Arduair: Air Quality Monitoring

Air pollution and quality monitoring is extremely important in today’s world as it has a direct impact on human health. Air pollution is on the rise due to a number of anthropogenic activities and its monitoring is of vital importance to mitigate certain measures to control it. In this paper we put forward a low-cost and low-power sensor based system for air quality monitoring. This sensor based system is in contrast to traditional stationary air pollution monitoring stations as we present the design, implementation and working of ArduAir, a small and portable measurement system that is based on low-cost sensors and microcontrollers and can be commercially used by a number of people. The data from the sensors on ArduAir can be collected from various places and be stored, plotted graphically and easily updated. Vital to the success of sensing applications is the high quality data from the sensors of ArduAir. The data collected by the sensors on ArduAir is then plotted in real-time on a computer and can be stored. Finally we compare the data from ArduAir of a region with the data of ‘Delhi Pollution Control Committee’, Kashmere Gate, Delhi.