Work addresses long-term accuracy issues in IoT air quality sensors.
problem Limited accuracy of IoT air quality sensors in long-term field deployments.
method Adaptive machine learning strategies for network calibration.
result Prolongs the validity of multisensor calibration models for continuous learning.
Surveying low-cost sensors for air quality monitoring and calibration.
problem Limited spatial resolution due to expensive environmental monitoring stations.
method Low-cost sensors with machine learning for calibration.
result Machine learning improves sensor accuracy over time.
AirRL uses RL to infer urban air quality from selected stations.
problem Inferring fine-grained urban air quality from limited monitoring stations.
method Reinforcement learning model with a dynamic station selector and air quality regressor.
result AirRL achieves highest performance in air quality inference experiments.
Paper uses Gaussian Processes to monitor air quality in Kampala.
problem Monitoring air pollution in cities with limited sensor coverage.
method Gaussian Processes for nowcasting and forecasting air pollution.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of Gaussian Processes in air quality monitoring.
Low-cost sensors improve air quality prediction accuracy significantly.
problem Improving air quality monitoring networks with affordable sensors.
method Developed a high-resolution air quality prediction engine using low-cost sensors and official data.
result The use of low-cost sensors improves prediction accuracy by 25% and 15% for PM2.5 and PM10 respectively in densely monitored areas.
Inferring air quality from a limited number of observations is an essential task for monitoring and controlling air pollution. Existing inference methods typically use low spatial resolution data collected by fixed monitoring stations and infer the concentration of air pollutants using additional types of data, e.g., m…
The economic and social impact of poor air quality in towns and cities is increasingly being recognised, together with the need for effective ways of creating awareness of real-time air quality levels and their impact on human health. With local authority maintained monitoring stations being geographically sparse and t…
DGPs improve air quality inference from sparse data.
problem Accurate air quality monitoring in unmonitored areas.
method Deep Gaussian Processes with Doubly Stochastic Variational Inference.
result DGPs outperform state-of-the-art models in AQ inference.
RESPIRE calibrates low-cost air-quality sensors for CO levels, resistant to outliers.
problem Calibrating LCAQ sensors against regulatory-grade monitors is expensive and time-consuming.
method PROvably outlier-resistant semi-parametric regression technique.
result RESPIRE offers improved prediction in cross-site, cross-season, and cross-sensor settings.
GraphSVR forecasts urban air pollution robustly across stations and seasons.
problem Nonlinear, nonstationary, spatiotemporally dependent urban air pollution forecasting challenges.
method Combines graph convolutional learning and support vector regression.
result GraphSVR improves predictive accuracy and maintains stable performance across seasons and outlier-prone episodes.
New model clusters mixed-type data with missing values, improving air quality analysis.
problem Clustering mixed-type data with missing values and regime persistence.
method Statistical jump model incorporating regime persistence and handling missing data.
result Superior performance in inferring persistent air quality regimes compared to traditional methods.
This paper investigates a paradigm for offering artificial intelligence as a service (AI-aaS) on software-defined infrastructures (SDIs). The increasing complexity of networking and computing infrastructures is already driving the introduction of automation in networking and cloud computing management systems. Here we …
Engine forecasts NO2, O3, PM2.5, PM10 with high accuracy.
problem Accurate long-term air quality forecasting.
method Convolutional LSTM network trained on grid data.
result 4-day forecasts significantly outperform simple benchmarks.
Artificial Neural Network predicts PM2.5 pollution with low-cost sensors.
problem Costly and bulky PM2.5 monitoring instruments limit real-time, high-resolution data.
method Analytical equations derived using Artificial Neural Network (ANN).
result RMSE of 1.7973 ug/m3 and R2 of 0.9986 for eight predictors; 7.5372 ug/m3 and 0.9708 for three predictors.
Study compares geostatistical and machine learning models for PM2.5 prediction.
problem Improving accuracy of hourly PM2.5 maps across California.
method Traditional geostatistical methods (kriging, land use regression) and machine learning models (neural networks, random forests, support vector machines) were evaluated.
result Ensemble model enhanced predictive accuracy of PM2.5 concentration by correcting PurpleAir data bias.
