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.

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.

Air Pollution Monitoring System Based on IoT with Cloud

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-134
Author(s):  
Emny Harna Yossy ◽  
Arya Maulana ◽  
Ramadhani Prastyantoro
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
System Development ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Cloud Platform ◽  
Air Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Development Life Cycle ◽  
The City

Air pollution kills about seven million people worldwide every year. In Indonesia itself, especially the city of Jakarta, Jakarta's air quality has been ranked as the tenth worst in the world. The purpose of the research is to design an air pollution monitoring system that can help the community to know the level of pollution in their area. The system development method uses a system development life cycle, namely the waterfall. The evaluation method uses blackbox testing for the system and eight golden rules for the user interface. The result achieved is a system that can monitor IoT-based air pollution with the cloud. This system uses several technologies such as Google cloud platform which consists of IoT Core, Pub Sub, Firestore Database, and Google Cloud Function. The MQ 135 temperature sensor and ESP 32 module are also used to be able to read air pollution conditions and send it to the cloud. The conclusion of this study is that the system created can be easily accessed by users to be able to determine IoT-based air quality.

scholarly journals Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution Monitoring Developments in the Municipality of Thessaloniki – Preliminary Actions from Three European Funded Projects

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgios Papastergios ◽  
Paraskevi Tzoumaka ◽  
Apostolos Kelessis
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Outdoor Air ◽  
Air Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Outdoor Air Pollution ◽  
The City ◽  
Indoor And Outdoor

Air pollution has been one of the first environmental problems to be addressed by the EU and for this reason clean air is considered essential to good health. Information availability and understanding of the air quality issue is essential part of tackling it with efficiency. Having the latter in mind, the Municipality of Thessaloniki has considered relative environmental actions as an important priority and made significant efforts to include them in its short-term and long-term, already developed, strategies. Through these strategies the Municipality became partner in three important EU funded projects that are dealing with indoor and outdoor air pollution monitoring actions, namely CUTLER, AIRTHINGS, and LIFE SMART IN'AIR. The successful implementation of these projects will add to the knowledge of indoor and outdoor air quality in the City of Thessaloniki, whereas, at the same time, will improve the resilience of the city and the well being of its citizens.

scholarly journals Some benefits of improving urban air quality from the perspective of Ho Chi Minh City people

2020 ◽  
Vol 211 ◽  
pp. 01005
Author(s):  
Nguyen Tan Danh ◽  
Le Minh Quang
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Uv Index ◽  
Air Pollution Monitoring ◽  
The People ◽  
Hot Weather ◽  
The City

In addition to the hot weather with an extremely high UV index, the air quality in some big cities of Vietnam also alarming. Air pollution will have a large impact on urban development and, above all, people’s health. The results of air pollution monitoring over the past time in Ho Chi Minh City in some locations show that dust pollution and fine dust concentration (PM2.5) in the air of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Ho Chi Minh City are still high and at an alarming level. This is a problem of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and a matter of concern in other countries, especially Asian countries. A few years ago, this issue was mentioned, but now it still causes frustration. The article discusses the factors that affect the air quality, and for that reason the people of the city in particular and this study must take this issue seriously and need to have effective measures.

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 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 Geolocation based air pollution mobile monitoring system

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 162
Author(s):  
Aya Mazin Talib ◽  
Mahdi Nsaif Jasim
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Solid Particles ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Liquid Droplets ◽  
Air Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Data Mining Algorithms ◽  
Tree Classifier

Air pollution is conducted to harmful substances like solid particles, gases or liquid droplets. More pollutants CO, SO2, NOx, CO2.This research is proposed the design and implementation of mobile, low cost and accurate air pollution monitoring system using Arduino microcontroller and gas sensor like MQ2, MQ131, MQ135, MQ136, DHT22, measuring materials mentioned above, smoke, Acetone, Alcohol, LPG, Toluene, temperature, humidity and GPS sensor”NEO-6M” that track the location of air pollution data, and display the analysis result on ESRI maps. The system also save the results on SQL server DB. The data is classified using data mining algorithms, presenting the result on a map helps governmental organizations, nature guards, and ecologists to analyze data in real time to simplify the decision making process. The proposed system uses J48 pruning tree classifier generated using cross validation of fold (10) with highest accuracy 100%, while IBK ≈99.67, Naïve bays ≈90.89, and SVM ≈81.4. It’s found that the common air quality for Baghdad (study area) is between (“Good”, “Satisfactory”, and “Moderately”) for 1835 records of air samples during (January and February 2021) time period.

scholarly journals Increasing the efficiency of the atmospheric air monitoring system in the city of Sevastopol

2021 ◽  
pp. 118-128
Author(s):  
G.A. Sigora ◽  
◽  
S.A. Gutnik ◽  
E.I. Azarenkо ◽  
L.A. Nichkova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Monitoring Network ◽  
Air Monitoring ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Atmospheric Air ◽  
Air Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Mobile Sources ◽  
The City

This article summarizes the obtained results of assessing the effectiveness of monitoring of atmospheric air pollution in the city of Sevastopol by stationary and mobile sources and gives recommendations for its improving. Analysis of the existing air monitoring network shows that the monitoring system needs to be modernized due to a number of identified inconsistencies: the number of stationary posts in the city of Sevastopol does not meet the requirements of RD 52.04.186-89 and their number should be increased; the location of stationary posts does not allow obtaining an objective picture of air pollution in all areas of the city; the list of specific impurities subject to control requires clarification and justification based on the available data on the actual intake of pollutants into the city atmosphere; the location of checkpoints on highways does not cover all highways in the city. A list of the largest stationary pollution sources is compiled. Maximum permissible emissions of 243 enterprises are analyzed, including information on 1482 sources of emissions. The main sources of air pollution are revealed and their ranking by gross emissions is performed. An assessment of the data of field observations of atmospheric air pollution in the city of Sevastopol for compliance with the current standards is carried out and a preliminary list of pollutants is formulated to justify the expediency of their control at stationary and route points of the city. The article describes some aspects of a large-scale study aimed at assessing the effectiveness of the air pollution monitoring in the city of Sevastopol. Other stages of research and proposals for modernizing the monitoring system are planned to be published in a series of subsequent articles.

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.

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