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Extending Urban Air Quality Maps Beyond the Coverage of a Mobile Sensor Network: Data Sources, Methods, and Performance Evaluation

Marjovi, Ali  
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Arfire, Adrian  
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Martinoli, Alcherio  
2017
Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks
International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN)

Targeting the problem of generating high-resolution air quality maps for cities, we leverage four different sources of data: (i) in-situ air quality measurements produced by our mobile sensor network deployed on public transportation vehicles, (ii) explanatory air-quality and meteorological variables obtained from two static monitoring stations, (iii) land-use data of the city, and (iv) traffic statistics. We propose two novel approaches for estimating the targeted pollutant level at desired time-location pairs, extending also to areas of the city that are beyond the coverage of our mobile sensor network. The first is a log-linear regression model which is built over a virtual dependency graph based on land-use data. The second is a deep learning framework that automatically captures the dependencies of the data based on autoencoders. We have evaluated the two proposed approaches against three canonical modeling techniques considering metrics of coefficient of determination (R-squared), root mean square error (RMSE), and the fraction of predictions within a factor of two of observations (FAC2). Using more than 45 million real measurements in the models, the results show consistently superior performance in respect to the canonical techniques.

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conference paper
Author(s)
Marjovi, Ali  
Arfire, Adrian  
Martinoli, Alcherio  
Date Issued

2017

Published in
Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks
Start page

12

End page

23

Subjects

Wireless sensor networks

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Mobile WSN

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Air quality modeling

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Deep learning

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN)

Uppsala, Sweden

February 20-22, 2017

Available on Infoscience
January 18, 2017
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