Published inairqoon·Mar 6, 2019Corporate Social Responsibility and Hyperlocal Air Quality MonitoringThe world is becoming increasingly urbanized and corporate employees are exposed to dangerous levels of ambient air pollution on their commute, in their place of work and in their place of rest throughout the work day. As a part of corporate social responsibility companies have obligation to protect their employees as well as the environment around their operations. — Each generation breathes in slightly different air and each population also breathes in slightly different air. In fact, the air you breathe can be different depending on which side of the road you are on, even on which floor of the office block you are sat. So, in a sense…Environment5 min readEnvironment5 min read
Published inairqoon·Dec 14, 2018Street level air pollution in IstanbulAir pollution monitoring as a tool for evaluation of urban projects — Background By 2050, population increase will result in 68% of the world’s population living in urban areas. More people living in cities will inevitably cause increases in anthropogenic emissions due to traffic, industrialization and energy use. According to the World Health Organization, the effects of air pollution cause about 7 million…Environment8 min readEnvironment8 min read
Published inInovatink·Feb 23, 2018Improved Smart Waste Management for Smart CityA proposition for improved smart waste management solution in the context of Smart City — Smart City technology evolved together with the developments in wireless sensor networks (WSN) and the Internet of Things (IoT). Smart cities essentially combine the use of ICT to provide services for better living conditions inside cities. It is a diverse topic of discussion with several application areas as shown in…Smart Cities7 min readSmart Cities7 min read
Published inInovatink·Feb 9, 2018Data Protocols for Smart CityComparison of data protocols for Smart City — MQTT vs. CoAP — In the architecture context, Smart Cities are composed of heterogeneous technology elements with different power, communication, and computation characteristics. Smart City includes sensor nodes and gateways that have limited battery and computational resources. Hence, Smart City systems require protocols for data transmission that are, bandwidth and energy-efficient and need a…Internet Of Things9 min readInternet Of Things9 min read
Published inInovatink·Jan 26, 2018(Realistic) State of IoT technologyThe evolution of computation devices through history was characterized by improvements in their; cost, size, power consumption, computation power, number of deployed devices and connectivity. Emerging generation of devices will be even cheaper, smaller, more energy efficient, more computationally capable and deployed in bigger numbers than the smart mobile devices…IoT9 min readIoT9 min read
