Last updated: 16.09.2020

Concluding events of the project „Smart Air Quality Network” (SAQN), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure - Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur (BMVI) under grant no. 19F2003B

23rd - 24th September 2020

Patron: Umweltamt der Stadt Augsburg (UA), Schießgrabenstraße 4, 86150 Augsburg

Technical basics: Participation in the workshop including the discussions about the talks and posters, the symposium and the meeting of the Advisory Board will be organised via MS-Teams (E-Mail to schaefer@atmosphericphysics.de for access of online participation)and also in the UA in the rooms 203 (laptop), 202 (PC) and foyer (laptop). The number of guests in these rooms is depending from the regulations of the UA. Demonstrations of measurements and applications in front of the UA at the LÜB station Königsplatz are organised for citizen and recorded by a team of the company Grandel Event & Medientechnik (camera, video, sound). A record of the events will be produced and uploaded to the internet page of the concluding events https://www.augsburg.de/saqn.



23rd September 2020


Day 1: User-relevant final SAQN project event

(in German)


Talks as well as demonstrations of measurements and applications for the citizen of Augsburg, local policymakers, environmental departments of German cities

Objectives: Citizen Science - Education – Face to face encounter – Orientation

Continuation of the internal SAQN workshop on 07 May 2018

Virtual workshop (in German)

All talks of the workshop will be provided at the internet page of the concluding events as Power Point file for desktop presentation or video one week before (for uploading send to: schaefer@atmosphericphysics.de or dropbox).

The talks will be given at the workshop as presence talks or live online talks. Citizen cannot be at the UA – questions by citizen for the talks in the internet will be collected by the UA as e-mail (messnetz.workshop@augsburg.de) and presented at the discussions (as it is announced at the internet page of the concluding events). Citizen get the answers of the experts to their questions in the record of the concluding events.

09:00 – 13:00 Moderation Thomas Gratza, UA

  • 09:00 – 10:30 Part 1, 15-minutes talks
    • 09:00 – 09:15 Willkommen durch den Umweltreferenten der Stadt Augsburg, Reiner Erben (presence talk)
    • 09:15 – 09:30 Impulsvortrag zur Gesundheitsforschung und Epidemiologie, Dr. Regina Pickford, Prof. Dr. Annette Peters, HMGU/EPI (live online talk)
    • 09:30 – 09:45 Überblick über die Ergebnisse des SAQN Projektes, Dr. Till Riedel, KIT/TECO (presence talk)
    • 09:45 – 10:00 Infrastrukturen für Messnetze der Zukunft – Herausforderungen und Ergebnisse in Augsburg, Volker Ziegler, GRIMM (presence talk)
    • 10:00 – 10:15 Feinstaub, Lungenerkrankungen und lokale Gesundheitsvorsorge, Dr. Andreas Hellmann, Lungenfacharzt, Augsburg (presence talk)
    • 10:15 – 10:30 Discussion of these talks (lecturers are present or live online)

