Monitoring Air Quality in Urban Areas Using a Vehicle Sensor Network (VSN) Crowdsensing Paradigm

• DOI: 10.3390/rs14215576
• Publication Date: 2022-11-07T08:02:22Z
• Authors: Paolo Diviacco; Massimiliano Iurcev; Rodrigo José Carb...; Nikolas Potleca; Alberto Viola; Mihai Burca; Alessandro Busato
• Keywords: Participatory Sensing; Citizen Science

We present new advances in monitoring particulate matter (PM) urban areas within a participatory vehicle sensor network (VSN) that exploits the use of multiple mobile low-cost IoT devices. These devices send geolocated PM measurements to an IT infrastructure and enabled us reconstruct, real time, spatial temporal distribution pollutants study area web-based environment. The newly acquired data were integrated with independent reference available from governmental environmental agencies. deployed city Trieste (Italy), since beginning 2021, help several volunteers local transportation authority (Trieste Trasporti). By analysing data, we delineate lower air quality identify possible causes these anomalies. able define belt outside center where enhanced concentration occurs due higher flux vehicular traffic tends jam there. Overall, our results demonstrate this approach can be helpful supporting planning also stimulate community reflect on how they improve live by reducing private cars favour more widespread public usage.