Air Quality – Page 2

Reducing 40% polluted run-off from a shooting land area with Libelium IoT sensor platform

Pollution from runoff water is a major problem in urban areas because it has been shown to contain the same types of pollutants found in urban wastewater.

IoT technology to track, forecast and reduce pollution in European Cities

Libelium involved in European project aiming to predict and reduce emissions utilising open source philosophy.

Smart Parking IoT platform to increase the efficiency of electric car recharging station

To speed up and streamline smart services, an Italian technological company focused on intelligent solutions, Elmec Informatica, has fully automated its headquarters in Burnello (Varese, Italy) with the IoT, in association with its partner, Everynet. A smart parking management system has been included among other smart building applications.

Libelium helps to reduce noise pollution in the city of Cuenca (Ecuador)

In the city of Cuenca have decided to reduce the acoustic pollution to offer a better to live city to their citizens.

Preventing asthma attacks in children with a sensor network that monitors air quality conditions in play areas

Asthma is one of the most frequent causes of absenteeism in schools. This disease, that affects the respiratory tract, can alter sleep, play and other activities necessary for proper child growth.

3D air quality modeling with sensor drones in Greece

Air pollution in Greece has been a serious environmental problem in the last decades. Rapid and disorganized urbanization of cities, lack of infrastructure and an increasing motor vehicle fleet in urban regions were the main causes of air quality deterioration in the country. Antonios Koutroumpas, student of the <a href="https://www.tuc.gr/el/archi" title="Technical University of Crete" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Technical University of Crete</a>, developed his Bachelor’s Thesis in Production Systems with the title: “Use of UAV (Unnamed Aerial Vehicles) for 3D visualization of air pollutants in urban areas,” in which a small drone equipped with Libelium’s wireless sensor platform <a href="https://www.libelium.com/iot-products/waspmote/" title="Waspmote">Waspmote</a> was introduced for in-situ data acquisition. <a href="https://www.libelium.com/libeliumworld/success-stories/3d-air-quality-modeling-with-sensor-drones-in-greece/" title="Read more">Read more</a>.

Balearic Islands to become a smart tourist destination by expanding IoT sensor networks

The environmental report of ESPO (The European Sea Ports Organisation) for 2018 shows that air quality remains the main priority of European ports. Aware of this, the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands</a> has been working hard since 2016 to also know the level of air quality, capacity, alignment with the Environmental Policy of the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands.

Drones, Sensors and Blockchain for water quality control in the Volga river to promote trustworthy data and transparency

In Russia, approximately 70% of drinking water comes from surface, while the rest comes from groundwater. Unfortunately, water pollution is a major issue in this country, with more than 10 million Russians currently lacking access to quality drinking water. According to the Russian regulatory bodies, around 35 to 60% of total reserves of drinking water do not meet sanitary standards. This fact favors the proliferation of health issues in many cities and villages across the country, as only 8% of the wastewater is correctly treated before being returned to the waterways.

New Weather Station Sensors integrated in Libelium’s IoT platform perform maximum accuracy

Libelium has developed a project to test the accuracy of weather stations that includes its IoT platform in comparison with the professional station of AEMET. In order to do this, Libelium's engineering team installed two <a href="https://www.libelium.com/iot-products/plug-sense/" title="Plug & Sense!">Plug & Sense!</a> nodes in the <a href="http://www.cusvaldespartera.es/" title="CUS Zaragoza" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sustainable Urbanism Center of Zaragoza</a> (Spain) requesting permission from AEMET to carry out the measurements in the same location and under the same conditions as its reference station. The results obtained in the comparative study show that the station behaves in parallel and with the same precision as the official AEMET meteorological station, both in terms of wind speed and direction and in terms of accumulated precipitation parameters. <a href="https://www.libelium.com/libeliumworld/success-stories/new-weather-station-sensors-integrated-in-libeliums-iot-platform-perform-maximum-accuracy/" title="Read more">Read more</a>.

EU project uses Libelium sensors to monitor ozone levels in volunteer homes

Ozone is one of the major pollutants in Europe, excessive exposure to ground-level ozone is estimated to cause about 20,000 premature deaths per year in Europe, according to the European Environment Agency.

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