Monitoring Air Pollution: An IoT Application

The recent years have witnessed increase in air pollution levels throughout the world. Long term exposure to pollutants in air leads to chronic heart and lung diseases in biological organisms. Therefore monitoring the air pollution has become important. Increase in the human population, usage of fossil fuels, industrialization, vehicles, etc. directly affect the air pollution level and in turn the human health. The air quality level can be monitored using the Internet of Things (IoT). It is a network where uniquely identified things are connected to transfer information and communicates using the Internet protocol. This paper proposes an IoT based air pollution monitoring system and gives an overview of the hardware setup of the proposed system.