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With the advent of better wireless technology and an increase in smartphone usage, a new mode of data collection (a.k.a. mobile IoT) has emerged. Smartphones are equipped with different types of sensors, which aid in the collection of heterogeneous real-time mobile IoT data. In this paper, we develop a smart mobile application to assist in overall air quality monitoring, and consequently to improve public health. We design a distributed environment and air quality monitoring application leveraging mobile IoT devices. The proposed mobile application allows users to submit and view real-time environment (precipitation) and air quality (particle matter and ozone) information in their vicinity. Furthermore, the application provides users opportunities to view historical reports of any location of interest. We perform experiments using our developed application while considering various real-life scenarios.
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The authors would like to thank Marquis A. Bryant and Marleak J. Barriner for their contribution. This work was supported in part by NSF grant OIA-1655740 and an ASPIRE grant from the Office of the Vice President for Research at the University of South Carolina.
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Tasnim, S., Ferguson, A., Gordon, B., Gordon, C., Ahmed, K., Mkpong-Ruffin, I. (2021). A Smart Environment Monitoring Application for Mobile Internet of Things. In: Selvaraj, H., Chmaj, G., Zydek, D. (eds) Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Systems Engineering, ICSEng 2020. ICSEng 2020. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 182. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65796-3_21
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