Abstract—Air pollution monitoring is considered as a very complex task but nevertheless it is very important. The environmental concerns have been growing along with the development of human race and their population distribution. Various factors contributing air pollution are industrial, commercial, domestic activities, and transportation. Statistics show that among these sources, motorised transportation is the highest contributing air pollution in recent past especially in urban areas. Therefore, assessing quality of the ambient air for breathing time to time is very important to control further damage. Currently, to access air quality related data is limited. To overcome this, authors have designed and implemented an Air Quality Monitoring Instrument (AQMI) using solid state gas sensors and GPS module and integrated with the information management system. The AQMI is used to collect the air quality data for the selected routes in Chennai city. The data collected in 2013 and 2017 are analyzed and generated as air quality information management system. The benefits of a fully integrated system for air quality data would be the easy view, sort and analyse the data to give them meaning and make them applicable to real life. Air health conscious people could also take advantage of this to navigate through pollution free areas. Patients with air pollution related health problems would find these reports valuable to determine the less polluted routes. In the future, with the developments of miniaturization of instruments, these instruments may be worn like wrist watch and will be known the ambient air quality in real time wherever people go.

 

Index Terms—motorized vehicls, emissions, air pollution, health problems, gas sensors, real time mobile monitoring

Cite: Partheeban P., Prasad Raju H., Rani Hemamalini R., and Shanthini B., "Design and Implementation of Equipment for Air Quality Information Management System," Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 117-122, November 2018. doi: 10.12720/jait.9.4.117-122