抄録
A wireless sensor network was developed for continuously measuring ozone concentration in the atmosphere. The network was constructed of sensor nodes, each of which was made of an ozone sensor and a communications transmitter connected to a cellular phone network. In order to examine the performance of the sensor network, one-year observations were made at local air pollution monitoring stations in Sapporo and in Ayabe (in Kyoto Prefecture), and the ozone concentrations derived from the sensor outputs were compared with those obtained by the standard monitoring instruments. As a result, it was proved that the ozone sensor used in the node had enough ability to follow the change in the ozone concentration in the atmosphere. The correlation coefficients between the sensor network and the monitoring-station observations exceeded 0.86. Thus the ozone monitoring sensor network developed in this study was found to be at a stage of practical application.
