AirSense: Opportunistic crowd-sensing based air quality monitoring system for smart city

Abstract

Citizens are exposed to air pollutants both indoors and outdoors due to their activities, which may result in a variety of health effects. In this paper, we present AirSense, an opportunistic crowd-sensing based air quality monitoring system, aimed at collecting and aggregating sensor data to monitor air pollution in the vicinity and the city. We introduce a light weight, low power and low cost air quality monitoring device (AQMD) and demonstrate how AQMD and smart phone devices in a crowd collaboratively (through offloading) gather and share data of interest to the cloud. In cloud, collected data will be analyzed and an aggregated view will be generated for providing an air pollution heat map of the city. End user can view both the neighborhood (local) air quality and AQImap (air quality index map) of the city on his/her smartphone.