IoT deployment for city scale air quality monitoring with Low-Power Wide Area Networks

Steven Johnston; Philip Basford; Florentin Bulot; Mihaela Apetroaie-Cristea; Gavin Foster; Matthew Loxham; Simon Cox

doi:10.1109/GIOTS.2018.8534554

IoT deployment for city scale air quality monitoring with Low-Power Wide Area Networks

Steven Johnston
, Philip Basford
, Florentin Bulot
, Mihaela Apetroaie-Cristea
, Gavin Foster
, Matthew Loxham
, Simon Cox

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Abstract

Air Quality (AQ) is a very topical issue for many cities and has a direct impact on the health of its citizens. We propose to investigate the air quality of a large UK city using low-cost Particulate Matter (PM) micro-sensors, and compare them with government operated air quality stations. In this pilot deployment we design and build six AQ IoT devices, each with four different low-cost PM sensors and deploy them at two locations within the city. These devices are equipped with LoRaWAN wireless network transceivers to test city scale Low-Power Wide-Area Network network coverage. We conclude that some low-cost PM sensors are viable for monitoring AQ and demonstrate that our device design can be used via LoRaWAN to facilitate more granular city coverage without limitations of network access. Based on these findings we intend to deploy a larger LoRaWAN enabled Air Quality sensor network deployment across the city.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2018 Global Internet of Things Summit (GIoTS)
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-5386-6451-3, 978-1-5386-6450-6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5386-6452-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/GIOTS.2018.8534554
Publication status	Published - 15 Nov 2018
Event	2018 Global Internet of Things Summit - Bilbao, Spain Duration: 4 Jun 2018 → 7 Jun 2018

Conference

Conference	2018 Global Internet of Things Summit
Abbreviated title	GIoTS
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Bilbao
Period	4/06/18 → 7/06/18

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

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NERC
NE/L002531/1
EPSRC
EP/P004024/1
BBSRC
BB/P011365/1

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Johnston, S, Basford, P, Bulot, F, Apetroaie-Cristea, M, Foster, G, Loxham, M & Cox, S 2018, IoT deployment for city scale air quality monitoring with Low-Power Wide Area Networks. in Proceedings of the 2018 Global Internet of Things Summit (GIoTS). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018 Global Internet of Things Summit, Bilbao, Spain, 4/06/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/GIOTS.2018.8534554

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IoT deployment for city scale air quality monitoring with Low-Power Wide Area Networks

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