Air Quality Sensor Setup I looked at 7 low-cost air quality sensors using the setup described below.

Most of these require a 48hour preheating period, so I kept them on for a few days before testing the output. You can check out what the preliminary sensor output looks like in several different locations.

MQ-7 (Datasheet)
Carbon Monoxide Sensor Datasheet requires a heating on/off cycle (but I did not implement it) Sensor is symmetric (A and B sides are interchangeable) I chose 2.7K as my RL

MQ-131 (Datasheet)
Ozone Sensor Sensor is symmetric (A and B sides are interchangeable) I chose 10K as my RL

GP2Y 1010AU0F (Datasheet)

Dust Sensor I ordered a 6-pin connector (Tyco Part #2058943-5 GRATIS 2058943-5 ) to avoid the fragile soldering In the diagram the pins are ardered from left to right as shown in the photograph The LED pin has to be modulated with a cycle of 1ms as discussed in the datasheet. The LED seems to use a PNP

transistor so to power on, the LED pin must actually recieve a lower voltage. Sample Arduino code: digitalWrite(ledPower,LOW); // Power on the LED // ledPower is any digital pin on the arduino connected to Pin 3 on the sensor delayMicroseconds(280); dustVal = analogRead(dustPin); // read the dust value via pin 5 on the sensor delayMicroseconds(60); digitalWrite(ledPower, HIGH); // turn the LED off delayMicroseconds(9680);

TGS 2442(Datasheet)
Another carbon monoxide sensor This sensor has 2 separate power cycles (heating and sensing circuits) Sample Arduino code: int figaroHeater = 6; // Heat VCC int figaroCircuit = 5; // Sensing VCC digitalWrite(figaroCircuit, LOW); // turn off sensing VCC analogWrite(figaroHeater, 245); // turn on heating (recommended 4.8 volts) delay(14); analogWrite(figaroHeater, 0); // turn off heating delay(981); digitalWrite(figaroCircuit, HIGH); delay(3) figaroCOVal = analogRead(figaroCOPin); // take measurement here delay(2);

TGS 2620(Datasheet)
Solvent vapor (VOC) sensor I found that it also reacts to traffic exhaust and combustion Really simple circuit, I chose 39 K as my RL

MQ-135(Datasheet)
General purpose ammonial, benzene and other harmful chemicals(VOC) sensor Symmetric pin-out (A and B sides are interchangeable) I chose 39K as my RL

TGS 2201(Datasheet)
Dual-purpose diesel and exhaust sensor R1 is the load resistance of terminal 3 (exhaust output), which I chose to be 10K R2 is the load resistance for terminal 1 (diesel output), which I chose to be 120K