Low Cost Air Pollution Monitors

We currently have approximately 50 low cost monitors installed and recording measurements in NSW, most of which are in Sydney. These monitors measure PM 2.5, PM 10, humidity and temperature. We are part of the global Sensor.community network that was initiated in Stuttgart and now has more than 14,000 citizen science monitors around the world.

A CEM monitor in its simple, PVC pipe housing.

Project updates:

How to download particulate pollution data (PM) from our monitors

We currently have approximately 50 low cost monitors installed and recording measurements in NSW, most of which are in Sydney and can be seen on the live data map. These monitors measure two sizes of particulate pollution (PM 2.5 and PM 10), as well as humidity and temperature. We have installed them as part of…

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Submission to NSW Draft Clean Air Strategy

What is CEM? Community Environmental Monitoring (CEM) is a new community grassroots organisation that aims to empower communities to respond to air quality and other environmental issues through the installation and management of an open source environmental monitoring network. We aim to produce robust data and information through analysis of our own data and other…

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