A Comprehensive Real-Time Indoor Air-Quality Level Indicator

Jungho Kang and Kwang-Il Hwang
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Jungho Kang: Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Soongsil University, Seoul 156-743, Korea
Kwang-Il Hwang: Department of Embedded Systems Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon 402-772, Korea

Sustainability, 2016, vol. 8, issue 9, 1-15

Abstract: The growing concern about Indoor Air-Quality has accelerated the development of small, low-cost air-quality monitoring systems. These systems are capable of monitoring various indoor air pollutants in real time, notifying users about the current air-quality status and gathering the information to the central server. However, most Internet of Things (IoT)-based air-quality monitoring systems numerically present the sensed value per pollutant, making it difficult for general users to identify how polluted the air is. Therefore, in this paper, we first introduce a tiny air-quality monitoring system that we developed and, based on the system, we also test the applicability of the comprehensive Air-Quality Index (AQI), which is widely used all over the world, in terms of its capacity for a comprehensive indoor air-quality indication. We also develop design considerations for an IoT-based air-quality monitoring system and propose a real-time comprehensive indoor air-quality level indication method, which effectively copes with dynamic changes and is efficient in terms of processing and memory overhead.

Keywords: indoor air-quality; air-quality index; real-time air-quality monitoring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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