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DEEP LEARNING-DRIVEN PREDICTION OF HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RISK MITIGATION

By
K. Muralisankar Orcid logo ,
K. Muralisankar

Associate Professor, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Al-Ameen Engineering College (Autonomous) , Erode, Tamil Nadu , India

G. Balaji Orcid logo ,
G. Balaji

Professor, Department of Mathematics, Al-Ameen Engineering College (Autonomous) , Erode, Tamil Nadu , India

C. Ramkumar Orcid logo ,
C. Ramkumar

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Al-Ameen Engineering College (Autonomous) , Erode, Tamil Nadu , India

M. Vasuki Orcid logo ,
M. Vasuki

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Al-Ameen Engineering College (Autonomous) , Erode, Tamil Nadu , India

S. Vijayananthan Orcid logo ,
S. Vijayananthan

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Al-Ameen Engineering College (Autonomous) , Erode, Tamil Nadu , India

D. Angayarkanni Orcid logo ,
D. Angayarkanni

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Al-Ameen Engineering College (Autonomous) , Erode, Tamil Nadu , India

Mohammed Aslam Orcid logo ,
Mohammed Aslam

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Al-Ameen Engineering College (Autonomous) , Erode, Tamil Nadu , India

M. Narmatha Orcid logo
M. Narmatha

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Al-Ameen Engineering College (Autonomous) , Erode, Tamil Nadu , India

Abstract

Hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) can be a critical risk to the sustainability of the environment and human health, which must be addressed by highly sophisticated predictive models to eliminate risks successfully. In this study, the researcher presents a hybrid deep learning model that combines Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with the ability to extract the spatial features of the air quality with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks to learn the temporal relationships between air quality data. The study leverages the live Internet of Things (IoT) sensor data of urban and industrial areas in India where the researchers monitor the levels of , , , , temperature, and humidity. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used to select the best features that retain 95% of data variance; hence, the best model performance and lower redundancy were attained. The framework was strictly compared to baseline models in terms of such metrics as Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE), and latency. CNN-LSTM model showed great predictive performance, having an MAE of 3.2 μg/m3 and RMSE of 5.6 μg/m3, which were notably higher than those of Random Forest (MAE: 6.3 μg/m3) and XGBoost (MAE: 5.9 mu g/m3). Moreover, the Model registered the shortest prediction latency of 120 ms and a computational cost of 2.3 million FLOPs, which validated the Model to be real-time deployable. These findings demonstrate the possible role of deep learning in early warning systems, and further studies are focused on the enhancement of the approaches with reinforcement learning to manage pollution dynamically.

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