Assessment and Optimization of Air Monitoring Network for Smart Cities with Multicriteria Decision Analysis

Environmental monitoring networks need to be designed in efficient way, to minimize costs and maximize the information granted by their operation. Gathering data from monitoring stations is also the essence of Smart Cities. Agency of Regional Air Quality Monitoring in the Gdansk Metropolitan Area (pol. ARMAAG) was assessed in terms of its efficiency to obtain variety of information. The results on one-month average concentrations of seven parameters (data for three years) for eight monitoring stations were the input data to multicriteria decision analysis assessment and the least effective was detected.

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