Best Practice Guide

Overview

The OPENAIR Best Practice Guide for smart air quality monitoring has been developed to help local governments implement air quality monitoring projects. The Guide is divided into sections that reflect the six stages of the OPENAIR Impact Planning Cycle. Each section is organised into topic areas, with a suite of associated resources.

Each factsheet, Best Practice Guide chapter, and supplementary resource is available as an individual download. You can also download the entire Best Practice Guide as a single PDF document, with all chapters combined.

For more information about OPENAIR resources, please contact the project team.

We are adding resources as they become available.

Contents

Introduction 

1. Identify 

2. Develop 

3. Implement and operate 

4. Manage and analyse data 

5. Act on evidence 

6. Evaluate 

Introduction

This section introduces the OPENAIR Best Practice Guide for smart air quality monitoring. It provides an overview of the OPENAIR project, as well as guidance on how to use the broader suite of OPENAIR resources.

Factsheet – What is OPENAIR?

This factsheet provides an overview of the OPENAIR project.

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1. Identify

This section contains information that supports the following tasks:

  • Approval and set-up
  • Roles and governance
  • Project time frame
  • Smart places strategy development
  • Identify and engage with key stakeholders
  • Identify your strategic objective
  • Identify your data needs
  • Capacity review
  • Evaluation strategy
  • Business requirements and data use action statements

Smart places strategy development

The following resources explore how smart places best practice applies to air quality monitoring by local government.

Factsheet – Smart air quality monitoring

This factsheet provides a high-level, non-technical introduction to smart air quality monitoring.

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Best Practice Guide chapter – Smart air quality monitoring

This Best Practice Guide chapter provides a more detailed, non-technical introduction to smart air quality monitoring.

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Impact design

The following resources cover how to design a smart air quality monitoring project to maximise impact.

Factsheet – The Impact Planning Cycle at a glance

This factsheet presents an overview of the OPENAIR Impact Planning Cycle, a simple, practical framework designed to assist local governments with impact planning for a smart air quality monitoring project.

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Best Practice Guide chapter – The Impact Planning Cycle overview

This Best Practice Guide chapter introduces the OPENAIR Impact Planning Cycle, a simple, practical framework designed to assist local governments with impact planning for a smart air quality monitoring project. The Impact Planning Cycle is a planning tool that can help to maximise the impact of a project, and address the needs of an organisation and community.

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