International Consortium develops low cost nanosensors for real-time air quality monitoring

The international consortium of the NanosenAQM project, which is developing and validating low-cost, low-power nanosensors to measure air quality and provide real-time data in urban and rural areas, will meet at the University of Coimbra (Palácio dos Melos) on 10 and 11 October.

The project is coordinated by ITEFI-CSIC, Spain, and has received €1.5 million in funding from the Interreg Sudoe programme.

The consortium includes 11 partners from Portugal, Spain and France, including a research team from the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC), led by Bernardete Ribeiro, professor and researcher at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the UC.

According to Bernardete Ribeiro, "by developing low-cost gas nanosensors to measure air quality and provide real-time data, the Nanosen-AQM project will contribute to massive, distributed and ubiquitous air quality monitoring".

At this meeting, the various partners will present the results obtained so far, as well as the methods developed for processing the data collected in real time, in order to inform and raise awareness of the problem of air quality.

^{Translation by Diana Taborda}