  • 09:00 – 10:30 Attendance of press, radio, television, coordination Marcus Hank

  • 10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break in the Foyer Café

  • 10:45 – 12:00 Part 2, 15-minutes talks

    • 10:45 – 11:00 Auswirkungen der Mobilitätsbeschränkungen während der Corona-Pandemie auf die Luftqualität, Josef Cyrys, HMGU/EPI; M. Pitz, M. Dallavalle, N. Nikolaou, M. Kowalski (presence talk)
    • 11:00 – 11:15 Optisch Masse messen, eine neue Methode zur Feinstauberfassung, Hans Grimm, Aerosol Akademie (live online talk)
    • 11:15 – 11:30 Chemische Zusammensetzung von Feinstaub aus verschiedenen Emissionsquellen, Jürgen Schnelle-Kreis, HMGU/CMA (presence talk)
    • 11:30 – 11:45 Feinstaub und Gesundheit, Josef Cyrys, HMGU/EPI (presence talk)
    • 11:45 – 12:00 Discussion of these talks (lecturers are present or live online)
  • 12:00 – 13:00 Part 3, 15-minutes talks
    • 12:00 – 12:15 Neue Sensor-Anwendungen in der Erfassung der Luftqualität: Informationen und Anforderungen von einer kürzlich stattgefundenen internationalen Konferenz, Nicolas Moussiopoulos, Aristotle University Thessaloniki (presence talk)
    • 12:15 – 12:30 Citizen Science Messungen der NO2-Konzentration an verschiedenen Standorten in Deutschland und europäischen Nachbarländern, Dorothea Saar, DUH (live online talk)
    • 12:30 – 12:45 Lösungen für die Luftqualität von Bosch – von der Luftqualitätsüberwachung zur Emissionserfassung und Verkehrssteuerung, Martin Schreivogel, Bosch (presence talk)
    • 12:45 – 13:00 Discussion of these talks (lecturers are present or live online)

  • 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

  • 14.00 – 15.00 Discussion of experts with representatives of the press, radio, television, moderation Marcus Hank

Demonstrations of measurements and applications in front of the UA at the LÜB station Königsplatz

There will be interviews with experts, citizen and presenters. During rain it will be organised in room 203 inside the UA. All posters (as pdf file) and videos will be provided at the internet page of the concluding events one week before (for uploading send to: schaefer@atmosphericphysics.de or dropbox).

Also, questions by citizen will be collected by the UA as e-mail (messnetz.workshop@augsburg.de) and presented at the discussions (as it is announced at the internet page of the concluding events). Citizen get the answers of the experts to their questions in the record of the concluding events.

  • 14:00 – 16:30 Moderation Thomas Gratza, Klaus Schäfer

    • Demonstrations of SAQN project results Poster of the Institute of Geography of the University of Augsburg (IGUA) Measurement station of HMGU near to the LÜB station with instruments GRIMM, TUG, FZI, IGU, Hawa Dawa, Sensirion und Earthsense Exhibition GRIMM + HMGU, IGUA, KIT/TECO

    • Demonstration of related project results Gas sensors with poster: Gas sensors and crowd-sourcing, Paul Gäbel, Elke Hertig, Regional Climate Change and Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Augsburg Sensors for mobile detection of air quality with presentation of measurements onboard of busses, Kristian Lande, AirVeraCity, Lausanne, Switzerland Airquix (measurement box) with poster: Investigation of personal air pollutant exposure by a mobile measurement system, Mark Wenig, Sheng Ye, LMU Low-cost fine particle sensors with poster: Low-cost fine dust sensors in projects of students at the HSD, Konradin Weber, HSD UAV profile investigations in the urban area of Düsseldorf (poster), Konradin Weber, HSD Ultra-fine particle exposure in the area of the airport Düsseldorf (poster), Konradin Weber, HSD Smart City Node with poster: Measurement result by SmartCityNode, Markus Lücking, FZI, Karlsruhe Air quality detection by low-cost sensor measurement network (poster), Anna-Laura Liebenstund, NordAllianz, Metropolregion München Nord, Ismaning Aircrafts (multicopter, unmanned and manned aircraft) for aerosol measurements in Spitzbergen and air samples to analyse Methane in a moor (video), Astrid Lampert, TU Braunschweig

  • 15:30 - 16:00 Discussion of the posters in the Foyer Café (authors are present or live-online)

    • Citizen workshop for air quality measurements with low-cost mobile sensors, Paul Tremper, KIT/TECO

    • Supporting program about sustainable development of Augsburg Umweltamt der Stadt Augsburg Demonstration of the LÜB station Königsplatz, Stefan Weigand, Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt



24th September 2020


Day 2: International scientific symposium

(in English)


Objectives: Information exchange, development of new research topics, looking for new applications, initiatives for joint project proposals

Continuation of the international workshop on assessing fine-granular modelling and measurement of particulate matter on 04 – 05 December 2018 at HMGU in Munich-Neuherberg

Virtual symposium All talks can be collected at a central PC since beginning of September (for uploading send to: schaefer@atmosphericphysics.de or dropbox).

