FUME: An air quality decision support system for cities based on CEP technology and fuzzy logic

Air pollution has become one of the most important problems in urban areas, and governments are applying regulations in an attempt to fulfill the recommendations of Air Quality (AQ) standards to reduce the pollution. In this paper, we present FUME, a decision support system to process heterogeneous...

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Authors: Brazalez Segovia, Enrique, Macia Soler, Hermenegilda, Díaz Descalzo, Gregorio, Valero Ruiz, Edelmira, Valero Ruiz, Valentín, Baeza Romero, María Teresa
Format: article
Publication Date:2022
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Repository:RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM
OAI Identifier:oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/36377
Online Access:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568494622006093
https://hdl.handle.net/10578/36377
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Air quality
Decision support system
Fuzzy logic
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Summary:Air pollution has become one of the most important problems in urban areas, and governments are applying regulations in an attempt to fulfill the recommendations of Air Quality (AQ) standards to reduce the pollution. In this paper, we present FUME, a decision support system to process heterogeneous and real-time data to propose daily recommendations following an action protocol based on AQ standards. This approach considers past, current and future environmental situations (AQ and atmospheric stability). FUME is implemented by combining Fuzzy Logic (FL) and Complex Event Processing (CEP) technology. In particular, we propose a Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) to improve the decision-making process by recommending the actions for four different sources of pollution: traffic, industry, domestic and agriculture. The FUME approach is applied to a specific case study: the city of Puertollano (Ciudad Real, Spain), where the pollution levels of PM10 are, on numerous occasions, above the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations.