Is there any simple way to detect the presence of this while aboard?
Note that some these meters can alarm, and sometimes alarms can be false, so if you don't want one that alarms, then find that one.
Note that there is nothing much that one can do while in flight except take pictures, videos, complain loudly, change seats from back to front, threaten to sue, maybe use the oxygen mask if lucky, and take down information of other passengers, all before fainting.