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Global increases in anthropogenic emissions of pollutants have resulted in sometimes hazardous fluctuations in air quality worldwide. This has led to a need for a publicly available, scalable, and tamper-proof pollution monitoring system for use by authorities, private citizens and researchers alike. In this paper, we investigate the applications of blockchain in such a system and propose a prototype that attempts to meet all of the above criteria. The use of blockchain technology ensures a public and permanent, tamper-proof record of all air quality data. Our prototype demonstrates that, despite the cost of storage and transactions on the blockchain, a cost-effective blockchain-based solution for a pollution monitoring system is possible, and such a solution could solve problems of data reliability that persist in pollution monitoring.
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This paper was part of a joint effort between ISEP Engineering School and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) to investigate the possible role of blockchain technology in assisting sustainability initiatives.
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de Tazoult, C.T., Chiky, R., Foltescu, V. (2019). A Distributed Pollution Monitoring System: The Application of Blockchain to Air Quality Monitoring. In: Nguyen, N., Chbeir, R., Exposito, E., Aniorté, P., Trawiński, B. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. ICCCI 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11684. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28374-2_59
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