People spend most of their time in enclosed spaces (e.g., hospital, houses, office buildings, public transportation, and schools). The coronavirus in late 2019 has rapidly spread throughout the world. After the pandemic, people started to spend more time in indoor environments, especially in hospitals. In this study, air quality monitoring was carried out in the Intensive Care Unit of a hospital in Bolu - Turkey. This is the first comprehensive study done in Turkey. In this study, PM2.5, PM10, temperature, and relative humidity parameters affecting indoor air quality were monitored instantly for one month with a Wireless Sensors Network-based system. By the results of the study, the maximum concentration of these parameters except relative humidity was higher than the limited by accepted values parameters by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Intensive Care Unit PM Indoor Air Quality Monitoring Wireless Sensor Network.
Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi
2019.31.01.1421
This study was supported by the Scientific Research Projects Department of Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University (Grant NO: 2019.31.01.1421). The authors would like to thank the hospital management, and staff for the utilization of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) which is a real-world use-case in the proposed real-time indoor air quality management system. Also, the authors are grateful to healthcare professionals for their contribution to the pandemic process that has been going on around the world since December 2019.
2019.31.01.1421
Birincil Dil | İngilizce |
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Konular | Çevre Mühendisliği |
Bölüm | Araştırma Makaleleri |
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Proje Numarası | 2019.31.01.1421 |
Yayımlanma Tarihi | 8 Haziran 2022 |
Kabul Tarihi | 10 Mayıs 2022 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2022 Cilt: 5 Sayı: 1 |