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Synergies Between Indoor and Outdoor Air Quality Monitoring Tools in a Home-Working Environment
Stefano Natali, MIHAI CHIRUTA, AerosolWorks LLC, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Abstract Number: 259
Working Group: Infectious Aerosols in the Age of COVID-19
Abstract
In the past year the typical office workspace had become unusable due the poor air quality associated with the airborne transmission nature of the virus responsible for the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Many businesses using office spaces took measures trying to limit the spreading of COVID-19. One of these measures, where it was possible, was to close the office spaces and allow the personnel to work from home. In this context the transmission of COVID-19 was reduced being limited to the household environment. With such a massive workforce migration from a controlled environment to individual households' workspace arise the question of workspace at home indoor air quality.
At the same tine, outdoor air quality monitoring tools have significantly improved thanks to new satellite technologies, numerical modelling and synergies of these two sources with ground measurements. The result are reliable assessment and forecast services for urban and countryside areas.
In this paper we are going to monitor outdoor and indoor air quality parameters using the newly developed “my air” integrated environmental monitoring system for indoor analysis, and the Copernicus Sentinel-5P and the Copernicus Atmospheric monitoring Service (CAMS) for outdoor atmospheric and air quality conditions. The parameters that we will monitor are: barometric pressure, temperature, relative humidity, CO2 concentration, total volatile organic compounds concentration, and particulate matter concentration in four channels PM 1, PM2.5, PM 4, PM10. At least one urban test site (Vienna, Austria) will be taken into account. This study will contribute to the upcoming request of home-based workspaces with good indoor and outdoor air quality conditions.