Review of urban computing in air quality management as smart city service: An integrated IoT, AI, and cloud technology perspective

Kaginalkar, Akshara; Kumar, Shashi Bhushan; Gargava, Prashant; Niyogi, Dev

doi:10.1016/j.uclim.2021.100972

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“…The analyzed papers prove that data-driven smart cities have a potential to enable emission reductions and climate change mitigation [ 73 ]. Therefore, data and data-based solutions should be used to tackle climate issues such as transportation efficiency and changes in travel behavior [ 71 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Fortunately, AI enables newer methods of urban data acquisition using IoT, mobile phones, crowd sourcing, and social media [ 73 ]. The case studies analysis proves the importance of the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ (4IR) technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, artificial intelligence, smartphones, and cloud computing, which are influencing urban development as they allow air quality monitoring, following urban flows, and improving quality of life by overcoming communication barriers [ 73 ]. Even blockchain frameworks are used to shape people-oriented smart mobility systems [ 74 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Smart mobility is therefore largely permeated by ICT, used in both backward and forward applications, to support the optimization of traffic flows and also to collect citizens’ opinions about livability in cities or the quality of local public transport services [ 70 ]. Additionally, AI-based solutions allow real-time mitigation governance [ 73 ], which can lead to more efficient public transportation models and to changes in the mobility behavior of urban dwellers. Surely, the new possibilities of connectivity; exceptional processing power; and the growing role of emerging technologies such as AI, IoT, robotics, and self-driving vehicles will advance intelligent mobility in the coming years [ 76 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Artificial-intelligence-based applications are becoming meaningful tools for disaster prediction and management [ 78 ]. When analyzing selected case studies, we found AI as supportive in the following aspects: In terms of improving the urban microclimate and responding to the challenge of urban heat islands [ 73 ]; In analyses of major environmental threats, e.g., flooding [ 84 , 85 ], heat waves, and air quality [ 73 , 88 ]; In the enhancement of efficient land use management [ 89 ] and emission reduction and decarbonization [ 88 , 100 ]. …”

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“…As is well understood, cloud services provide cost-effective options to access, process, and disseminate data and information in real-time [49,50]. For AirDMS, the cloud-based system consists of four parts: (a) the web-based system, which displays real time data on a 5-min basis on the web site, (b) the Remote Communication System, which can collect or provide data in an automated way to authorized users, (c) the AirDMS Service, which provides the diagnostic measurements of the analyzers and stations' operating status (e.g., internal temperature, current voltage, door status), and (d) the AirDMS Alerts.…”

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Cloud-Based Decision Support System for Air Quality Management

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Air quality is important for the protection of human health, the environment and our cultural heritage and it is an issue that will acquire increased significance in the future due to the adverse effects of climate change. Thus, it is important to not simply monitor air quality, but to make information immediately available to those responsible for monitoring the networks, to policy/decision makers, but also to the general population. Moreover, the development of information technologies over the last couple of decades has allowed the proliferation of real-time pollution monitoring. The work presented herein concerns the development of an effective way of monitoring environmental parameters using dedicated software. It offers a complete suite of applications that support environmental data collection management and reporting for air quality and associated meteorology. It combines modern technologies for the proper monitoring of air quality networks, which can consist of one or more measuring stations. Innovatively, it also focuses on how to effectively present the relevant information, utilizing modern technologies, such as cloud and mobile applications, to network engineers, policy/decision managers, and to the general public at large. It also has the capability of notifying appropriate personnel in the event of failures, overruns or abnormal values. The system, in its current configuration, handles information from six networks that include over 55 air pollution monitoring stations that are located throughout Greece. This practical application has shown that the system can achieve high data availability rates, even higher than 99% during the year.

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