Towards an Environmental Measurement Cloud: Delivering Pollution Awareness to the Public

Federico Domínguez, Samuel Dauwe, Nguyen The Cuong, Dimitri Cariolaro, Abdellah Touhafi, Bart Dhoedt, Dick Botteldooren and Kris Steenhaut

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2014, vol. 10, issue 3, 541360

Abstract: Geosensor networks and sensor webs are two technologies widely used for determining our exposure to pollution levels and ensuring that this information is publicly available. However, most of these networks are independent from each other and often designed for specific domains, hindering the integration of sensor data from different sources. We contributed to the integration of several environmental sensor networks in the context of the IDEA project. The objective of this project was to measure noise and air quality pollution levels in urban areas in Belgium using low-cost sensors. This paper presents the IDEA Environmental Measurement Cloud as a proof-of-concept Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) cloud platform that integrates environmental sensor networks with a sensor web. Our DaaS platform implements a federated two-layer architecture to loosely couple together sensor networks deployed over a wide geographical area with web services. It offers several data access, discovery, and visualization services to the public while serving as a scientific tool for noise pollution research. After one year of operation, it hosts approximately 6.5 TB of environmental data and offers to the public near real-time noise pollution measurements from over 40 locations in Belgium.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1155/2014/541360

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