HyperLocal Air Quality Monitoring for Smart Cities (HyLAQ)

ir pollution has become an increasing problem since the industrial revolution. It is claimed that 6.5 million people die annually due to exposure to poor air quality (AQ) (unenvironment.org, 2019). In the UK annually ~40,000 deaths/year are linked to air pollution and largely caused by traffic congestion. To combat this issue government is getting together to develop methods to measure the air pollutants to a high level of accuracy in urban environments. Moreover, air pollution contributes to a wide range of factors influencing human health and has strong links to socioeconomic status. HYLAQ is a 36-month Experimental Development Pilot project to turn existing light poles into smart IoT nodes by deployment of Air Quality Monitoring (AQM) sensors at hyperlocal street level for causality detection as a market disruptive innovative. This enables to measure air pollution accurately at street-level and to detect contributory factors (causes); therefore, councils can closely manage air pollution causes targeting the government’s Clean Air Framework.