Smart SCADA system for urban air pollution monitoring

Abstract

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. There are a number of different types of monitoring stations for checking air quality levels in urban environments. These monitoring stations usually just perform data acquisition of the measured values from the sensors and store them in the database. The processing of the measured results as well as the statistical analysis is mainly done in other places where the data come from various communication systems. Acquisition of the measured data is commonly done on-line while the processing and statistical analysis is performed off-line. As opposed to these measurement systems, this implemented device enables the acquisition and statistical processing of the measured data in real time and the results are instantly available to all users. The system indicates the air pollutants using the ARMA model. The transmission of information in the realized smart SCADA system is done by the Modbus protocol using shared variables which gives the whole system a stronger hierarchical structure.