User Configurable and Portable Air Pollution Monitoring System for Smart Cities Using IoT

Abstract

Pollution occurs at an unprecedented scale around the globe. Among various types of pollution, air pollution is a major threat to life and ecosystem as a whole. This paper presents the application of the Internet of Things to model a smart environment by developing a user-configurable air pollution monitoring device. This user configurable device monitors air pollution, collects location coordinates and send the collected data along with the location to an online Internet of Things platform called ThingSpeak. The Public can make use of the information in this platform. This device consists of sensors, Raspberry Pi 3, and GPS module. User configurability is achieved by developing a Bluetooth-based Android application thereby making the device more flexible.