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Campus Air Quality Monitoring Station and Web Dashboard

Project Description

This project proposes using funds for setting up one monitoring system for Air Quality for streaming live data through an open access web dashboard accessible to all campus community members. The monitoring system would offer a robust and easy-to-use air quality monitoring system that can deliver localized real-time readings, improving the accuracy and scope of gathering air quality data to support initiatives to reduce air pollution and its risk to human health. For this project a portable sensor station which includes multiple small-sensor air quality monitors for air quality is proposed. This measuring standard offers near real-time localized air quality information and data analysis. 

This project aims to measure key pollutants in ambient air using the smalls sensor technology combined with data processing derived from extensive global comparisons with reference data. Some of the parameters to be measured and reported include:

- Gases including NO, NO2, NOx, O3, CO, SO2, CO2, and H2S using the latest generation of electrochemical sensors

-Particulates PM1, PM2.5, PM10, and TPC with a light-scattering optical particle counter

-Relative humidity, pod temperature, atmospheric pressure and noise

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Funding Details

Student Campus Environment Fee (SCEF) - 303692
Fiscal Year Status Amount Date Operations
2021 Allocated $9,752.50 5/14/2021 Edit | Delete

SSC Basic Info

Year Started: 2021
Semester: Spring
Status: Closed
Student Led? No
Project Category: Land, Air, and Water

SSC Project Team

Project Lead:

Moazam Iqbal Hakim (mihakim2@illinois.edu)

Financial Advisor:

Margaret Grace Kiener (kiener2@illinois.edu)

Project Advisor:

Brian Deal (deal@illinois.edu)

Team Members:

  • Moazam Iqbal Hakim

Illinois Green Fund - Student Sustainability Committee