Open AccessPerformance evaluation of portable air quality measurement system using raspberry pi for remote monitoring
Author(s) -
Muhammad Farhan Mohd Pu’ad,
Teddy Surya Gunawan,
Mira Kartiwi,
Zuriati Janin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indonesian journal of electrical engineering and computer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.241
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 2502-4760
pISSN - 2502-4752
DOI - 10.11591/ijeecs.v17.i2.pp564-574
Subject(s) - air quality index , air pollution , environmental science , raspberry pi , air monitoring , pollutant , nitrogen dioxide , air pollutants , global positioning system , meteorology , engineering , real time computing , environmental engineering , embedded system , internet of things , computer science , telecommunications , geography , chemistry , organic chemistry
United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals focuses on good health and well-being for all. Air pollution becomes a huge threat to delivering on the vision of a better world and related at least to Goal 3, 7, 11, and 13. In Malaysia, air pollution index were monitored on 68 locations. The Department of Environment monitors air quality using costly continuous air quality monitoring stations (CAQMs) installed at fixed locations of highly populated and industrial areas. The objective of this paper is to develop a portable air quality measurement system which can measure particulate matters (PM) smaller than 10 and 2.5 microns, and four hazardous gasses, including carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, ground level ozone and nitrogen dioxide, as well as humidity and temperature. Six sensors were used and validated using several rigorous experiments. The functionality of the system was evaluated by measuring sub-API readings in areas with low and high traffic volumes. Experimental results showed that the proposed system was highly responsive and able to detect the types and concentrations of air pollutants instantly. Furthermore, equipped with the mobile internet, geo-tagged GPS location and web server on Raspberry Pi, the developed portable system could be accessed remotely.