Recently, a wide range of smart devices are deployed in a variety of environments to improve the quality of human life. One of the important IoT-based applications is smart homes for healthcare, especially for elders. IoT-based smart homes enable elders' health to be properly monitored and taken care of. However, elder…
The dynamic nature of air quality chemistry and transport makes it difficult to identify the mixture of air pollutants for a region. In this study of air quality in the Houston metropolitan area we apply dynamic principal component analysis (DPCA) to a normalized multivariate time series of daily concentration measurem…
Study shows reducing anthropogenic emissions significantly lowers PM2.5 levels but has little effect on O3 in Delhi.
problem Understanding and mitigating the effects of anthropogenic emissions on air pollution in Delhi.
method Predictive modeling, causal inference, Gaussian Process modeling, Granger causality analysis.
result Reductions in anthropogenic emissions lead to significant decreases in PM2.5 levels but have little effect on O3. Air quality forecasting has been regarded as the key problem of air pollution early warning and control management. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning model for air quality (mainly PM2.5) forecasting, which learns the spatial-temporal correlation features and interdependence of multivariate air quality rel…
MMformer improves forecasting of environmental time series data.
problem Accurately forecasting environmental change trends for policy-making.
method Meta-learning MTS model combining self-attention and adaptive transferable multi-head attention.
result MMformer outperforms other models in air quality and climate datasets, reducing prediction errors by 50% in MSE and 20% in MAE.
Deep CNN monitors AM quality with high accuracy.
problem Quality control in AM processes.
method Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model trained and tested online.
result 94% accuracy and 96% specificity in classifying AM quality.
A new model combines data-driven and model-based methods for accurate air quality prediction.
problem Accurate air quality forecasts are crucial for public health.
method Combines model-based strategy and data-driven method using PTC model.
result The PTC model achieves excellent performance compared to baseline models.
Recently, air pollution is one of the most concerns for big cities. Predicting air quality for any regions and at any time is a critical requirement of urban citizens. However, air pollution prediction for the whole city is a challenging problem. The reason is, there are many spatiotemporal factors affecting air pollut…
Engine predicts real-time air quality with high resolution.
problem Real-time prediction of air pollutants for health monitoring.
method Combines official data, models, land cover, traffic data for high-resolution predictions.
result Engine produces predictions with resolution of a few dozen meters.
This thesis tackles NILM challenges with a new dataset and efficient edge deployment techniques.
problem Limited datasets and high computational power for NILM deployment.
method Developed an interoperable data collection framework and introduced model compression techniques.
result Efficient edge deployment of NILM models for global scalability and sustainability.
DCK improves air quality index prediction with probabilistic spatial models.
problem Non-Gaussian, complex spatial structure of air quality index.
method Deep classifier kriging (DCK) for non-Gaussian, nonlinear spatial prediction.
result DCK outperforms conventional methods in predictive accuracy and uncertainty quantification.
This paper analyzes air pollution trends in Rwanda using low-cost sensors and machine learning.
problem Lack of reliable air pollution data in Rwanda due to high costs of equipment.
method Analysis of existing data and development of forecasting models using low-cost sensors and machine learning.
result Proposes forecasting models for air pollution data collected by low-cost sensors.
Owing to the expeditious growth in the information and communication technologies, smart cities have raised the expectations in terms of efficient functioning and management. One key aspect of residents' daily comfort is assured through affording reliable traffic management and route planning. Comprehensively, the majo…
The paper develops methods to reduce deployment risk under dynamic covariate shifts.
problem Reduction of deployment risk under dynamic covariate shifts.
method Time-domain Poincare inequality and Jacobian-velocity theorem to identify and control directional tangent energy.
result Drift-aligned tangent regularization (DTR) reduces risk volatility and directional gain in low-rank drift regimes.
Wearable computing is one of the fastest growing technologies today. Smart watches are poised to take over at least of half the wearable devices market in the near future. Smart watch screen size, however, is a limiting factor for growth, as it restricts practical text input. On the other hand, wearable devices have so…
Across numerous applications, forecasting relies on numerical solvers for partial differential equations (PDEs). Although the use of deep-learning techniques has been proposed, actual applications have been restricted by the fact the training data are obtained using traditional PDE solvers. Thereby, the uses of deep-le…
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is one of the criteria air pollutants regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States. There is strong evidence that ambient exposure to (PM2.5) increases risk of mortality and hospitalization. Large scale epidemiological studies on the health effects of P…
New method combines neural networks and data assimilation for indoor air quality prediction.
problem Accurate and fast prediction of indoor air quality using real-time data.
method Combines Data Assimilation and Machine Learning using a Convolutional neural network and Long-Short-Term-Memory.
result Improved accuracy of dynamic system representation by integrating real data.
