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Review
. 2023 Jul 3;9(7):e17799.
doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e17799. eCollection 2023 Jul.

Internet of things based visualisation of effect of air pollution on the lungs using HEPA filters air cleaner

Calorine Katushabe  1   2 , Santhi Kumaran  3 , Emmanuel Masabo  4
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Internet of things based visualisation of effect of air pollution on the lungs using HEPA filters air cleaner

Calorine Katushabe et al. Heliyon. .

Abstract

The impact of air quality on human health and the environment is very significant, with poor air quality being responsible for numerous deaths and environmental damage worldwide. Whereas a number of studies have been done to monitor the quality of air with help of emerging technologies, little has been done to visualize its effect on health particularly on the lungs. The study explores an approach that combines Internet of Things (IoT) technology with High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filters air cleaner to monitor and visualize the effects of air pollution on lung health, highlighting the significant damage that poor air quality causes particularly on the lungs graphically. To achieve this, a 3D display of the lungs is modelled using HEPA filters, which changes colour based on the air pollutant concentrations detected by IoT-based sensors. The collected air quality data is then transmitted to Thingspeak, a visualization platform for further analysis. It is observed that the colour of the 3D lung display changed to black over time as air pollutant concentrations increased which in our study is an indicator of unhealthy lung. The study presents an innovative approach to visualize the effects of air pollution on lung health using IoT and HEPA filters air cleaner, which could have significant implications for public health policies aimed at mitigating the harmful effects of air pollution, particularly on lung health.

Keywords: 3D lung display; Air pollution; HEPA filter; Internet of things; Thingspeak.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Colour of a healthy lung Vs unhealthy lung .
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Figure 2
Air Quality Index Guidelines .
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Figure 3
System Architecture.
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Figure 4
System set up.
Figure 5
Figure 5
Air Quality Monitoring Setup.
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Figure 6
HEPA Filter Fabric and 3D Lung Model fitted with the HEPA Material.
Algorithm 1
Algorithm 1
Retrieval and Display of average Sensor Data.
Algorithm 2
Algorithm 2
Algorithm for Observing Colour Change Intensity of the 3D Lung display.
Figure 7
Figure 7
Colour Intensity Change.
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Figure 8
AQI Monitored.
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Figure 9
Average Humidity and Average Temperature.
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