Ensemble Machine Learning Model for Accurate Air Pollution Detection Using Commercial Gas Sensors. 2022

Wei-In Lai, and Yung-Yu Chen, and Jia-Hong Sun
Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan.

This paper presents the results on developing an ensemble machine learning model to combine commercial gas sensors for accurate concentration detection. Commercial gas sensors have the low-cost advantage and become key components of IoT devices in atmospheric condition monitoring. However, their native coarse resolution and poor selectivity limit their performance. Thus, we adopted recurrent neural network (RNN) models to extract the time-series concentration data characteristics and improve the detection accuracy. Firstly, four types of RNN models, LSTM and GRU, Bi-LSTM, and Bi-GRU, were optimized to define the best-performance single weak models for CO, O3, and NO2 gases, respectively. Next, ensemble models which integrate multiple single weak models with a dynamic model were defined and trained. The testing results show that the ensemble models perform better than the single weak models. Further, a retraining procedure was proposed to make the ensemble model more flexible to adapt to environmental conditions. The significantly improved determination coefficients show that the retraining helps the ensemble models maintain long-term stable sensing performance in an atmospheric environment. The result can serve as an essential reference for the applications of IoT devices with commercial gas sensors in environment condition monitoring.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D004784 Environmental Monitoring The monitoring of the level of toxins, chemical pollutants, microbial contaminants, or other harmful substances in the environment (soil, air, and water), workplace, or in the bodies of people and animals present in that environment. Monitoring, Environmental,Environmental Surveillance,Surveillance, Environmental
D005740 Gases The vapor state of matter; nonelastic fluids in which the molecules are in free movement and their mean positions far apart. Gases tend to expand indefinitely, to diffuse and mix readily with other gases, to have definite relations of volume, temperature, and pressure, and to condense or liquefy at low temperatures or under sufficient pressure. (Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed)
D000069550 Machine Learning A type of ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE that enable COMPUTERS to independently initiate and execute LEARNING when exposed to new data. Transfer Learning,Learning, Machine,Learning, Transfer
D000397 Air Pollution The presence of contaminants or pollutant substances in the air (AIR POLLUTANTS) that interfere with human health or welfare, or produce other harmful environmental effects. The substances may include GASES; PARTICULATE MATTER; or volatile ORGANIC CHEMICALS. Air Quality,Air Pollutions,Pollution, Air
D016571 Neural Networks, Computer A computer architecture, implementable in either hardware or software, modeled after biological neural networks. Like the biological system in which the processing capability is a result of the interconnection strengths between arrays of nonlinear processing nodes, computerized neural networks, often called perceptrons or multilayer connectionist models, consist of neuron-like units. A homogeneous group of units makes up a layer. These networks are good at pattern recognition. They are adaptive, performing tasks by example, and thus are better for decision-making than are linear learning machines or cluster analysis. They do not require explicit programming. Computational Neural Networks,Connectionist Models,Models, Neural Network,Neural Network Models,Neural Networks (Computer),Perceptrons,Computational Neural Network,Computer Neural Network,Computer Neural Networks,Connectionist Model,Model, Connectionist,Model, Neural Network,Models, Connectionist,Network Model, Neural,Network Models, Neural,Network, Computational Neural,Network, Computer Neural,Network, Neural (Computer),Networks, Computational Neural,Networks, Computer Neural,Networks, Neural (Computer),Neural Network (Computer),Neural Network Model,Neural Network, Computational,Neural Network, Computer,Neural Networks, Computational,Perceptron

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