Engineering of New Generation Air Monitoring Systems (NGAMS) (ePub)

In Engineering of New Generation Air Monitoring Systems: A Practitioners' Approach the authors share their practical experience and theoretical knowledge in building small and affordable sensing equipment that can dramatically enhance spatial resolution of air pollution data acquisition. The book introduction starts with discussing the impact of air pollutants on health. Gives an overview of ambient air pollutants and related regulatory codes. New Generation Air Monitoring Systems (NGAMSs) are introduced and how they are to complement Air Quality Management Systems is discussed, in addition, monitoring modes (continuous, discrete, fixed, mobile, etc.) are covered. Chapter 2 discusses the design choices for these systems and their development processes. The different components and their interfacing mechanisms are also described. Chapter3 describes the main components of the next generation air quality monitoring motes and discusses the factors that determine their choice. Chapter 4 covers the common wireless communication technologies used in the projects including LoRa, and Low-Energy Bluetooth. Chapter 5 covers techniques that deal with collection, storage, and access of sensory data streams. Chapter 6 – deals with the challenges of managing the data, making it meaningful and useful to various end users. Chapter 7 focuses on computational intelligent techniques to build forecasting models. Chapter 8 shares the best practices for implementing NGAMSs. Engineers developing air monitoring systems will benefit from the numerous examples and descriptive diagrams. The discussion on data management and visualization will help researchers to select the best options for their project.Provides insights into the new paradigm in air pollution sensing systemsPractical approach including examples and descriptive diagramsProvides tools for data collection, processing, management, and conversion to information and knowledgeGuidance on integration with Air Quality Management SystemsCovers communication technologies like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, 4G/5G, LoRa, and Low-Energy Bluetooth