Affiliation:
1. Automation and Robotics Laboratory (ARL), Universitat de Lleida, 25001 Lleida, Spain
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.
Funder
Departament de Recerca i Universitats de la Generalitat de Catalunya
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