Mobile and ubiquitous sensing of urban air quality has received increased attention as an economically and operationally viable means to survey atmospheric environment with high spatial-temporal resolution. This paper proposes a machine learning based mobile air pollution sensing framework, called Deep-MAPS, and demons…
A new method for handling imbalanced big data using ensembles and smart data.
problem Imbalanced data distribution in big data scenarios.
method Smart Data driven Decision Trees Ensemble (SD_DeTE) methodology.
result SD_DeTE outperforms Random Forest in handling imbalanced binary classification problems in big data.
New deep learning model optimizes energy use in buildings.
problem Optimizing energy use and comfort in large buildings.
method Transformer-based metamodel trained with simulation and sensor data, calibrated with CMA-ES, optimized with multi-objective algorithms.
result Optimal settings reduce energy loads while maintaining thermal comfort and air quality.
Air traffic control is a real-time safety-critical decision making process in highly dynamic and stochastic environments. In today's aviation practice, a human air traffic controller monitors and directs many aircraft flying through its designated airspace sector. With the fast growing air traffic complexity in traditi…
Interpretable additive models outperform complex DL and hybrid pipelines for air quality forecasting.
problem Accurate forecasting of urban air pollution for public health and policy guidance.
method Investigated lightweight additive models (FBP, NP) vs. deep learning and hybrid pipelines on Beijing PM2.5 and PM10 data.
result Facebook Prophet consistently outperformed NeuralProphet and traditional models, achieving high R2 values. LSCI provides locally adaptive prediction sets for operator models with tighter coverage.
problem Generating robust, calibrated uncertainty quantification for operator models.
method Local Sliced Conformal Inference (LSCI) for operator models.
result LSCI yields tighter prediction sets with stronger adaptivity compared to conformal baselines.
Due to the growing demand for improving surveillance capabilities in smart cities, systems need to be developed to provide better monitoring capabilities to competent authorities, agencies responsible for strategic resource management, and emergency call centers. This work assumes that, as a complementary monitoring so…
Machine learning helps predict smoke types for safer forest burns.
problem Determining which fuels to burn safely to reduce wildfire risk and minimize smoke.
method Machine learning techniques like spectral clustering and manifold learning.
result Interpretable representations and tools for differentiating smoke types.
Novel framework monitors cardiac image segmentation models in real-time.
problem Ensuring continuous high model performance and segmentation results in clinics.
method Formulated as anomaly detection, the framework derives surrogate quality measures for segmentation.
result Demonstrated accurate, fast, and scalable quality control monitoring.
Smart bin monitors predict medication adherence with high accuracy.
problem Predicting chronic medication adherence to improve healthcare efficiency.
method Machine learning models trained on IoT device data.
result High predictive performance (ROC AUC 0.86).
Proposes a multi-objective variational autoencoder for smart infrastructure damage detection.
problem Detecting and diagnosing damage in smart infrastructure using multi-way data.
method Multi-objective variational autoencoder (MVA) method for smart infrastructure damage detection and diagnosis.
result The method accurately detects structural damage, estimates severity, and captures damage locations.
Paper proposes personalized climate control for driver comfort.
problem Limited research on in-vehicle climate control and driver preferences.
method IoT platform for data collection, machine learning for driver behavior recognition, and personalized preference recommendation.
result Prototype demonstrates effective and accurate climate control for driver comfort.
SMART is an open source web application designed to help data scientists and research teams efficiently build labeled training data sets for supervised machine learning tasks. SMART provides users with an intuitive interface for creating labeled data sets, supports active learning to help reduce the required amount of …
Smart watches can identify smoking gestures with high accuracy.
problem Identifying smoking gestures to prevent relapses.
method Used accelerometer sensors in smart watches and Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs).
result 85%-95% success rates in identifying smoking gestures.
Predicts local AQI using mobile sensor data, improving accuracy by 71.654 MSE.
problem Inaccurate AQI data from sparse sensors in developing countries.
method Spatio-temporal GNNs for fine-grained AQI forecasting.
result Significant improvement in AQI prediction accuracy (71.654 MSE reduction).