A Wireless Sensor Network based approach to monitor and control air Pollution in large urban areas

TL;DR

This paper proposes a wireless sensor network system to monitor vehicle emissions in large cities, evaluating its energy efficiency and practicality through simulations, aiming to improve urban air quality management.

Contribution

It introduces a novel wireless sensor network approach specifically designed for urban pollution monitoring, emphasizing feasibility and energy efficiency considerations.

Findings

The proposed system is practical for urban deployment.

Simulation results show acceptable energy consumption.

The approach is compatible with existing MAC protocols.

Abstract

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.