Development of a low-cost outdoor carbon monoxyde analyser applied to the city of Oran, Algeria

Abstract

In Algeria, the alternative to the absence of these air pollution measurement networks can come from the recent development of electrochemical sensor technologies for air quality monitoring which arouses a certain interest because of their miniaturization, low energy consumption and low cost.

We developed a low-cost outdoor carbon monoxide analyzer called APOMOS (Air pollution Monitoring System) based on electrochemical sensor managed by microcontroller. In order to validate the APOMOS system, the recorded measurements are compared with measurements taken by a conventional analyzer.

Comparison of the measurements resulting from conventional analyzer and those resulting from the APOMOS system gives a coefficient of determination of 98.39 %.