Title :
Air quality control for health care centres. The application of an intelligent distributed system
Author :
Di Lecce, Valerio ; Amato, A. ; Martines, C. ; di Bari, P. ; Dario, R.
Author_Institution :
DIASS, Taranto, Italy
Abstract :
Aim of this paper is to present an intelligent distributed monitoring system designed to monitor the air quality in specific indoor environments. The proposed architecture is very flexible and the used design principles can be applied to various indoor and outdoor environments. In this work the authors describe the features of this system tuned for monitoring the air quality in a healthcare center. The system is based on a set of low cost sensors equipped with a communication module. These transponders are able to: measure various environmental parameters, compute various algorithms and communicate with a central server or other transponders. A multi agent system is used to handle various aspects of the monitoring system such as: data integration, data analysis, user centered interfaces, etc.
Keywords :
air pollution control; control engineering computing; health care; intelligent sensors; medical control systems; multi-agent systems; air quality control; data analysis; data integration; environmental parameter; health care centre; indoor environment; intelligent distributed monitoring system; low cost sensor; multiagent system; user centered interface; Atmospheric modeling; Cities and towns; Humidity; Intelligent systems; Medical services; Meteorology; Quality control; Soil; Temperature; Thermal pollution; air quality monitoring; component; monitoring system; multi agent system; transponder;
Conference_Titel :
Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems, 2009. EESMS 2009. IEEE Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Crema
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4847-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4848-7
DOI :
10.1109/EESMS.2009.5341321
