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Data on CO₂, temperature and air humidity records in Spanish classrooms during the reopening of schools in the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: In order to reduce the advance of the pandemic produced by COVID-19, many actions and restrictions have been applied and the field of education has been no exception. In Spain, during the academic year 2020-2021, face-to-face teaching generally continued in both primary and secondary schools. Throughout the year, different measures have been taken to reduce the likelihood of contagion in classrooms, one of which was to improve ventilation by opening windows and doors. One of the most commonly used techniques to check for good ventilation has been CO₂ monitoring. This work provides a set of 80,000 CO₂ concentration records collected by low-cost Internet of Things nodes, primarily located within twelve classrooms in two primary schools. The published observations were collected between 1 May 2020 and 23 June 2021. Additionally, the same dataset includes temperature, air humidity and battery level observations.

SUBMITTER: Trilles S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8520590 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Data on CO<sub>2</sub>, temperature and air humidity records in Spanish classrooms during the reopening of schools in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Trilles Sergio S Juan Pablo P Chaudhuri Somnath S Fortea Ana Belen Vicente ABV

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In order to reduce the advance of the pandemic produced by COVID-19, many actions and restrictions have been applied and the field of education has been no exception. In Spain, during the academic year 2020-2021, face-to-face teaching generally continued in both primary and secondary schools. Throughout the year, different measures have been taken to reduce the likelihood of contagion in classrooms, one of which was to improve ventilation by opening windows and doors. One of the most commonly us ...[more]

PMID: 34692958

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Data on CO₂, temperature and air humidity records in Spanish classrooms during the reopening of schools in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Data on CO<sub>2</sub>, temperature and air humidity records in Spanish classrooms during the reopening of schools in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Data on CO2, temperature and air humidity records in Spanish classrooms during the reopening of schools in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Data on CO<sub>2</sub>, temperature and air humidity records in Spanish classrooms during the reopening of schools in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Data on CO₂, temperature and air humidity records in Spanish classrooms during the reopening of schools in the COVID-19 pandemic.