Development and Metrological Characterization of a Multi-sensor Device for Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) monitoring

Arianna Astolfi, Alessio Carullo, Virginia Fissore, Giuseppina Emma Puglisi, Giuseppina Arcamone, Louena Shtrepi, Erica Raviola, Alberto Barbaro, Gustavo Ramirez Espinosa, Pietro Chiavassa, Edoardo Giusto, Gabriele Piccablotto, Fabio Saba, Davide Paesante, Giovanni Durando, Alice Lorenzati, Stefano Fantucci, Antonio Servetti, Bartolomeo Montrucchio, Franco FioriAnna Pellegrino, Vincenzo Corrado, Simona Paduos, Nicolas Sassoli, Jana Clerici

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Abstract

Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), which affects people's health, comfort, well-being and productivity, combines thermal, visual, acoustic and air quality conditions. This work deals with design, development and metrological characterization of a low-cost multi-sensor device that is able to detect the quality conditions of indoor environments for IEQ purposes. The device, hereafter referred as PROMET&O (PROactive Monitoring for indoor EnvironmenTal quality & cOmfort) embeds a set of low-cost sensors that measure air temperature and relative humidity, illuminance, sound pressure level, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, particulate matter, formaldehyde, and nitrogen dioxide. The basic architecture of the device is described and the design criteria that are related to the measurement requirements are highlighted. Particular attention has been paid towards the traceability assurance of the measurements provided by PROMET&O by means of specifically conceived calibration procedures, which have been tailored to the requirements of each measurement quantity. The calibration is based on the comparison to reference standards following commonly employed or ad-hoc developed technical procedures. The defined calibration procedures can be applied both for the single sensors and for the set of sensors integrated in the multi-sensor case. For the latter, the effects of the percentage of permeable case surface and the sensors allocation are also investigated. A preliminary uncertainty evaluation of the proposed multi-sensor device is reported for the carbon dioxide and the illuminance sensors taking the defined calibration procedures into account.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2023 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Living Environment (MetroLivEnv)
Pages179 - 184
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 29 May 2023

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