Hello everyone, first of all I’d like to thank the community, since you have a great project going here.
Some colleagues and myself recently published a paper in Atmospheric Pollution Research that made use of the Sensor.Community data (as well as data from OpenAQ).
It is mostly an overview of the coverage of low-cost sensors for air quality and advocates for how these sensor networks can complement the official sensors. I have seen in the forum that there is the constant battle for these “community based” measurements to be taken seriously, so hopefully this can help takes steps in the right direction.
I am quite keen to do more in-depth analysis of the data, and am excited to see that there is a lot of technically-minded people in the community! Hope you find this paper somewhat interesting.
Thanks! I think on the academic side there is plenty of interest in low-cost sensors as well as community monitoring more generally.
As for the regulation side, I think a big issue when it comes to official air quality levels, is that they are required to have legal weight, which makes official bodies hesitant to consider them on an equal footing. Personally, I am hoping that with enough evidence on advantages of density of coverage as well as the high temporal resolution, even if comunitiy monitors do not get to be regarded as equally “correct“, they can at least be seen as valuable to understand other aspects of air quality beyond simply the concentrantion levels, etc., and for citizents to be able to advocate for their communities.