A survey of wireless sensor network based air pollution monitoring systems

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 31392-31427

  Yi, Wei Ying ^a   Lo, Kin Ming ^a   Mak, Terrence ^b   Leung, Kwong Sak ^a   Leung, Yee ^a   Meng, Mei Ling ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air pollution monitoring; High spatio temporal resolution; Low cost ambient sensor; Real time monitoring; Wireless sensor network (WSN)

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; CRASHWORTHINESS; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MEMS; MONITORING; NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS; POLLUTION; POLLUTION DETECTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SANITARY SEWERS;

AIR POLLUTION MONITORING; AMBIENT SENSORS; HUMAN PERSONAL EXPOSURE; MICRO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM (MEMS); REAL TIME MONITORING; SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; STATIC SENSOR NETWORKS; VEHICLE SENSOR NETWORKS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

AIR POLLUTANT; GAS; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; DEVICES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAS; HONG KONG; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROCEDURES; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GASES; HONG KONG; PARTICULATE MATTER; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84949871274     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s151229859     Document Type: Review

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