scholarly journals Site Suitability Analysis for Low Cost Sensor Networks for Urban Spatially Dense Air Pollution Monitoring

Atmosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1215
Author(s):  
Grazia Fattoruso ◽  
Martina Nocerino ◽  
Domenico Toscano ◽  
Luigi Pariota ◽  
Giampiero Sorrentino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
Monitoring Networks ◽  
Suitability Analysis ◽  
Site Suitability ◽  
Air Pollution Monitoring ◽  
A Site

Urban air pollution continues to represent a primary concern for human health, despite significant efforts by public authorities for mitigating its effects. Regulatory monitoring networks are essential tools for air pollution monitoring. However, they are sparse networks, unable to capture the spatial variability of the air pollutants. For addressing this issue, networks of low cost stations are deployed, supplementing the regulatory stations. Regarding this application, an important question is where these stations are installed The objective of this study was to generate a site suitability map for the development of a network of low cost multi-sensor stations across a city for a spatially dense urban air quality monitoring. To do that, a site suitability analysis was developed based on two geographical variables properly selected for representing the impact of urban pollutant sources and urban form on the pollutant concentrations. By processing information about emissions patterns and street canyon effects, we were able to identify air quality hotspot areas supposed to show high spatial variability. Low cost monitoring stations, there located, are able to provide that informative content, which is lacking for both regulatory monitoring networks and predictive modelling for high resolution air quality mapping.

scholarly journals Development of a low-cost outdoor carbon monoxide analyzer applied to the city of Oran, Algeria.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farid RAHAL ◽  
Noureddine BENABADJI ◽  
Mohamed BENCHERIF ◽  
Mohamed Menaouer BENCHERIF
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Carbon Monoxide ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Electrochemical Sensor ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Atmospheric Pollutants ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Coefficient Of Determination ◽  
Air Pollution Monitoring ◽  
The City

Abstract In Algeria, air pollution is classified as a major risk by the law. However, this risk is underestimated because there is no operational network for measuring air quality on a continuous basis.Despite the heavy investments made to equip several cities with these measurement systems, they are out of order due to a lack of continuous financial support.The alternative to the absence of these air pollution measurement networks can come from the recent development of electrochemical sensor technologies for air quality monitoring which arouses a certain interest because of their miniaturization, low energy consumption and low cost.We developed a low-cost outdoor carbon monoxide analyzer called APOMOS (Air pollution Monitoring System) based on electrochemical sensor managed by microcontroller. An application developed with the Python language makes it possible to manage process and analyze the collected data.In order to validate the APOMOS system, the recorded measurements are compared with measurements taken by a conventional analyzer.Comparison of the measurements resulting from conventional analyzer and those resulting from the APOMOS system gives a coefficient of determination of 98.39 %.Two versions of this system have been designed. A fixed version and another embedded, equipped with a GPS sensor. These 2 variants were used in the city of Oran in Algeria to measure the concentration of carbon monoxide continuously.The targeted pollutant is carbon monoxide. However, the design of the APOMOS system allows its evolution in an easy way in order to integrate other sensors concerning the various atmospheric pollutants.

scholarly journals Air pollution monitoring with secure low-cost Vehicular Sensor Networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 03007
Author(s):  
György KolumbÁn-Antal ◽  
Vladko Lasak ◽  
Razvan Bogdan ◽  
Bogdan Groza
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Measuring System ◽  
Weather Data ◽  
Transmission Protocol ◽  
Air Pollution Monitoring

Counteracting the effects of air quality degradation is one of the main challenges in large cities today. To achieve such a goal, the first step is to control the emissions of various pollutant gases which in turn requires their concentrations to be measured such that proper methods can be applied. In this work we present a low cost urban air pollution monitoring system which we developed as proof-of-concept in Timisoara, Romania. The proposed solution is a Vehicular Sensor Network (VSN), with affordable midclass sensor nodes being installed on moving vehicles, ideally on the public transportation busses. The system measures temperature, humidity, the concentration of CO2 and dust, along with Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC). The aim of collecting weather data is to build correlations between air pollution levels and different weather conditions. In addition to technical constraints for measuring air quality, one of the challenges that we address is to implement secure transmissions between the devices. This raises several difficulties on microcontrollers that we use due to their low memory and computational resources. To answer both privacy and security issues, the proposed data transmission protocol of the measuring system, builds upon a modified version of the Station to Station (STS) protocol which allows secure tunnelling in an anonymous manner.

