Abstract
Air quality is important for the protection of human health, the environment and our cultural heritage and it is an issue that will acquire increased significance in the future due to the adverse effects of climate change. Thus, it is important to not simply monitor air quality, but to make information immediately available to those responsible for monitoring the networks, to policy/decision makers, but also to the general population. Moreover, the development of information technologies over the last couple of decades has allowed the proliferation of real-time pollution monitoring. The work presented herein concerns the development of an effective way of monitoring environmental parameters using dedicated software. It offers a complete suite of applications that support environmental data collection management and reporting for air quality and associated meteorology. It combines modern technologies for the proper monitoring of air quality networks, which can consist of one or more measuring stations. Innovatively, it also focuses on how to effectively present the relevant information, utilizing modern technologies, such as cloud and mobile applications, to network engineers, policy/decision managers, and to the general public at large. It also has the capability of notifying appropriate personnel in the event of failures, overruns or abnormal values. The system, in its current configuration, handles information from six networks that include over 55 air pollution monitoring stations that are located throughout Greece. This practical application has shown that the system can achieve high data availability rates, even higher than 99% during the year.
Highlights
The AirDMS system is being continuously improved and expanded, in its current configuration, it handles information from 6 networks that include over 55 air pollution monitoring stations that are located throughout Greece
Air quality monitoring plays an important role in the protection of human health
It is expected to be of even greater importance in the future, due to the adverse effects on air quality that will be brought about by climate change
Summary
The development of human societies and the accompanying growth in the consumption of natural resources, especially over the past couple of centuries, has given rise to a multitude of human-induced environmental problems. The manuscript presented provides an effective way of monitoring air quality measurement stations through the development of a dedicated software, AirDMS [47] This dedicated software comprises of a set of tools that supports the collection and reporting of air quality and associated meteorological data. The AirDMS system is being continuously improved and expanded, in its current configuration, it handles information from 6 networks that include over 55 air pollution monitoring stations that are located throughout Greece Through this practical application, it has been shown that it can allow network operators to increase the availability rate of measurements even to rates greater than 99%. It can provide a valuable tool for the timely and correct information of relevant technical personnel, policy/decision-making authorities, and, for the general public at large
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