Intelligent controlling of indoor air quality based on remote monitoring platform by considering building environment

Abstract

Air pollution issues and particularly fine particulate matters are worthy of great concerns as a consequence of crowded factories and heavy traffic. Exposure to the fine particulate matters (PMs) will harm the human health and even cause irreversible damages, which calls for effective monitoring methods. It is necessary to bring in a monitoring platform with sufficient mobility for the places where monitoring stations are not convenient to install. A mobile and portable monitoring platform based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is developed by combining promoted sensor board and specific communication module in this paper. Moreover, the air quality monitored by UAV-platform will generate important information for the controlling of indoor air quality for indoor environment in the buildings. To meet the indoor inhabitants' requirements of health and comfort, a fuzzy control method is proposed in this paper to control the actuators of air cleaner and ventilator. With a good coordination, an intelligent environment which meets the comfort level with good indoor air quality (IAQ) can be achieved.