International training course:

Networked Environmental Monitoring
– from sensor principles to novel services
in cooperation with Aarhus University, Aristotle University Thessaloniki and AMA Association for Sensors and Measurement.February 21-23, 2017, Copenhagen

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Complete program

Day 1 – Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017

11:00 optional visit to Air Quality monitoring station at H.C. Andersen’s Boulevard operated by Department of Environmental Science, AU

13:00 Welcome, introduction and goal of the seminar,
O. Hertel, A. Schütze, K. Karatzas

• Environmental monitoring today and tomorrow
• Smart and green cities: how and why?
• Overview and goal of the seminar

13:30 Introduction to air pollution, O. Hertel

• Pollutants: gases and particles
• Atmospheric chemistry
• Health effects and external costs of Air Pollution
• Atmospheric particles – physical and chemical properties, sources and sinks
• Integrated monitoring and assessment

14:30 – 15:00 coffee break

15:00 Air pollution meteorology, O. Hertel

• Turbulence
• Atmospheric Stability
• Mixing height
• Impact on dispersion and transport

16:30 – 17:00 coffee break

17:00 Application example: AQ monitoring around Heathrow airport, R. Jones, U Cambridge

• Background and motivation
• Sensor nodes and installation
• Data processing and in-network calibration
• Results and lessons learned
• Presentations (EuNetAir meeting Rome, Dec. 2012; EuNetAir meeting Istanbul Dec. 2014)

End approx. 18:00

19:00 dinner and get-together: Restaurant Nimb (in amusement park Tivoli)

Day 2 – Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017

9:00 Gas sensor function principles, A. Schütze

• IR absorption
• Electrochemical cells
• Semiconductor gas sensors (metal oxide and conducting polymer sensors)
• Field effect devices
• Mass sensitive devices (bulk and surface acoustic wave)
• Examples from nanotechnology and materials development

10:00 Gas sensor characterization and calibration, A. Schütze

• The 3S: Sensitivity, Selectivity and Stability
• Influence of ambient conditions
• Sensor drift, aging and poisoning
• Gas mixing systems and field calibration

10:30 – 11:00 coffee break

11:00 Microsensor developments for particulate matter, A. Massling, ENVS, AU

• Physical parameters of particulate matter with health relevance (Particle number, Ultrafine Particle number, Particle Mass, Particle surface area)
• Current knowledge on health relevance of these parameters
• Newest developments of miniature versions of particle sensors
• Expected future needs and importance of such developments

12:00 Sensor network deployment, A. Schütze

• Fixed monitoring stations
• Mobile monitoring stations (on trams, buses, cars)
• Personal mobile monitoring systems
• Sensors on drones

Lunch break (approx. 12.30 – 13.30)

13:30 Multi-sensor systems (aka „electronic noses“), A. Schütze

• Motivation for multi-sensor systems
• Basic concepts and typical solutions
• Advantages and drawbacks of multi-sensor systems
• „Virtual multi-sensors“: obtaining multi-dimensional data from a single sensor element
• Multi-sensor signal processing and data fusion
• Application examples: quantitative ozone measurement, odour assessment

15:00 – 15:30 coffee break

15:30 Application example: Outdoor odour nuisance monitoring, W. Reimringer, 3S

• Background and motivation
• Sensor nodes
• Sensor installation
• Citizen network as odour reference
• Results and lessons learned

16:15 Gas sensors in your smartphone: potential applications, A. Schütze, K. Karatzas

• Gas sensor technologies for integration in smartphones
• Breath alcohol monitoring
• Indoor Air Quality (tVOC)
• Personal fire alarm
• Further application potential and service deployment

18:30 – 21:00 finger food dinner and hands-on examples for low-cost sensor platforms
Dinner speech: Infrastructure for successful AQ networks: R&D requirements in the next 5 years, J. Saffell, AlphaSense

Day 3 – Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017

9:00 Air pollution modelling, O. Hertel, K. Karatzas

• Plume models, urban scale and CFD
• Street pollution modelling and human exposure assessment
• Hot spots, indoor and outdoor exposure patterns
• Examples of refined AQ level estimation based on data fusion and AQ modelling
• Regional scale to long-range transport air pollution modelling – processes, methodologies, examples

10:15 – 10:45 coffee break

10:45 Data‐oriented analysis and modelling for air quality control, K. Karatzas

• Introduction to data analysis (descriptive statistics, trend analysis)
• Multivariate correlation analysis
• Periodicity identification based on FFT
• Computational intelligence methods (Artificial Neural Networks for modelling, Self Organizing Maps for data investigations and profiling)
• Examples of sensor data analysis (the Aveiro experiment, mobile phone sensor data analysis)

11:30 From AQ data to personalized Quality of Life information services, K. Karatzas

• Using low-cost monitoring networks for personalized information
• Design principles of EI services for mobile devices
• Examples for Quality-of-Life services: green routes through cities
• Synergies with personal health monitoring sensors
• The business perspective

12:30 – 13:00 coffee break

13:00 Application example: CPH sense: sensing for smart cities, V. Venkatraman, Leapcraft

• Air quality and its impact on both health and quality of life
• AQ services for both governmental and private stakeholders
• Fully managed IOT cloud service in real time
• Focus: extract insights, provide real-time alerts, recognise patters

13:45 Wrap-up and final remarks

• Future trends
• Next steps

14:00 end of the seminar

Download: Additional material

• selected publications
• data sheets

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