& FEIT4O2
The projects “What we breathe?” and FEIT4O2 joined part of the information about the air quality at FEIT they collect (outside and inside), so you can get a quick impression at the link:
https://thingspeak.mathworks.com/channels/3235190
It will soon be two years since the activities of the student project „What we breathe?” started at the Institute of Electronics. The project is conducted by students from the KHIE study program, under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Josif Kjosev. The material costs for components and parts are covered by the department IMS at EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) in IEEE.
IEEE published an article about the project’s work which can be found on the following website:
https://epics.ieee.org/blogs/students-in-macedonia-help-tackle-air-pollution/ ,
and the students also published a paper at the ETAI conference.
The students produced and installed sensor and display units in seven high schools across the country and one in the FEIT in the Annex. All units have been operating without interruption for more than a year. (Small interventions were made in M. Pupin where a malfunction of an ETHERNET cable was removed, in K. Nedelkovski – Veles where a fuse was disconnected and in RJK-Skopje where the structure of the WiFi network was changed, so an auxiliary router was added.) Students also prepared a sensing unit for the elementary school Petar Pop Arsov and it will be installed soon.
Another project that also deals with the problem of pollution is FEIT4O2 under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Mare Srbinovska, and is funded by FEEIT. Currently, the project is focused on monitoring air parameters inside buildings. This project has published a paper at the SDEWES conference related to air monitoring in FEIT premises, and a paper for the Energy Engineering journal is being prepared.
Both project leaders agreed to extract some of the information that the projects monitor (specificly PM10 particle concentrations) and make it available to all students and colleagues at the faculty. The goal is to provide a quick insight into the state of the air in which we live and work, and in extreme cases, to take protective steps, such as wearing a mask or turning on a purifier.
Prepared by J. Kjosev and M. Srbinovska
