2015 Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon air monitoring network

As the first example of large-scale air sensor monitoring network, Sapiens have designed and fabricated a low-cost sensor system and carried out comprehensive evaluation and comparison with other sensor and monitoring systems for the 2015 Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon. The sensor platform has high time resolution and pollutants to be measured include, but are not limited to, NO, NO2, CO, O3, and PM2.5, which are either sensors developed by the research team or state-of-the-art electrochemical sensors. 

Important environmental factors including pressure, temperature, RH, and GPS location will be also integrated in the system. Other key functions will include the real-time data display and storage, flexible data transmission options, i.e. GSM, Wifi, Bluetooth, Xbee etc, to meet the different monitoring needs.

It is the first time to provide full coverage of the air monitoring network for the 2015 Standard Chartered Marathon using Sapiens' new generation sensing technology. And it demonstrated the usefulness of the emerging sensor-based air monitoring technology in rapid network deployment to supplement existing air monitoring.