Location Impact on Particulate Matter (PM) Concentration Reduction Dduring COVID-19 Pandemic
Date Issued
2022-06
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Abstract
—Significant topic of interest in many European
countries is monitoring the air pollution, especially particulate
matter (PM) concentrations, mostly because of its harmful effects
on the human health. Measurement of the particulate matter
concentrations can be done in a different ways, one of the possible
solutions is by using low-cost and energy-efficient monitoring
system using sensor network. The main goal of this paper
is to analyze the influence of the green areas on particulate
matter mitigation, analyzing the period of pandemic COVID-19
restrictions. The paper analyze the connection among the impact
of the location of the sensor nodes and green areas and other
objects to the particulate matter concentrations using various
statistical tools and hypothesis testing. The tests are based on
the data collected during summer 2020 at the technical campus
of the Ss Cyril and Methodius University. This is the period
when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID
19 pandemic, and the universities were closed. In this research it
can be confirmed that green areas at the Faculty pacio, reduced
traffic vehicles and not having presence of the faculty staff in
this period have a high impact in the reduction of particulate
matter.
countries is monitoring the air pollution, especially particulate
matter (PM) concentrations, mostly because of its harmful effects
on the human health. Measurement of the particulate matter
concentrations can be done in a different ways, one of the possible
solutions is by using low-cost and energy-efficient monitoring
system using sensor network. The main goal of this paper
is to analyze the influence of the green areas on particulate
matter mitigation, analyzing the period of pandemic COVID-19
restrictions. The paper analyze the connection among the impact
of the location of the sensor nodes and green areas and other
objects to the particulate matter concentrations using various
statistical tools and hypothesis testing. The tests are based on
the data collected during summer 2020 at the technical campus
of the Ss Cyril and Methodius University. This is the period
when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID
19 pandemic, and the universities were closed. In this research it
can be confirmed that green areas at the Faculty pacio, reduced
traffic vehicles and not having presence of the faculty staff in
this period have a high impact in the reduction of particulate
matter.
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