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The concept of quality of life is used as a measure of the welfare of a society, highlighting the relationship between the environment and health, mainly associated with pollution. Hence the importance of monitoring and communicating its results, in a timely manner, to the community. But often the last part of the process fail, there is a lack of communication between data, information and community...
Air and Water are the most important resources of the planet that we use daily for sustaining life. Air quality affects all living creatures, from trees and plants to animals and people. Air quality, especially in the trend of more industrialized cities and with a rapid growing population of cars, is degrading. Continuous monitoring allows the national administrations to take measures in order to...
The change of ecosystem and the surrounding atmosphere by different forms of pollutants (Chemicals and energies) are called environmental pollution. Pollution affects the climate most. The issue of environmental pollution and climate change has become an international concern due to their affects to the physical and biological entities of the environment. In this paper, the main objective is to find...
With the problem of water pollution is more and more prominent, online measurement of various parameters has been a basic requirement for the sake of water quality protection. However, the online monitoring equipment is very expensive, which hampereds the scope and effect of monitoring. Thus, soft measurement technology in industrial sewage which using neural networks and data driven method can be...
Water resource monitoring is very essential in recent years since many factors pollute the water resource and ecosystems, now they are facing increasing threats. Surface gliders are small, reusable autonomous underwater vehicles designed to glide through the water surface while measuring pH, oil spill and other parameters. Here it deals with an accuracy-aware diffusion process using surface gliders...
The global food logistics play an important role in our daily lives. Fruits, meat and other food products are transported all over the world. This fact comes with challenges which have to be solved for a sustainable and economical food supply. For example, fruits farmed in South America are usually transported by cargo ships over 21 days to Europe. During this long trip, the fruits could already start...
This paper presents AquApp, an information system for a collaborative sensor network. AquApp deploys information collected from the water bodies of the city of Cartagena. The goal is to monitor the water bodies surrounding the city and to establish the current state of the sea. The system can determine the degree of pollution, water levels and environmental conditions of marine fauna and flora through...
The consequences of the exploitation of natural resources are evident in the current bad environmental conditions. For this reason, governments have implemented realtime environmental measurement systems and they have applied strategies focused to restrict the physical activities and avoid futures health problem. Even, in critical cases, the governments take measures to stop the movement of motor...
Protection of the natural water resources becomes more and more important issue. Usual way to deal with this problem is to build on-site monitoring station capable for independent measurement of water quality parameters where all the measurement equipment is installed and where all measurements are done. But, in this case a dedicated person is needed which on regular basis will collect the data from...
A practical monitoring approach in marinas is considered to be appropriate for promotion of the Marina Sustainable Development Concept (MSDC) with regards to monitoring of water quality. This approach provides some concept and strategies for the better planning and management of MSDC.
Air pollution is one of the most important factor that can affect the quality of citizen life in the urban environment. Consequently, monitoring air pollution is currently a critical issue that needs to be addressed for enhancing the well being of citizens. This paper proposes a data analysis engine, based on business intelligence methodologies and open technologies, to support different targeted...
In the world of water resource management, commercially available hydroclimatic monitoring systems are large, expensive, and disconnected. The current technology is inaccessible to smaller community groups, citizen scientists, teachers, and even university researchers needing to collect real time or high density data. The HydroSense project aims to build an open-source hardware and software framework...
The development of a surface water monitoring network is a critical element in the assessment and protection of water quality. We developed a prototype of easy to install technology by which the different surface water (e.g. rivers, lakes) quality indicators can be measured. The project pilot area is the Sajó river with 5 monitoring station. Thanks to the modular design of the sensor-tube, the equipment...
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) plays an important role in the application of environmental monitoring. Mostly air pollution being major issues as cause many hazardous effects on ecological system of human being. Therefore the need of monitoring air pollution around the city and the public transport buses and cars are very important problem today. Basically, environmental monitoring methods have difficulties...
Wireless Sensor Networks carry a high risk of being compromised, as their deployments are often unattended, physically accessible and the wireless medium is difficult to secure. Malicious data injections take place when the sensed measurements are maliciously altered to trigger wrong and potentially dangerous responses. When many sensors are compromised, they can collude with each other to alter the...
A Non-dispersive Infrared (NDIR) sensor for carbon monoxide (CO) was used to investigate the effects of physical and chemical factors on the accuracy of the sensor. The sensor's measurement range was 0.05 – 200 ppm. It was found that the measurement error of the NDIR at 50 ppm of CO was the lowest. Moreover, the increase of concentrations of the interferential gases (CO2, NO, NO2) led to the decrease...
In the article the principles of the mobile system of local urban area noise pollution monitoring are investigated. The author substantiates the block diagram of the system, including the channel of information on the acoustic noise (measuring channel), reception of meteorological information channel (correction channel), a computing device. The features of the construction of channels and computing...
The increasing awareness of negative health effects has raised significantly the importance of monitoring the levels of particulate matter which compose adverse respiratory problems particularly in the industrial belt. However the traditional particulate measuring instruments being bulky and expensive, prevent spatially deployed continuous air quality monitoring. This paper focuses on continuous monitoring...
Microwave radiometry is a novel method for monitoring contamination levels on high voltage insulators. The microwave radiometer described measures energy emitted from the contamination layer and could provide a safe, reliable, contactless monitoring method that is effective under dry conditions. The design of the system has focused on optimizing accuracy, stability and sensitivity using a relatively...
With the raise of global concerns about climate changes and pollution in general, water monitoring became a major topic of interest in geospatial applications. There are a significant number of parameters that need to be monitored in a watershed, and varieties of sensors are used for this purpose. In modern sensor networks, sensors are not just simple data collectors, but also actuators that need...
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