Join us
If you would like to be part of this project, you are welcome to join us. Any help is appreciated. This is a hobby project, which means there is no real budget.
If you are interested in the project and would like to:
- help the project and/or the Sensorbox team
- build your own station
- donate equipment
- collaborate with us or become a partner
- join our team
you can contact us at contact@airquality.city.
How can I help?
- you have a Raspberry Pi 2 or newer device that you are not using and are willing to donate or sell at a reduced price
- you have a suitable location for a monitoring station, sheltered from direct sunlight, rain, and snow, with approximately 30 x 20 x 15 cm of space, and are willing to provide the location, electricity usage of less than 2 W, and uninterrupted internet access through Wi-Fi or Ethernet
- you would like to write articles about topics related to the portal
- you would like to manage the portal's social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Discord, and similar platforms)
- you would like to work on the portal's design
- you would like to work on the portal's software development
- you have a suggestion that could be useful but is not covered by this list
we will not turn down your help. Feel free to contact us.
Equipment we use
- Raspberry Pi 2 or newer
- Nova PM Sensor SDS011
- BME280 temperature, pressure, and humidity sensor
- protective enclosures
- PoE adapters (optional)
How to build your own station
The project's goal is to expand and cover as much of Croatia as possible, especially in places without official particulate-matter sensors or in locations suspected of being particularly affected by air pollution.
What we need most are additional stations.
Building your own station is not particularly complicated, but it does require some technical knowledge or previous experience with Raspberry Pi computers and Linux operating systems.
In simplified terms, building a station consists of several steps:
- Acquiring the required equipment, including a Raspberry Pi 2 or newer, a PM2.5/PM10 sensor, a temperature, pressure, and humidity sensor, and protective enclosures
- Connecting the sensors and installing the hardware in the protective enclosures
- Installing the software required to collect and transfer data to the remote server
- Configuring the station in AirQuality.city, testing it, and putting it into operation
As there is currently no detailed guide for building a station, contact us at contact@airquality.city for additional guidance and help with the process.