Environmental Monitoring System for Smart City Based on Secure Internet of Things (IoT) Architecture

With increasing population, urbanization, energy, transportation, and agricultural developments, pollution is degrading the environment with ever-increasing pace. The degradation in the environment due to pollution can easily affect the quality of human life by increasing health issues. Therefore, in order to avoid health risks due to the polluted environment, it is essential to monitor its state. However, at present, monitoring of data on the state of the environment is not a well-researched field. Therefore, it is required to develop a system which can efficiently collect and analyze data on the environment in order to avoid any potential risks. The Internet is one of the necessary and important tools which can be used to develop a system capable of monitoring and sharing information on environmental pollution. This study proposes Internet of Things (IoT) based environment monitoring and alert system. The proposed system monitors the region specific environment for air quality, and sound pollution, while also facilitating secure data transmission over the network which solves the security issues in IoT system.