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Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems

Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems, Volume 25

Optimization and Evaluation of Calibration for Low-cost Air Quality Sensors: Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning Models

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15439/2021F95

Citation: Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems, M. Ganzha, L. Maciaszek, M. Paprzycki, D. Ślęzak (eds). ACSIS, Vol. 25, pages 255–258 ()

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Abstract. In this paper, data from five air monitoring stations in Sofia were compared to data from fixed low-cost PM sensors. A two-step model was created to refine the calibration process for low-cost PM sensors. At first, we calibrated the sensors with five separate supervised machine learning models and then the ANN-final model with anomaly detection completed the results. The ANN-final model improved the R2 values of the PM10 determined by low-cost sensors from 0.62 to 0.95 as compared to normal instruments. In conclusion, the two-step calibration model proved to be a positive solution to addressing low-cost sensor efficiency issues.

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