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Real-time air quality monitoring through mobile sensing in metropolitan areas

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Srinivas Devarakonda,

Parveen Sevusu,

Badri NathAuthors Info & Claims

UrbComp '13: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Urban Computing

Article No.: 15, Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/2505821.2505834

Published: 11 August 2013 Publication History

Abstract

Traditionally, pollution measurements are performed using expensive equipment at fixed locations or dedicated mobile equipment laboratories. This is a coarse-grained and expensive approach where the pollution measurements are few and far in-between. In this paper, we present a vehicular-based mobile approach for measuring fine-grained air quality in real-time. We propose two cost effective data farming models -- one that can be deployed on public transportation and the second a personal sensing device. We present preliminary prototypes and discuss implementation challenges and early experiments.

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Real-time air quality monitoring through mobile sensing in metropolitan areas
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Personal computers and PC applications
      1. Microcomputers

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