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Another environmental project was created to involve the community in taking measurements
to bring awareness to air pollution and the effects of air quality on communities. rough this
project, people will be allowed to take their own measurements of air that they encounter on a
daily basis. is action will allow for more locations to be evaluated. ese devices will be inte-
grated into mobile phones so users will be able to use them relatively easily.
ese sensor readings along with GPS space-time stamps are sent to a database server using a
GPRS radio [7]. e researchers constructed three parts to their demonstration: a handheld com-
ponent, a Web portal, and a mobile phone. e handheld component and Web portal wil