Practical Guidance for Using PurpleAir Particle Monitors for Indoor and Outdoor Measurements in Community Field Studies.

ABSTRACT: Low-cost particle monitors have been widely evaluated in laboratory and ambient monitoring settings, but we have less knowledge about their performance for long-term indoor and outdoor monitoring in residential settings. We seek to provide practical guidance for using a type of low-cost particle monitors that have become widespread for indoor and outdoor monitoring in community field studies, PurpleAir PA-II monitors. We base our insights on experiences in a community-led residential field study in and around homes of predominantly agricultural workers in California's San Joaquin Valley. Our guidance spans three categories: (1) providing tools for handling and merging disparate data structures resulting from Wi-Fi-transmitted data and data collected on onboard microSD cards, (2) assessing

SUBMITTER: Wang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12339596 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature