Performance Analysis of Green-Wall Infrastructure Using IoT Devices

Abstract

Urban populations grow consistently from year to year and their infrastructure has been developed rapidly. Due to population density and the rapid increase of the use of electronic applications, it is common to find the urban heat island effect in these areas where average temperatures have risen significantly. The changes in temperature of urban areas contribute to global warming and are believed to lead to unavoidable natural disasters. Green-wall infrastructure is a popular environmental-friendly method used to reduce the average temperature in urban areas by curbing the urban heat island effect and improving air-quality at the same time. However, a standard monitoring system is lacking as well as statistical data that depicts the efficiency of the green-wall method. This paper proposes to use the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud technologies to investigate the efficiency of the green wall system in reducing the average temperature of the urban infrastructure. Numerical analysis illustrates the effectiveness of the proposed IoT design in monitoring the performance of the green-wall method.