Citizen science in action!

This kit contains all you need to set up your own online air quality monitoring unit. This records the PM2.5 and PM10 particulate data, along with temperature and humidity. This is sent (via your Wi-Fi connection) to the sensor.community platform, which can be viewed here: https://sensor.community/en/.

In building and installing this equipment you are helping monitor local and global air quality and provide results to a growing network of citizen science sensor units.

The unit uses the SDS011 dust and particulate sensor, along with a BME280 temperature and humidity sensor. These are interfaced with an ESP8266 Wi-Fi enabled microcontroller on the NodeMCU.

The main option is for a full kit of parts, including a UK plug USB power supply.

No programming is required! The units are pre-programmed with the airRohr sensor firmware and should not need any additional programming. An online account activation is required, though.

Additional PCB connections can be made to add more sensors in the future, if you would like to expand it further.

This kit and enclosure design was built to help my local community monitor their local air quality. I love the work that airRohr / sensor.community have been doing & wanted to make it slightly quicker and easier to get started. This kit contains all the enclosure and mountings to get you running quickly.

Please note:

• This kit contains all hardware required to set up your sensor unit.
• This kit contains a UK 240V ac to USB converter - other countries will need to supply their own.
• You will need a local wifi connection.
• You will need to install in a location which can connect to that network.
• This kit requires soldering, some hardware construction and setting up an online sensor.community account and sensor node.
• This should take in the region of 2-4 hours to build.
• This kit relies upon the sensor.community platform. Curious Electric use their firmware and do not have any input to the software side of the project.

The design files for the PCB and the hardware, along with the instructions, are available in the project github repository here:

https://github.com/curiouselectric/airQualitySensor_airrohr