The AirKit Logbook has been developed as a resource for learning more about air quality and air pollution. It is part of the AirKit toolkit for citizen-led air quality monitoring. The Logbook is available through this Github page or as a webpage and PDF. There is a short version of the Logbook available as a quick start guide for setting up a Dustbox 2.0 air quality monitor.
Within the Logbook there are resources to help you set up an air quality project to monitor and improve air quality. The Logbook also contains instructions for building a Dustbox 2.0, an air quality sensor for monitoring particulate matter. There are resources for setting up, calibrating and using a Dustbox in the field, and for analyzing your data on our data analysis platform, Airsift, which allows you to view Dustbox data, map and record observations, and write data stories with citizen data.
The AirKit Logbook has three Appendices that include an FAQ and troubleshooting section to answer common questions relating to different elements of AirKit, instructions for building your own Stevenson screen as a weatherproof Dustbox 2.0 shelter, and additional resources on air quality. This Github Logbook also contains links to software and hardware related to the Dustbox 2.0. These resources include Gerber files for printing the Dustbox 2.0 PCB, source code and enclosure STL files for 3D printing. You can view the source code for our Airsift platform on a related repository.
AirKit is developed through the Citizen Sense project, which is led by Prof Jennifer Gabrys as part of the Planetary Praxis research group in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. This research has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) to support Citizen Sense through an ERC Starting Grant 313347, and to support AirKit through an ERC Proof of Concept Grant 779921. An extensive team of researchers and collaborators contributed to AirKit, and they are listed in our Acknowledgments.
We welcome your comments and feedback to improve the toolkit. If you would like to get in touch, contact us at [email protected]. AirKit is available to use under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. You are free to use, adapt, and share this toolkit for non-commercial purposes under the same CC BY-NC-SA license, and with attribution to Citizen Sense.