A Retrospective Analysis of Indoor CO2 Measurements Obtained with a Mobile Robot during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sensors (Basel). 2024 May 13;24(10):3102. doi: 10.3390/s24103102.

Abstract

This work presents a retrospective analysis of indoor CO2 measurements obtained with a mobile robot in an educational building after the COVID-19 lockdown (May 2021), at a time when public activities resumed with mandatory local pandemic restrictions. The robot-based CO2 measurement system was assessed as an alternative to the deployment of a net of sensors in a building in the pandemic period, in which there was a global stock outage of CO2 sensors. The analysis of the obtained measurements confirms that a mobile system can be used to obtain interpretable information on the CO2 levels inside the rooms of a building during a pandemic outbreak.

Keywords: CO2 sensor; COVID-19; air quality; airborne outbreak; mobile robot.

MeSH terms

  • Air Pollution, Indoor* / analysis
  • COVID-19* / epidemiology
  • Carbon Dioxide* / analysis
  • Environmental Monitoring / methods
  • Humans
  • Pandemics*
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Robotics* / methods
  • SARS-CoV-2 / isolation & purification

Substances

  • Carbon Dioxide