A Low-Cost Intelligent Mobile Indoor Environment Monitoring System

Abstract

Indoor air pollution is a serious problem that harms people's health. Indoor environment monitoring system could make contribution to detecting and improving indoor air quality. However, besides the high cost, the existing air quality detectors also get tricky problems with real-time monitoring and autonomous mobile which lead to a low practicability in most cases. Therefore this paper put forward an intelligent mobile indoor environment monitoring system based on Arduino's control using various sensors to detect air quality. The results showed that the data detected by our system got high positive correlation property with data from standard technical detecting apparatus and no obvious differences appeared. The system was more advanced and effective which could lead to great application value.

Smart Indoor Air Quality Monitoring System

“…Generally, people thinks indoors are less polluted than outdoors. But, according to a study indoor pollutants are two to four more than outdoors [18], [19].It is becoming an invisible killer to human health [20]. Thus, this issue of indoor air pollution needs to be addressed.…”

“…There are various Indoor Air Quality Monitoring Systems proposed by different authors.But few of them are mobile and providing real-time results. One such mobile and autonomous IAQM system is presented in [18] where two chemicals factors CO, PM 2.5 and two physical factors temperature and humidity are measured and achieved effective test results. Similarly, in [50]mobile and portable IAQM system is presented for detecting particulate matter-PM 2.5, PM 10 and gaseous pollutants such as CO, SO 2 , NO 2 and O 3 .…”