AIRSENS

Benefit of the project

The main benefit of the project will be the continuous monitoring of air quality before the heating season and especially in the colder and winter season in small settlements of the South Moravian Region with local heating stations using sensors. This benefit will be reinforced by an innovative approach:

1. Using the design of installing up to 4 sensor units per small municipality (to cover the whole municipality, its specifics and also all the main meteorological conditions), as opposed to the classical approach of only one measuring site;
2. accredited sampling and analysis of 29 PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) in dust samples taken (the most toxicologically significant pollutants from local heating sites);
3. measurement of basic meteorological conditions in each assessed municipality (including wind direction and wind speed);
4. health risk screening analyses based on measurements of sorbed 29 PAHs on dust particles;
5. comparison/estimation of the economic costs of these health risks;
6. Comparison of municipalities with each other, between JMK and Brno, as well as, for example, between municipalities without gas connection with those that are gas connected;
7. conducting a survey among residents - determining the willingness of residents to make a certain desired change and defining key barriers to achieving this change; economic evaluation of health risks
8. conducting semi-structured interviews with stakeholders - identifying perceived air pollution problems in the municipality and proposing solutions