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Are there good sensors for pollen?

cstanton

I realised that I've never thought about how pollen is tracked.

 

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I keep thinking about creating a weather station to put just outside, maybe connecting it over lorawan and having sensors that pick up this, water level, wind, temperature, all so I can collect it and present it on some kinda dashboard to prepare me for the day ahead, and pollen would be really good to have since I suffer from all sorts of allergies (frankly even picking up dust levels in the house would also be good). However I realise I don't even know where to start!

 

I wonder if this's mostly a time of year calculation based upon seasons and life cycle of the plants, or is it actually detected in the air?

 

How do you even differentiate between different pollen in the air? Are/is there particular sensors that're better for this than others? How do you differentiate between pollen and dust? What about pollution levels?

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  • There are some very expensive pollen detectors that provide a pollen count, if you can afford them.

    The low cost particle detectors have a hard time with particles of pollen size. The readings from these sensors are not useful indications of pollen.

    Determining the type of pollen is a whole magnitude tougher problem, probably requiring a fancy microscope.

    Similar to Jan - I am a great detector for ragweed and oak pollen.

    I keep looking at new low-cost sensors to see if they can detect pollen, but so far have not found a good solution.

    I think such a sensor is feasible, just hasn't quite made it to market yet.

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  • There are some very expensive pollen detectors that provide a pollen count, if you can afford them.

    The low cost particle detectors have a hard time with particles of pollen size. The readings from these sensors are not useful indications of pollen.

    Determining the type of pollen is a whole magnitude tougher problem, probably requiring a fancy microscope.

    Similar to Jan - I am a great detector for ragweed and oak pollen.

    I keep looking at new low-cost sensors to see if they can detect pollen, but so far have not found a good solution.

    I think such a sensor is feasible, just hasn't quite made it to market yet.

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