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Abstract - A temporal deep learning framework for calibration of low-cost air quality sensors
Low-cost air quality sensors (LCS) provide a practical alternative to expensive regulatory-grade instruments, making dense urban monitoring networks possible. Yet their adoption is limited by calibration challenges, including sensor drift, environmental cross-sensitivity, and variability in performance from device to device. This work presents a deep learning framework for calibrating LCS measurements of PM$_{2.5}$, PM$_{10}$, and NO$_2$ using a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network, trained on co-located reference data from the OxAria network in Oxford, UK. Unlike the Random Forest (RF) baseline, which treats each observation independently, the proposed approach captures temporal dependencies and delayed environmental effects through sequence-based learning, achieving higher $R^2$ values across training, validation, and test sets for all three pollutants. A feature set is constructed combining time-lagged parameters, harmonic encodings, and interaction terms to improve generalization on unseen temporal windows. Validation of unseen calibrated values against the Equivalence Spreadsheet Tool 3.1 demonstrates regulatory compliance with expanded uncertainties of 22.11% for NO$_2$, 12.42% for PM$_{10}$, and 9.1% for PM$_{2.5}$.
用于低成本空气质量传感器校准的时间深度学习框架 /
A temporal deep learning framework for calibration of low-cost air quality sensors
1️⃣ 一句话总结
该研究提出了一种基于长短期记忆网络(LSTM)的深度学习框架,通过捕捉传感器数据中的时间依赖关系和滞后环境影响,有效校准了低成本空气质量传感器对PM2.5、PM10和NO₂的测量结果,在牛津的实际监测数据上验证其性能显著优于传统随机森林方法,并满足了法规要求的测量精度标准。