A Hybrid Sensor System for Indoor Air Quality Monitoring
- 1 May 2013
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
Abstract
Indoor air quality is important. It influences human productivity and health. Personal pollution exposure can be measured using stationary or mobile sensor networks, but each of these approaches has drawbacks. Stationary sensor network accuracy suffers because it is difficult to place a sensor in every location people might visit. In mobile sensor networks, accuracy and drift resistance are generally sacrificed for the sake of mobility and economy. We propose a hybrid sensor network architecture, which contains both stationary sensors (for accurate readings and calibration) and mobile sensors (for coverage). Our technique uses indoor pollutant concentration prediction models to determine the structure of the hybrid sensor network. In this work, we have (1) developed a predictive model for pollutant concentration that minimizes prediction error; (2) developed algorithms for hybrid sensor network construction; and (3) deployed a sensor network to gather data on the airflow in a building, which are later used to evaluate the prediction model and hybrid sensor network synthesis algorithm. Our modeling technique reduces sensor network error by 40.4% on average relative to a technique that does not explicitly consider the inaccuracies of individual sensors. Our hybrid sensor network synthesis technique improves personal exposure measurement accuracy by 35.8% on average compared with a stationary sensor network architecture.Keywords
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