scholarly journals Key Concerns and Drivers of Low-Cost Air Quality Sensor Use

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 584
Author(s):  
Priyanka Nadia deSouza
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Quality Information ◽  
User Reviews ◽  
Air Pollution Monitoring ◽  
The Public

Low-cost sensors are revolutionizing air pollution monitoring by providing real-time, highly localized air quality information. The relatively low-cost nature of these devices has made them accessible to the broader public. Although there have been several fitness-of-purpose appraisals of the various sensors on the market, little is known about what drives sensor usage and how the public interpret the data from their sensors. This article attempts to answer these questions by analyzing the key themes discussed in the user reviews of low-cost sensors on Amazon. The themes and use cases identified have the potential to spur interventions to support communities of sensor users and inform the development of actionable data-visualization strategies with the measurements from such instruments, as well as drive appropriate ‘fitness-of-purpose’ appraisals of such devices.

scholarly journals Low-cost air pollution monitoring system—an opportunity for reducing the health risk associated with physical activity in polluted air

PeerJ ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. e10041
Author(s):  
Zenon Nieckarz ◽  
Jerzy A. Zoladz
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Air Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Identical Construction ◽  
The City

The issue of air pollution by particulate matter (PM) concerns many places in the world. At the same time, many residents undertake physical activity (recreation, rehabilitation, sport) in the open air. Generally, the amount of dust concentration depends on both the place (center or periphery of the city) and the time of day. In the present study we describe the outcome of monitoring of the state of air pollution by particle matter (PM10) in the Kraków agglomeration area in order to show that it can provide information concerning air quality in the area where people practice varied kinds of sports in the open air. The measurements of PM10 have been made by a few stations with identical construction working as one network. The details of the air pollution monitoring system and its data quality verification have been described. The network stations made multipoint observations across the Kraków Metropolitan Area during the year 2017 in eight locations. The locations selected represent a diverse spectrum of terrain conditions in which the Kraków agglomeration community undertakes physical activity. For most months of 2017, the minimum monthly average 4-hour PM10 concentrations were recorded between 10–14 h, regardless of location, whereas the maximum was between 18–22. We also noticed a huge differences in the average monthly value of PM10 in some locations within the Kraków agglomeration—ranging between 4.9–339.0 µg m−3. This indicates that some regions of the city are more suitable for performance of physical activity in the open air than others. In conclusion, we postulate that a low-cost air pollution monitoring system is capable of providing valuable information concerning air quality in a given region, which seems to be of importance also to people who practice varied sports activities in the open air.

Low-Cost Air Pollution Monitoring Device Based on Air Quality Index

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rishabh Bajaj ◽  
Rishav Sen ◽  
Anik Sengupta ◽  
Aryama Sen ◽  
Sayan Karmakar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Quality Index ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Air Quality Index ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Monitoring Device ◽  
Air Pollution Monitoring

scholarly journals MoreAir: A Low-Cost Urban Air Pollution Monitoring System

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ihsane Gryech ◽  
Yassine Ben-Aboud ◽  
Bassma Guermah ◽  
Nada Sbihi ◽  
Mounir Ghogho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Urban Air Pollution ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
Air Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Deployment Strategy

MoreAir is a low-cost and agile urban air pollution monitoring system. This paper describes the methodology used in the development of this system along with some preliminary data analysis results. A key feature of MoreAir is its innovative sensor deployment strategy which is based on mobile and nomadic sensors as well as on medical data collected at a children’s hospital, used to identify urban areas of high prevalence of respiratory diseases. Another key feature is the use of machine learning to perform prediction. In this paper, Moroccan cities are taken as case studies. Using the agile deployment strategy of MoreAir, it is shown that in many Moroccan neighborhoods, road traffic has a smaller impact on the concentrations of particulate matters (PM) than other sources, such as public baths, public ovens, open-air street food vendors and thrift shops. A geographical information system has been developed to provide real-time information to the citizens about the air quality in different neighborhoods and thus raise awareness about urban pollution.

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