Enabling Citizen Science with A Crowdfunded and Field Validated Smart Air Quality Monitor

This work report the preliminary results of crowdfunding/crowdsensing campaign run in Italy aimed to functional test of a smart air quality monitoring infrastructure. Design and implementation of the cooperative monitoring infrastructure are described along with details of crowdfunding campaign. Participating users received, for a whole month, a field validated electrochemical sensors based air quality monitoring node and a companion APP capable of reporting sophisticated concentration estimations. Calibration functions are actually based on machine learning components correcting for environmental and non target gas interferences. Data gathered in the cloud allowed for evaluation of acceptability and reliability of the node as well as for mapping concentrations measurements inside city landscape through an ad-hoc GUI