Real-Time Indoor Air Quality Index Prediction Using a Vacuum Cleaner Robot's AIoT Electronic Nose

Abstract

To encourage the good health and well-being sustainable development goal, this article presents the design and implementation of real-time indoor air quality index (AQI) prediction using an artificial internet of things (AIoT) electronic nose integrated into a vacuum cleaner robot. The objective of the proposed method is to implement an effective embedded AIoT solution utilizing sensor fusion and the TinyML framework for the purpose of strengthening the environmental health system with suitable current technology. The high-accuracy sensor outputs of total volatile organic compounds (TVOC), humidity, equivalent carbon dioxide (eCO2), and PM2.5 gathered as the dataset are normalized in the data pre-processing state and utilized to create trained models using dense neural networks (DNN) deep learning algorithms. Tiny machine learning is responsible for neural network training, as it is capable of executing AI algorithms on embedded devices with extremely low power consumption and limited RAM and ROM resources. The testing results demonstrate that the predictive model performed well, with 99% accuracy for a maximum absolute regression error less than 15 and an 18.33 mean square error. The embedded device implementation uses Wio terminals with ARM Cortex-M4F microcontrollers for real-time indoor air quality index prediction and visualization. Experimental results demonstrating the average precision of the indoor AQI prediction were obtained at an average accuracy of over 98% with a computation time of 10 milliseconds and an acceptable usage of ROM and RAM resources of 8.5 KB and 1.1 KB, respectively, along with successive performances that satisfied web application data virtualization using the internet of things (IoT).