Literature Survey and Uniqueness
Literature Survey and Uniqueness
A study in [2] presented a cloud-based air quality monitoring framework with a dashboard
to visualize pollutant levels in metropolitan cities. While effective in presenting macro-level
data, it relied on centralized processing and could not handle high-frequency real-time data
from numerous moving vehicles. Other works, such as [3], implemented mobile sensor
networks on public transport vehicles for large-scale pollution mapping. However, they
were limited to data collection and visualization, without edge inference or proactive alerts.
The use of Firebase as a real-time database for sensor data logging and display has been
explored in [4]. Although this offers real-time synchronization and simple deployment, most
applications are limited to passive logging without intelligent decision-making or inference.
The emergence of TinyML has enabled machine learning inference on microcontrollers like
the ESP32. In [5], a low-power gesture recognition system was deployed on a
microcontroller using TensorFlow Lite. While this demonstrated the potential of edge
inference, its application in vehicular pollution monitoring was unexplored.