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Waste Management and Prediction of Air Pollutants Using IoT and Machine Learning Approach
[EN] Increasing waste generation has become a significant issue over the globe due to the rapid increase in urbanization and industrialization. In the literature, many issues that have a direct impact on the increase of waste and the improper disposal of waste have been investigated. Most of the existing work in the literature has focused on providing a cost-efficient solution for the monitoring of garbage collection system using the Internet of Things (IoT). Though an IoT-based solution provides the real-time monitoring of a garbage collection system, it is limited to control the spreading of overspill and bad odor blowout gasses. The poor and inadequate disposal of waste produces toxic gases, and radiation in the environment has adverse effects on human health, the greenhouse system, and global warming. While considering the importance of air pollutants, it is imperative to monitor and forecast the concentration of air pollutants in addition to the management of the waste. In this paper, we present and IoT-based smart bin using a machine and deep learning model to manage the disposal of garbage and to forecast the air pollutant present in the surrounding bin environment. The smart bin is connected to an IoT-based server, the Google Cloud Server (GCP), which performs the computation necessary for predicting the status of the bin and for forecasting air quality based on real-time data. We experimented with a traditional model (k-nearest neighbors algorithm (k-NN) and logistic reg) and a non-traditional (long short term memory (LSTM) network-based deep learning) algorithm for the creation of alert messages regarding bin status and forecasting the amount of air pollutant carbon monoxide (CO) present in the air at a specific instance. The recalls of logistic regression and k-NN algorithm is 79% and 83%, respectively, in a real-time testing environment for predicting the status of the bin. The accuracy of modified LSTM and simple LSTM models is 90% and 88%, respectively, to predict the future concentration of gases present in the air. The system resulted in a delay of 4 s in the creation and transmission of the alert message to a sanitary worker. The system provided the real-time monitoring of garbage levels along with notifications from the alert mechanism. The proposed works provide improved accuracy by utilizing machine learning as compared to existing solutions based on simple approaches.This research work was funded by the Ministry of Education and the Deanship of Scientific Research, Najran University. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, under code number NU/ESCI/19/001.Hussain, A.; Draz, U.; Ali, T.; Tariq, S.; Glowacz, A.; Irfan, M.; Antonino Daviu, JA.... (2020). Waste Management and Prediction of Air Pollutants Using IoT and Machine Learning Approach. Energies. 13(15):1-22. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13153930S1221315Lionetto, M. G., Guascito, M. 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Empowering citizens' cognition and decision making in smart sustainable cities
© 2019 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes,creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.Advances in Internet technologies have made it possible to gather, store, and process large quantities of data, often in real time. When considering smart and sustainable cities, this big data generates useful information and insights to citizens, service providers, and policy makers. Transforming this data into knowledge allows for empowering citizens' cognition as well as supporting decision-making routines. However, several operational and computing issues need to be taken into account: 1) efficient data description and visualization, 2) forecasting citizens behavior, and 3) supporting decision making with intelligent algorithms. This paper identifies several challenges associated with the use of data analytics in smart sustainable cities and proposes the use of hybrid simulation-optimization and machine learning algorithms as an effective approach to empower citizens' cognition and decision making in such ecosystemsPeer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft
A GeoSocial Intelligence Framework for Studying & Promoting Resilience to Seasonal Flooding in Jakarta, Indonesia
PetaJakarta.org is a web-based platform developed to harness the power of social media to gather, sort, and
display information about flooding for Jakarta residents in real time. The platform runs on the open source software
CogniCity—an OSS platform developed by the SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong—which
allows data to be collected and disseminated by community members through their location-enabled mobile
devices. The project uses a GeoSocial Intelligence Framework to approach the complexity of Jakarta’s entangled
hydraulic, hydrological and meteorological systems and thereby converts the noise of social media into knowledge
about urban infrastructure and situational conditions related to flooding and inundation.
In this paper, PetaJakarta.org co-directors Dr Tomas Holderness, Geomatics Research Fellow at the SMART
Infrastructure Facility, Dr Etienne Turpin, Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the SMART Infrastructure
Facility, and Dr Rohan Wickramasuriyam, GIS Research Fellow at the SMART Infrastructure Facility, will discuss
their GeoSocial Intelligence Framework as it applies to their current research in Jakarta. They will also present their
preliminary findings from their 2014 Twitter #DataGrant, which has allowed them to develop a correlative analysis
between historic social media information, the Jakarta government’s flood maps, and the infrastructure used to
manage critical flood emergencies. Finally, they will speculate on several future applications of the CogniCity OSS
and suggest how it might be developed to further promote an integrated civic co-management platform with the
support of business, industry, government and community organizations
Urban Swarms: A new approach for autonomous waste management
Modern cities are growing ecosystems that face new challenges due to the
increasing population demands. One of the many problems they face nowadays is
waste management, which has become a pressing issue requiring new solutions.
Swarm robotics systems have been attracting an increasing amount of attention
in the past years and they are expected to become one of the main driving
factors for innovation in the field of robotics. The research presented in this
paper explores the feasibility of a swarm robotics system in an urban
environment. By using bio-inspired foraging methods such as multi-place
foraging and stigmergy-based navigation, a swarm of robots is able to improve
the efficiency and autonomy of the urban waste management system in a realistic
scenario. To achieve this, a diverse set of simulation experiments was
conducted using real-world GIS data and implementing different garbage
collection scenarios driven by robot swarms. Results presented in this research
show that the proposed system outperforms current approaches. Moreover, results
not only show the efficiency of our solution, but also give insights about how
to design and customize these systems.Comment: Manuscript accepted for publication in IEEE ICRA 201
The Emerging Internet of Things Marketplace From an Industrial Perspective: A Survey
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a dynamic global information network
consisting of internet-connected objects, such as Radio-frequency
identification (RFIDs), sensors, actuators, as well as other instruments and
smart appliances that are becoming an integral component of the future
internet. Over the last decade, we have seen a large number of the IoT
solutions developed by start-ups, small and medium enterprises, large
corporations, academic research institutes (such as universities), and private
and public research organisations making their way into the market. In this
paper, we survey over one hundred IoT smart solutions in the marketplace and
examine them closely in order to identify the technologies used,
functionalities, and applications. More importantly, we identify the trends,
opportunities and open challenges in the industry-based the IoT solutions.
Based on the application domain, we classify and discuss these solutions under
five different categories: smart wearable, smart home, smart, city, smart
environment, and smart enterprise. This survey is intended to serve as a
guideline and conceptual framework for future research in the IoT and to
motivate and inspire further developments. It also provides a systematic
exploration of existing research and suggests a number of potentially
significant research directions.Comment: IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 201
Big data analytics:Computational intelligence techniques and application areas
Big Data has significant impact in developing functional smart cities and supporting modern societies. In this paper, we investigate the importance of Big Data in modern life and economy, and discuss challenges arising from Big Data utilization. Different computational intelligence techniques have been considered as tools for Big Data analytics. We also explore the powerful combination of Big Data and Computational Intelligence (CI) and identify a number of areas, where novel applications in real world smart city problems can be developed by utilizing these powerful tools and techniques. We present a case study for intelligent transportation in the context of a smart city, and a novel data modelling methodology based on a biologically inspired universal generative modelling approach called Hierarchical Spatial-Temporal State Machine (HSTSM). We further discuss various implications of policy, protection, valuation and commercialization related to Big Data, its applications and deployment
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