AIRWISE - An Airborne Wireless Sensor Network for Ambient Air Pollution Monitoring

Orestis Evangelatos, José D. P. Rolim

2015

Abstract

Over the last decades with the rapid growth of industrial zones, manufacturing plants and the substantial urbanization, environmental pollution has become a crucial health, environmental and safety concern. In particular, due to the increased emissions of various pollutants caused mainly by human sources, the air pollution problem is elevated in such extent where significant measures need to be taken. Towards the identification and the qualification of that problem, we present in this paper an airborne wireless sensor network system for automated monitoring and measuring of the ambient air pollution. Our proposed system is comprised of a pollution-aware wireless sensor network and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). It is designed for monitoring the pollutants and gases of the ambient air in three-dimensional spaces without the human intervention. In regards to the general architecture of our system, we came up with two schemes and algorithms for an autonomous monitoring of a three-dimensional area of interest. To demonstrate our solution, we deployed the system and we conducted experiments in a real environment measuring air pollutants such as: NH3, CH4, CO2, O2 along with the temperature, relative humidity and atmospheric pressure. Lastly, we experimentally evaluated and analyzed the two proposed schemes.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Evangelatos O. and D. P. Rolim J. (2015). AIRWISE - An Airborne Wireless Sensor Network for Ambient Air Pollution Monitoring . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS, ISBN 978-989-758-086-4, pages 231-239. DOI: 10.5220/0005203302310239

in Bibtex Style

@conference{sensornets15,
author={Orestis Evangelatos and José D. P. Rolim},
title={AIRWISE - An Airborne Wireless Sensor Network for Ambient Air Pollution Monitoring},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS,},
year={2015},
pages={231-239},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005203302310239},
isbn={978-989-758-086-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS,
TI - AIRWISE - An Airborne Wireless Sensor Network for Ambient Air Pollution Monitoring
SN - 978-989-758-086-4
AU - Evangelatos O.
AU - D. P. Rolim J.
PY - 2015
SP - 231
EP - 239
DO - 10.5220/0005203302310239