Design Discussion of a Mobile and Intelligent Infrared Detector for the Measurement of the Air Quality Index

Abstract

Continued air pollution has severely affected the health of humans around the world, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide each year [WHO18]. From the smog hovering over cities to the smoke inside the home, air pollution poses a major threat to health and the climate. The combined effects of indoor (outdoor) and domestic air pollution cause an estimated seven million premature deaths each year, largely due to increased mortality from strokes, heart disease, illnesses. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections. Multiple technological solutions are in progress to confront this problem. The quality of air in heavily populated areas become a more and more important subject that governments around the world try to monitor, for this end several projects are lunched based on scientific research given the complexity and diversity of the processes involved in the atmosphere, three complementary approaches are used; laboratory studies, modelization and observation. This paper will present a project idea that belongs to the observation domain, hence the optimization of the use of an IR (Infra – Red) detector mounted on drones to do the mapping of the air quality index in a given area.