Implementation of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) to calculate air pollution index of Samarinda City

Abstract

Environmental pollution is one of the major problems opened by the world today. The main problem of this pollution, is decreasing air quality. This decrease in air quality is caused by many things, from excessive environmental exploitations, industrial activity, energy use, until the exhaust emissions of vehicles all of which trigger into pollution problems. So far Indonesian government has purchased and use the Air Quality Monitoring Base Station to measure different types of air pollutants. However, field statistics data show that the minimum quality of air quality measuring devices in each city is not commensurate with the minimum recommended amount, ideally one base station is used for 200.000 inhabitans. In this research, we developed an integrated Wireless Sensor Network to monitor the concentration of air pollution. Implemented fifteen sensor nodes which each node contains CO and NO2 sensors to sensing from the environment. the collected data will be used to calculate the standard air pollution index of samarinda city. The data is stored in server and we can publish for public to access information throught a gadget and thing speak server.