A Modular IoT Platform for Real-Time Indoor Air Quality Monitoring
The impact of air quality on health and on life comfort is well established. In many societies, vulnerable elderly and young populations spend most of their time indoors. Therefore, indoor air quality monitoring (IAQM) is of great importance to human health. Engineers and researchers are increasingl...
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| author | Mohieddine Benammar Abderrazak Abdaoui Sabbir H.M. Ahmad Farid Touati Abdullah Kadri |
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| description | The impact of air quality on health and on life comfort is well established. In many societies, vulnerable elderly and young populations spend most of their time indoors. Therefore, indoor air quality monitoring (IAQM) is of great importance to human health. Engineers and researchers are increasingly focusing their efforts on the design of real-time IAQM systems using wireless sensor networks. This paper presents an end-to-end IAQM system enabling measurement of CO2, CO, SO2, NO2, O3, Cl2, ambient temperature, and relative humidity. In IAQM systems, remote users usually use a local gateway to connect wireless sensor nodes in a given monitoring site to the external world for ubiquitous access of data. In this work, the role of the gateway in processing collected air quality data and its reliable dissemination to end-users through a web-server is emphasized. A mechanism for the backup and the restoration of the collected data in the case of Internet outage is presented. The system is adapted to an open-source Internet-of-Things (IoT) web-server platform, called Emoncms, for live monitoring and long-term storage of the collected IAQM data. A modular IAQM architecture is adopted, which results in a smart scalable system that allows seamless integration of various sensing technologies, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and smart mobile standards. The paper gives full hardware and software details of the proposed solution. Sample IAQM results collected in various locations are also presented to demonstrate the abilities of the system. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ffa37e1fb33e475285057239134910f22022-12-22T02:22:31ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202018-02-0118258110.3390/s18020581s18020581A Modular IoT Platform for Real-Time Indoor Air Quality MonitoringMohieddine Benammar0Abderrazak Abdaoui1Sabbir H.M. Ahmad2Farid Touati3Abdullah Kadri4Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Qatar University, Doha 2713, QatarDepartment of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Qatar University, Doha 2713, QatarDepartment of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Qatar University, Doha 2713, QatarDepartment of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Qatar University, Doha 2713, QatarQatar Mobility and Innovation Center, QSTP, Doha 210531, QatarThe impact of air quality on health and on life comfort is well established. In many societies, vulnerable elderly and young populations spend most of their time indoors. Therefore, indoor air quality monitoring (IAQM) is of great importance to human health. Engineers and researchers are increasingly focusing their efforts on the design of real-time IAQM systems using wireless sensor networks. This paper presents an end-to-end IAQM system enabling measurement of CO2, CO, SO2, NO2, O3, Cl2, ambient temperature, and relative humidity. In IAQM systems, remote users usually use a local gateway to connect wireless sensor nodes in a given monitoring site to the external world for ubiquitous access of data. In this work, the role of the gateway in processing collected air quality data and its reliable dissemination to end-users through a web-server is emphasized. A mechanism for the backup and the restoration of the collected data in the case of Internet outage is presented. The system is adapted to an open-source Internet-of-Things (IoT) web-server platform, called Emoncms, for live monitoring and long-term storage of the collected IAQM data. A modular IAQM architecture is adopted, which results in a smart scalable system that allows seamless integration of various sensing technologies, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and smart mobile standards. The paper gives full hardware and software details of the proposed solution. Sample IAQM results collected in various locations are also presented to demonstrate the abilities of the system.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/2/581indoor air quality monitoringWSNInternet-of-ThingsEmoncms |
| spellingShingle | Mohieddine Benammar Abderrazak Abdaoui Sabbir H.M. Ahmad Farid Touati Abdullah Kadri A Modular IoT Platform for Real-Time Indoor Air Quality Monitoring Sensors indoor air quality monitoring WSN Internet-of-Things Emoncms |
| title | A Modular IoT Platform for Real-Time Indoor Air Quality Monitoring |
| title_full | A Modular IoT Platform for Real-Time Indoor Air Quality Monitoring |
| title_fullStr | A Modular IoT Platform for Real-Time Indoor Air Quality Monitoring |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Modular IoT Platform for Real-Time Indoor Air Quality Monitoring |
| title_short | A Modular IoT Platform for Real-Time Indoor Air Quality Monitoring |
| title_sort | modular iot platform for real time indoor air quality monitoring |
| topic | indoor air quality monitoring WSN Internet-of-Things Emoncms |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/2/581 |
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