How AI is making affordable air pollution sensors more accurate

By Jean-Christophe Nebel, Professor of Computer Science, Kingston University
Farzana Rahman, Senior Lecturer, MSc Data Science Course Leader, Kingston University

Clean air is a fundamental right. However, every day, 100 children under the age of five tragically lose their lives in east Asia and the Pacific due to a silent killer – air pollution.

In response to this crisis, huge investments have been made in outdoor air pollution monitoring systems. These fridge-sized monitoring stations are expensive costing at least £10,000 each, so scaling this up everywhere isn’t…

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