The talks will be given at the symposium as presence talks or live online talks.

09:00 – 15:40 Moderation Klaus Schäfer

  • 09:00 – 12:45 Part 1, all 10-minutes presence or live-online talks
    • 09:00 – 11:00 Presentations of the SAQN project results
      • 09:00 – 09:10 Sensing, integration and visualization of heterogeneous air quality data in SmartAQnet, Paul Tremper, Matthias Budde, Johannes Riesterer, Till Riedel, Michael Beigl, KIT/TECO (presence talk)
      • 09:10 – 09:20 Regression models and computer architectures for heterogenic measurement networks and sensor field calibration, Johannes Riesterer, KIT/TECO (live online talk)
      • 09:20 – 09:30 Results and challenges of mid-cost-Sensor applications and their referencing (field calibration), Markus Pesch, GRIMM (live online talk)
      • 09:30 – 09:40 Spatial differentiation of PM10 distribution in dependence from emission sources and land use, Erik Petersen, Andreas Philipp, IGUA (presence talk)
      • 09:40 – 09:50 Influences of meteorological parameters upon PM10 vertical distribution, Johanna Redelstein, Andreas Philipp, IGUA (presence talk)
      • 09:50 – 10:00 Discussion of these talks (all lecturers are present or live online)
      • 10:00 – 10:10 Use of Mid-Cost Sensors to build a high-resolution network in Augsburg city: first results, Michal Kowalski, HMGU/EPI and WZU Uni Augsburg (presence talk)
      • 10:10 – 10:20 Innovative use of sensor data to improve spatiotemporal emission inventories, U. Uhrner, TUG; J. Werhahn, KIT/IMK-IFU; R. Reifeltshammer, TUG; A. Philipp, IGUA; R. Kunde, ZAE; P.J. Sturm, TUG (presence talk)
      • 10:20 – 10:30 High resolution air quality simulations for Augsburg by the large eddy simulation model PALM-4U, J. Werhahn, R. Forkel, S. Emeis, KIT/IMK-IFU; R. Reifeltshammer, U. Uhrner, TUG (presence talk)
      • 10:30 – 10:40 Fine-granular assessment of air quality in urban areas – a business model perspective, Klaus Schäfer, Aerosol Akademie (presence talk)
      • 10:40 – 10:50 Discussion of these talks including feedback from BMVI / Projektträger (all lecturers are present)

    • 10:50 – 11:05 Coffee break in the Foyer Café

    • 11:05 – 12:45 Other topics part 1, all 10-minutes presence or live-online talks
      • 11:05 – 12:05 Concepts of smart air quality measurement networks in other cities
        • 11:05 – 11:15 Determination of the spatial and temporal distribution of particulate matter and black carbon with backpack measurements with citizen participation, Jens Voigtländer, Thomas Müller, Liina Tönisson, Denise Assmann, Ralf Käthner, Bernd Heinold, Oswald Knoth, Andreas Macke, TROPOS, Leipzig (presence talk)
        • 11:15 – 11:25 Bus mounted sensor detection of air quality and scenarios for data quality determination, Kristian Lande, AirVeraCity, Lausanne, Switzerland (live online talk)
        • 11:25 – 11:35 Role of LUBW for application of low-cost sensors and investigation of three low-cost censors for NO2, Kassandra Karger, Landesanstalt für Umwelt Baden-Württemberg (LUBW), Karlsruhe (presence talk by substitute)
        • 11:35 – 11:45 Computational improvement and fusion of low-cost air quality sensor data in Thessaloniki, Greece, Th. Kassandros, K. Karatzas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (live-online talk)
        • 11:45 – 11:55 Importance of reliability for environmental sensing, Daniel Rüffer, SENSIRION AG, Stäfa, Switzerland (live online talk)
        • 11:55 – 12:05 Discussion of these talks (all lecturers are present or live online)
      • 12:05 – 12:45 Measurement techniques for smart air quality measurement networks
        • 12:05 – 12:15 Development of air quality boxes based on low-cost sensor technology, Paul Gäbel, Elke Hertig, Regional Climate Change and Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Augsburg (presence talk)
        • 12:15 – 12:25 New development of lightweight network-ready CO2 dropsonde sensors for the monitoring of fugitive emissions, Konradin Weber, Christian Fischer, Detlef Amend, Tobias Pohl, Hochschule Düsseldorf (presence talk)
        • 12:25 – 12:35 New gas sensor for the air pollutant nitrogen dioxid (NO2): Results from laboratory tests, Johannes Kapp, Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques (live-online talk)
        • 12:35 – 12:45 Discussion of these talks (all lecturers are present or live online)

