- Title
- An EPICS-in-IEEE initiative: learners of St Alban’s college and students of the University of Pretoria seek earth observation solutions through air-quality microsensing
- Creator
- Sinha, Saurabh, Bebwele, Phumudzo R., Mouton, Chris
- Subject
- Wireless sensor nodes, Sensor sink, Data terminal, Google cloud
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- uj:4719
- Identifier
- ISSN 978-1-4799-2402-8
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10210/11370
- Description
- This paper describes the design and implementation of a microsensor-based air-quality monitoring system intended for earth observations. Traditionally, air-quality monitoring systems are limited to centralized or static sites and thus obtain a limited amount of data for estimation of hazardous air pollutants. The system in this paper was designed to improve the shortcomings experienced by traditional air-quality monitoring systems. The system uses the wireless sensor network (WSNs) nodes to sense and transmit selected ambient air-quality parameters to a sensor sink, which relays these parameters to a data terminal where final data processing is completed and the user interface is situated. The project development team that was involved in the design comprised a senior undergraduate student at the University of Pretoria and a group of eight grade-11 secondary-school learners from St Alban's College, a boys’ high school situated in Pretoria, South Africa. While the undergraduate final-year student designed an analogous system by first principles, the secondary-school learners used educational air-quality microsensor off-the-shelf components. The learners used an Android-based input/output sensor node to communicate to a mobile phone, which managed the upload to a Google drive folder. As a secondary outcome, the educational air-quality microsensor systems developed through this undertaking would serve as an educational tool for improving the public understanding of air-quality, including a new national airquality act in South Africa. This project was completed as an endeavor of Engineering Projects In Community Service (EPICS) in IEEE.
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Rights
- © 2013, Authors, IEEE
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