Air Quality Index Analysis and Solutions for High Traffic, Industrial and Residential Regions in Delhi/NCR | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

Air Quality monitoring is important aspect these days as high pollution is causing bad health effects in the DelhiNCR region. It is necessary to take steps for improve the air quality of the capital and also preserve natural trees for making the environment pollution free. There are a lot of traffic issues, industrial pollution and household pollution which contributes to the bad air quality index. Monitoring is generally done using devices which have sensors like ozone, PM10, PM2.5, CO, SO2, etc. here, a device with IOT is used to measure the sensor values and then convert to Air Quality Index. In this thesis, air quality index is calculated for various areas in DelhiNCR which are namely, industrial area Patparganj, a high traffic area Wazirpur and a green area near Jawaharlal Nehru stadium. It is seen that there is high pollution in the areas of Patparganj due to industries and in Wazirpur are because of roads connecting major parts of the city and also in the area of Jawaharlal Stadium as its residential area in the surroundings and has greenery has lower pollution level. The analysis is performed for 5 days in each area. Hence, for these areas solution is provided to improve the air quality by the major use of filters and plantation is required in these areas.