Monitoring and Visualization of Air Pollutions on Construction Sites

Construction industry is considered as one of the major air pollutant emissions sources, such as NOx, PM, COx, SOx and so on. Those air pollutants are detrimental to the ambient air quality, and they can cause immediate and serious damage to the workers’ health. However, in current practices, the potential impacts are significantly underestimated and neglected. Therefore, this study is to create an affordable and portable IoT (Internet of Things)-based air pollution monitoring system with the low-cost microcontrollers and sensors to measure the air pollutants in an automated and real-time manner. With such system, construction professionals can assess the environmental impacts of the ongoing construction operations and track what pollutants the workforces are exposed to and take actions to protect workers from harms in a timely manner. Also, the proposed system can be extended to monitor other industry with the disturbing issue of air pollutions.

Faculty Supervisor:

Zhi Chen;Zhenhua Zhu

Student:

Partner:

Tianjin Chengjian University

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Environmental Science and Technology; Construction

University:

Concordia University

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