A Wireless Sensor Network based approach to monitor and control air Pollution in large urban areas
This addresses air pollution control for urban planners, but it is incremental as it builds on existing sensor network methods.
The paper tackles air pollution monitoring in urban areas by proposing a wireless sensor network for vehicle exhaust systems, and simulation results show the approach is practical with existing MAC protocols.
Air pollution is a major concern in large urban areas. Various studies have been made to monitor and control the pollution level emitted by the vehicles but some main factors like ease of implementation or feasibility of the proposed approaches are not focused in the told studies. In this paper we propose a wireless sensor network solution to monitor vehicles exhaust systems pollution emission. Furthermore, we evaluate the feasibility of our proposed approach with respect to energy consumption and network lifetime by means of simulation. Our results indicate that our proposed scheme is practical for implementation using well known MAC layer protocols.