Design and implementation of IoT based environment pollution monitoring system: A case study of Iraq

Abstract

Abstract Researches confirm the existence of widespread pollution in Iraq, where a large number of citizens suffer from symptoms related to environmental pollutants. This is accompanied by the lack of an integrated monitoring system that provides wide-scale, real-time monitoring of air pollution for pollutants (Particulate Matter (PM), Sulfur Dioxide (SO2), Ground-Level Ozone (O3), Carbon Monoxide (CO), and Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), ionizing radiation). In this paper, an integrated system was designed and implemented to meet the requirements of air pollution monitoring in Iraq on a wide-scale and provide its results in real-time to the end-users in community service as a significant step towards smart cities. Distributed computing concepts and design patterns were used to realize the system in the form of web services along with the embedded sensing units. Where the readings from the former are sent in real-time to the later to be aggregated and analysed in database systems. Reporting services are run on the data in web-services to inform the citizens with the air quality, radioactively polluted areas, and provide real-time alerts and recommendations to those with respiratory diseases.