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The significance of air quality monitoring for analyzing impact on public health is growing worldwide. A crucial part of smart city development includes deployment of suitable air pollution sensors at critical locations. Note that there are various air quality measurement instruments, ranging from expensive reference stations that provide accurate data to low-cost sensors that provide less accurate air quality measurements. In this research, we use a combination of sensors and monitors, which we call hybrid instruments, and focus on optimal placement of such instruments across a region. The objective of the problem is to maximize a satisfaction function that quantifies the weighted closeness of different regions to the places where such hybrid instruments are placed (here weights for different regions are quantified in terms of the relative population density and relative PM 2.5 concentration). Note that there can be several constraints such as those on budget, the minimum number of reference stations to be placed, or the set of important regions where at least one sensor should be placed. We develop two algorithms to solve this problem. The first one is a genetic algorithm that is a metaheuristic and that works on the principles of evolution. The second one is a greedy algorithm that selects the locally best choice in each iteration. We test these algorithms on different regions from India with varying sizes and other characteristics such as population distribution, PM 2.5 emissions, or available budget. The insights obtained from this paper can be used to quantitatively place reference stations and sensors in large cities rather than using ad hoc procedures or rules of thumb. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Declining air quality is highly ignored and very common form of degradation of the environment in nations that are both developed and developing. There are several contaminants in the air that have been identified in various studies on air pollution. The crucial parameters of all air pollutants are gaseous and particle pollution. The present study was undertaken to estimate the quality of ambient air in Chandrapur district, Maharashtra state of India. In this paper, an effort has been made to study the standing and trend of Sulphur dioxide (SO2), Oxides of Nitrogen (NOx), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Ozone (O3), Ammonia (NH3), Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter i.e.; PM10, PM2.5, toxic pollutants i.e.; lead, arsenic, nickel, benzo [a] pyarene and benzene and hydrocarbons. The results clearly show that, all parameters of ambient air quality monitoring values were some shown slightly below permissible limit. The ambient air quality monitoring data show that the Chandrapur district has substantial air pollution concerns in terms of SO2, NOx, PM, and other air pollutants. However, after comparing these values with NAAQS levels, the yearly averages of these air pollutants have been found to be below than the NAAQS levels. However, without effective mitigation measures, the concentrations of these pollutants will rise at quite alarming rate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to survive, mankind needs air. The quality of life depends on the purity of the air we breathe in. Hazardous pollutants are stirred up in our environment by various activities everyday. In a developing country like India, which has huge population, protecting public health is important. In general, air quality is measured using the air quality index, which records the pollutants level in the air. These recordings are to be mentioned across various places, to know about the air quality level. The advancement of the recent artificial intelligence can be replaced by the human efforts and to automate the system in flowless manner. Hence, an effort has been taken in this paper, by proposing a framework of predicting the air quality seasonally using regularized combinational LSTM (REG-CLSTM). For an efficient air quality level prediction with an improved error rate, time, and accuracy, the study has implemented Reg-CLSTM with a large amount of real-time dataset. To improvise the comprehensiveness and the potentiality of the proposed model, the significant feature is extracted by the rough set-wrapper method. The significant challenge is to provide a seasonal limit range for each considered pollutant in place of a generalized range partition. Aiming at this problem, the proposed model is able to identify the highest concerning pollutants occurrence in individual seasons. Through this study, pyramid learning-based hybridized deep learning framework is developed which can play a crucial role in warning the policy maker to reduce the activities that instigate air pollution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]