  • 12:45 – 13:30 Lunch break

  • 13:30 – 15:40: Part 2, all 10-minutes presence or live-online talks

    • 13:30 – 13:50 Influences of Covid-19 lockdown upon air quality
      • 13:30 – 13:40 WRF simulations for NOx and PM10, Renate Forkel, KIT/IMK-IFU (live-online talk)
      • 13:40 – 13:50 Discussion of this talk (lecturer is live online)
    • 13:50 – 14:20 Data management systems and small-scale numerical simulations
      • 13:50 – 14:00 Adaptation of an interactive Air Quality Management Framework for supporting SmartAQnet modelling activities, George Tsegas, Nicolas Moussiopoulos, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece (live-online talk)
      • 14:00 – 14:10 High resolution air quality modelling over Munich city using POLYPHEMUS/DLR and EULAG models, E. Khorsandi, F. Baier, M. Bittner, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen (presence talk)
      • 14:10 – 14:20 Discussion of these talks (all lecturers are present or live online)
    • 14:20 – 14:50 Personal air pollution exposure detection for application in epidemiological studies
      • 14:20 – 14:30 Investigating the changes in health risk due to the exposure to air pollution for different road traffic scenarios in the Alps, L. Gilardi, E. Khorsandi, T. Erbertseder, F. Baier, M. Bittner, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen (live-online talk)
      • 14:30 – 14:40 Personal exposure study of cyclist in Düsseldorf, K. Weber, T. Pohl, C. Fischer, M. Lange, T. Kramer, Hochschule Düsseldorf, B. Hoffmann, V.J. Soppa, L. Glaubitz, University Düsseldorf (presence talk)
      • 14:40 – 14:50 Discussion of these talks (all lecturers are present or live online)
    • 14:50 – 15:30 Applications of smart air quality networks
      • 14:50 – 15:00 Effect measurement of PM-mitigation in the courtyard of the American Embassy School (New Delhi, India), Guido Jenniskens, ENS Technology, Cuijk, The Netherlands (presence talk)
      • 15:00 – 15:10 Assessing and enhancing the use of low-cost sensors for epidemiological studies, Chacón Mateos, U. Vogt, B. Laquai, I. Chourdakis, G.C. Solís Castillo, A. Samad, University Stuttgart (presence talk)
      • 15:10 – 15:20 Application of low-cost sensor boxes for epidemiological studies, Ulrich Uhrner, Technical University Graz, Austria (presence talk)
      • 15:20 – 15:30 Using high resolution pollution data for individual and city-level exposure management, B. Fullerton, Hawa Dawa GmbH, München (live-online talk)
      • 15:30 – 15:40 Discussion of these talks (all lecturers are present or live online)
  • 15:40 – 16:00 Coffee break in the Foyer Café

Virtual advisory board meeting

  • 16:00 – 17:00 Virtual meeting of the advisory board with all participants from SAQN

Contact: Project SmartAQnet Coordination Team smartaqnet@teco.edu