution reduction measures — but for more affordable monitoring and measurement tools to figure out what's causing the problem in the first place. Optical: Shining lasers through particles and seeing how light behaves to determine amounts. The benefit here is that it's cheaper and real-time.

"The Environmental Protection Agency has tried to calibrate this instrumentation against the more gold standard measurements," Adetona explained. The EPA has developed methods to integrate the data from the low-cost sensors with that from the more expensive ones.

 

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