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A Distributed Pollution Monitoring System: The Application of Blockchain to Air Quality Monitoring

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Abstract

Global increases in anthropogenic emissions of pollutants have resulted in sometimes hazardous fluctuations in air quality worldwide. This has led to a need for a publicly available, scalable, and tamper-proof pollution monitoring system for use by authorities, private citizens and researchers alike. In this paper, we investigate the applications of blockchain in such a system and propose a prototype that attempts to meet all of the above criteria. The use of blockchain technology ensures a public and permanent, tamper-proof record of all air quality data. Our prototype demonstrates that, despite the cost of storage and transactions on the blockchain, a cost-effective blockchain-based solution for a pollution monitoring system is possible, and such a solution could solve problems of data reliability that persist in pollution monitoring.

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    https://www.who.int/airpollution/en/.

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    https://terra.nasa.gov/citizen-science/air-quality.

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    https://www.psmarketresearch.com/market-analysis/air-quality-monitoring-devices-market.

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    https://www.airvisual.com/air-pollution-data-api.

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    https://breezometer.com/products/air-quality-api.

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    https://followmyvote.com/.

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    https://www.proofofexistence.com/.

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    https://ethgasstation.info/index.php.

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    https://medium.com/pinata/whats-the-real-cost-of-ipfs-3623f274cfaa.

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    https://aws.amazon.com/.

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    https://coinmarketcap.com/.

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    https://infura.io/.

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    https://docs.openaq.org/.

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    https://github.com/uber/react-vis.

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Acknowledgment

This paper was part of a joint effort between ISEP Engineering School and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) to investigate the possible role of blockchain technology in assisting sustainability initiatives.

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  1. Stanford University, Stanford, USA

    Cameron Thouati de Tazoult

  2. ISEP - LISITE, Paris, France

    Raja Chiky

  3. UNEP, Paris, France

    Valentin Foltescu

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  1. Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

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  2. University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, Pau, France

    Richard Chbeir

  3. University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, Pau, France

    Ernesto Exposito

  4. University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, Pau, France

    Philippe Aniorté

  5. Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

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de Tazoult, C.T., Chiky, R., Foltescu, V. (2019). A Distributed Pollution Monitoring System: The Application of Blockchain to Air Quality Monitoring. In: Nguyen, N., Chbeir, R., Exposito, E., Aniorté, P., Trawiński, B. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. ICCCI 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11684. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28374-2_59

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