Souradeep Deb, MS by Research,ECE; C Rajashekar Reddy, MS (Dual Degree) student working as a Research Assistant in CoE-IoT, SPCRC; Dr. Sachin Chaudhari, Dr. Kavita Vemuri and Dr. K S Rajan presented a paper on IoT Network Based Analysis of Variations in Particulate Matter due to COVID-19 lockdown at the 7th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT) 2021 in Bengaluru from 9 – 11 July.
Research work as explained by the authors:
During the COVID-19 pandemic, India’s complete lockdown was implemented from March 24 to May 3 2020, to minimize the effects of community transfer and control the rapidly growing rate of the virus spread. In this paper, we focus on quantifying the change in air pollution due to Hyderabad’s lockdown, the capital of Telangana State. For this, two datasets are employed. The first dataset is from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) stations in the city. In contrast, the second dataset is the dense IoT network of PM monitors deployed in the educational campus of IIITH in Gachibowli, Hyderabad. An analysis is done on the collected data to understand the effect of lockdown on PM values while considering the yearly and seasonal variations. It has been shown that while there has been a significant drop in PM values. However, through correlation analysis between the temperature and the PM values during the regular times, not all PM values decrease because of the lockdown.
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