Dust Monitoring

As cities around the world struggle to contain air pollution and unhealthy levels of dust from industrial and construction sites, dust monitoring technology is giving cities powerful tool to address air quality issues and protect the health of citizens.

Dust monitoring systems use Internet of Things (IoT) sensors to monitor dust concentration throughout a city’s footprint and to identify the nature of contaminants in the air. Dust monitoring sensors can also provide data on temperature, humidity, wind direction, wind speed and other data points that help cities to better gauge the threat that polluted air represents to citizens and to take steps to remediate it.

Like smart air quality monitoring technologies, dust monitoring systems also require a high-performance network with a variety of connection protocols that allow sensors to transmit data to city servers. Analytics platforms are needed to collect and aggregate data and to “crunch the numbers” to produce actionable intelligence for city planners. User interfaces such as dashboards, heat maps and reports distill vast amounts of data into high-value insights that can drive decision-making and alert officials when dust levels have reached dangerous conditions.

The benefits of dust monitoring technology

With dust monitoring and other air pollution monitoring technology, cities can:

• Protect public health by fully defining and understanding their pollution problems, taking short-term steps to remediate it and long-term steps to prevent it, and alerting citizens to dangerous levels of dust, giving residents the information they need to better protect their health.
• Ensure compliance with air quality regulation, such as the Clean Air Act, through continuous environmental monitoring that enables cities to proactively address pollution problems.
• Avoid ecological disasters by getting early warning that helps to prevent catastrophic events that could emit unhealthy and dangerous levels of dust and other pollutants into the air.

Dust monitoring solutions can be combined with technology for temperature monitoring, water quality monitoring and general air quality monitoring to provide cities with a complete view of environmental quality.

Connectivity for dust monitoring solutions from Spectrum Enterprise

Technologies like smart dust monitoring, smart traffic systems and smart electricity grids need a higher level of connectivity to function properly. To ensure that smart monitoring systems can stream information in real time, cities need a high-performing, high-bandwidth network that can handle the vast amount of data produced by thousands of sensors, transmitting it with low latency to city servers for analysis and interpretation.

With a nationwide, wholly owned fiber network that spans 840,000 miles, Spectrum Enterprise is a trusted technology provider to smart cities throughout the U.S. Spectrum is investing billions of dollars to bring high-speed fiber to even more communities, enabling cities everywhere to lay the foundation for smart city projects today and tomorrow.

To support dust monitoring technology, Spectrum Enterprise provides a two-way, fully interactive digital network that delivers:

• Symmetrical connection speeds up to 100 Gbps for government and enterprise clients.
• Gigabit connections for homes and businesses.
• WiFi connections through more than 350,000 WiFi hotspots nationwide, which will soon offer wireless connection speeds up to 1 Gbps.
• Cellular connectivity provided by one of the largest cellular LTE networks in the nation.

Learn more about Spectrum Smart Cities at www.spectrumsmartcities.com.