July 16, 2019
9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Over the past several years, miniaturized, lower-cost air monitoring sensors have become available in the market and are now being used by researchers, industry, state and local government agencies, and the general public for applications such as:
- Real-time, high-resolution mapping of ambient air quality using sensor networks that have far greater density than the network of regulatory monitors.
- Real-time public communication of air quality including the effects of air pollution events such as wildfires.
- Fenceline monitoring to detect emission events.
- Mobile and stationary community monitoring to identify hotspots.
- Personal monitoring.
- Data collection in remote places.
AIR SENSORS 2019: EPA's Second Workshop on Deliberating Performance Targets for Air Quality Sensors (July 16)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold a workshop on July 16, 2019 with the objective of providing a forum for individual stakeholder views related to non-regulatory performance targets for sensors that measure carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters of 10 micrometers and smaller (PM10), and sulfur dioxide (SO2) in the United States. Through the workshop's on-site and webinar discussions, national and international participants from academia, government, and manufacturers, along with sensor users will address a range of technical issues involved in establishing performance targets for air sensor technologies. Workshop topics will include:
- Update of EPA's activities and a summary of the literature and information review conducted since the 2018 "Deliberating Performance Targets for Air Quality Sensors" workshop.
- Stakeholder discussion of their needs regarding air quality monitoring and examples of air sensor deployments and the related data quality objectives (DQOs).
- Expert discussion of research and applications of CO, NO2, PM10, and SO2 air sensors and the related DQOs.
Email the Air Sensors Workshop Team with any questions.