Smart Air Quality Monitoring System with LoRaWAN

Nowadays, cities all over the globe are transforming into smart cities. Smart cities initiatives need to address environmental concerns such as air pollution to provide clean air. A scalable and cost-effective air monitoring system is imperative to monitor and control air pollution for smart city development. Air pollution has notable effects on the well-being of the population a whole, global atmosphere, and worldwide economy. This paper presents a scalable smart air quality monitoring system with low-cost sensors and long-range communication protocol. The sensors collect four parameters, temperature, humidity, dust and carbon dioxide in the air. The proposed end-to-end system has been implemented and deployed in Yangon, the business capital of Myanmar, as a case study since Jun 2018. The system allows the users to log in to an online dashboard to monitor the real-time status. In addition, based the collected air quality parameters for the past two months, a machine learning model has been trained to make predictions of parameters such that proactive actions can be taken to alleviate the impacts from air pollution.