Cyber Physical System for Roadside Vehicular Emission Monitoring
Noor Habib, Department of Computer Systems Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Pakistan.
Khurram S. Khattak, Department of Computer Systems Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Pakistan.
Zawar H, Khan, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Pakistan.
Corresponding Author:
Khurram S. Khattak (khurram.s.khattak@gmail.com)
Abstract:
Worldwide, the transportation sector’s share in greenhouse gas (GHG) and carbon dioxide emissions stands at 29% and 23% respectively. Making the transport sector a major contributor of ambient air pollution, resulting in 6.5 million premature deaths in 2016. As such, a real time and low cost solution has been proposed for monitoring roadside vehicular emissions. Not only for public awareness but enabling traffic engineers to quantify different road segments according to vehicular emissions. The insights can be instrumental in efficient road network management. The proposed solution is capable of measuring eleven vehicular related pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, ozone, carbon dioxide, ammonia, particulate matter (PM2.5, PM10), temperature, rain, relative humidity and traffic noise. For achieving and analytics, sensed pollutant parameters are transmitted to a cloud platform ‘ThingSpeak’ through GSM SIM900. Proposed system was field tested for over four days, transmitting sensed parameters with 97.2% accuracy.
Keywords:
Cyber Physical Systems; Arduino Mega, Vehicular Emissions; Ambient Pollution Monitoring; Cloud Computing