P27 - Air Quality (AQ) Sensors for Early Warning of Wildfires
- Event
- SMSI 2023
2023-05-08 - 2023-05-11
Nürnberg - Band
- Poster
- Chapter
- Poster
- Author(s)
- J. Stetter, M. Findlay, B. Meulendyk, V. Patel, E. Stetter - KWJ Engineering, Inc., Newark (USA), D. Peaslee, T. Russ - SPEC Sensors LLC, Newark (USA)
- Pages
- 332 - 333
- DOI
- 10.5162/SMSI2023/P27
- ISBN
- 978-3-9819376-8-8
- Price
- free
Abstract
Over the past few decades, the number of wildfires and the damage caused by them has steadily increased throughout the world. The loss of lives and the cost in damages could be avoided by using low-cost, low-power, tiny but sensitive AQ sensor arrays capable to detect the environmental changes induced by wildfires. Here we report the use of such an array built from selective electrochemical sensors to detect these changes in AQ related to fires. We describe the calibration and field data for electrochemical and other AQ sensors in widespread networks for early warning systems for wildfires.