Low-cost sensor network for wildfire monitoring and air quality measurements at remote community locations

: This manuscript reports an innovative technology that can be deployed in forest locations surrounding remote communities in the typical northwestern prairie region in Alberta, Canada. These sensor systems will provide real-time data for air quality and wildfire events based on sensor data acquisition from forestlands. The distributed low-cost sensor network will address large gaps in provincial and federal air quality monitoring networks and can potentially be integrated with national data warehouses. These systems will inform policy on public health risk mitigation, emissions monitoring, land use policy, forest management, and climate change policies.