Sensor.Community
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What: Measuring particulate matter
Where: Throughout Europe
Sign up: Buy a sensor and join via Find your sensor and building instructions for your DYI fine dust sensor
General information
Sensor.community is one of the largest and fastest growing citizen science communities. Before November 2019, Sensor.Community was known as Luftdaten. This international platform shows all kinds of measurements, for example particulate matter, noise and temperature. You can also find data from different communities. Anyone in the Netherlands and Flanders can also add their own community via GitHub. This allows communities in different countries to find each other. RIVM and VMM also open up the (open) measurement data of participants from the Netherlands and Flanders on their data portal ( Netherlands , Flanders ).
Origin
Sensor.community with Luftdaten has its origins in Germany. The Open Knowledge Lab (OK Lab) in Stuttgart made a successful Citizen Science method that is easy to copy by groups of citizens in other places and countries. People are learning to build their own measuring device with sensors, for example to measure particulate matter in places where official authorities do not currently measure. The activities are now also being expanded to other sensor measurements, such as temperature, humidity and noise.
Great success
The Open Knowledge Lab once aimed at 300 measuring citizens in Stuttgart. We succeeded and much more than that! There are thousands of sensors active worldwide, many of which are in Germany. In the Netherlands and Belgium, more and more people are also connecting a particulate matter sensor to Luftdaten.info. Look for the current figures at https://stats.sensor.community/
Build your own particulate matter measuring device
The project website contains information about how you can build a sensor yourself from different parts. The information is also available in Dutch. One of the Dutch participants has created a blog with detailed explanations about his DIY activities.
Sensor.community data on the data portal of RIVM and VMM
Sensor.community makes the measurement data available as open data. The RIVM and VMM also show the data of Dutch and Flemish Luftdaten participants on their data portal ( Netherlands , Flanders ). The most commonly used sensor now is the Nova SDS011 sensor . These sensors are sensitive to moisture. At high humidity, the SDS011 often measures higher concentrations. See, for example, the document of 12 July 2018.
