About

CUT Environmental Monitoring Platform is an intelligence platform that is developed an maintained by Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) and enables users to access, extract and analyze air quality, water quality and meteorological data. Data can be viewed or extracted through a table dashboard where users can make their requests on specific data that they are concerned about. Moreover, these data can also be viewed through our user-friendly live map. Also, we provide a set of various graphs that present some statistics regarding the data we are collecting. The afforementioned include the core functionalities of our CUT Environmental Monitoring Platform.

CUT Air Quality

CUT Air Quality is a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) which consists of environmental and meteorological nodes each connected to various sensors. Our network consists of five static nodes (Env-stations) and one mobile (Fixed-wing UAV) which are equipped with the following sensors:

To enhance air quality monitoring, CUT has also installed some weather stations which are equipped with the following sensors:

Env-stations feature autonomous operation with rechargeable batteries that are continuously charged from external solar panels (approximate battery autonomy is five days in dark conditions). Moreover, there is a wireless communication interface using Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz) as well as a broadband connection provided in collaboration with Cyta (Cyprus Telecommunications Authority). The sensors of each Env-stations are programmed to measure every 5 minutes and save the readings on an SD card in a text file format. Every 1 hour each file is uploaded to an FTP server. From there, our server periodically executes scheduled data collection scripts to collect and store the data into our database. In the case of low battery level (50% or below) the nodes are programmed to automatically take readings every hour instead of every 5 minutes to eliminate power consumption. Additionally, the device no longer uploads files in order to save more power. Once the battery level is restored to normal the device operates as supposed to. The state-of-the-art approach of our WSN includes sensor calibration to ensure measurement accuracy at a high standard.

CUT Water Quality

CUT Environmental Monitoring Platform has also integrated two types of nodes that take measurements and monitor the water quality. The first type consists of a couple of smart buoys which are equipped with water quality monitoring sensors. The second type consists of a couple of oil detectors measuring the existance of oils in the water.

DLI Air Quality

Meteorology