IoT Architectures for Indoor Radon Management: A Prospective Analysis

TL;DR

This paper reviews IoT architectures for indoor radon management, analyzing current solutions, discussing requirements, and proposing future directions to improve real-time indoor air quality monitoring.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive review of IoT-based radon management architectures, highlighting recent solutions, challenges, and future research directions.

Findings

Traditional IoT architectures are analyzed for radon management.

Recent academic solutions for indoor radon monitoring are reviewed.

Open challenges and future deployment approaches are discussed.

Abstract

The demand for real-time Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) management has increased recently, since low-cost and modern sensors such as Particulate Matter (PM), Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Radon (Rn), among others, have been put forward with considerable accuracy. Although these low-cost sensors cannot be considered measurement instruments, they are very useful for a vast number of application domains, such as home automation, smart building management, IAQ management, risk exposure assessment, to name a few. This paper presents a literature review and a prospective analysis and discussion regarding Internet of Things (IoT) technologies adopted to deal with scenarios that present known indoor Radon gas problems. Specifically, the main requirements for developing IoT-enabled radon management solutions are reviewed. Thus, a traditional IoT architecture is described, its main components are analyzed and some of the most recent academic solutions are reviewed. Finally, novel approaches for deploying IoT radon management architectures are presented together with the most relevant open challenges. In this way, this article presents a holistic review of the past, present, and future of indoor radon management in order to provide guidelines for future designers and developers.