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However, they suffer from many forms of drift caused by climatic parameter variations, interfering gases and aging. Therefore, they require frequent, expensive and time-consuming calibrations, which constitute the main obstacle to the exploitation of these kinds of sensors. This paper proposes an empirical, linear and unsupervised drift correction model, allowing to extend the time between two successive full calibrations. First, a calibration model is established based on multiple linear regression. The influence of the air temperature and humidity is considered. Then, a correction model is proposed to solve the drift related to age issue. The slope and the intercept of the correction model compensate the change over time of the sensors\u2019 sensitivity and baseline, respectively. The parameters of the correction model are identified using particle swarm optimization (PSO). Data considered in this work are continuously collected onsite close to a highway crossing Metz City (France) during a period of 6 months (July to December 2018) covering almost all the climatic conditions in this region. Experimental results show that the suggested correction model allows maintaining an adequate [NO2] estimation accuracy for at least 3 consecutive months without needing any labeled data for the recalibration.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21113581","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,24]],"date-time":"2021-05-24T00:01:20Z","timestamp":1621814480000},"page":"3581","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":32,"title":["Empiric Unsupervised Drifts Correction Method of Electrochemical Sensors for in Field Nitrogen Dioxide Monitoring"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1648-8587","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rachid","family":"Laref","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratoire de Conception, Optimisation et Mod\u00e9lisation des Syst\u00e8mes, LCOMS EA 7306, Universit\u00e9 de Lorraine, 57000 Metz, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3324-3813","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Etienne","family":"Losson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratoire de Conception, Optimisation et Mod\u00e9lisation des Syst\u00e8mes, LCOMS EA 7306, Universit\u00e9 de Lorraine, 57000 Metz, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5263-4959","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alexandre","family":"Sava","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratoire de Conception, Optimisation et Mod\u00e9lisation des Syst\u00e8mes, LCOMS EA 7306, Universit\u00e9 de Lorraine, 57000 Metz, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Maryam","family":"Siadat","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratoire de Conception, Optimisation et Mod\u00e9lisation des Syst\u00e8mes, LCOMS EA 7306, Universit\u00e9 de Lorraine, 57000 Metz, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"293","DOI":"10.1016\/j.envint.2016.12.007","article-title":"Can commercial low-cost sensor platforms contribute to air quality monitoring and exposure estimates?","volume":"99","author":"Castell","year":"2017","journal-title":"Environ. 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