ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2026
A Vehicular IoT-Based Methane Sensing System for Large-Scale Urban Environmental Monitoring.
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This paper presents the design, development, and large-scale deployment of a vehicular IoT-based methane sensing system for urban environmental monitoring. The proposed solution integrates a low-cost metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) methane sensor with a dual chamber gas sampling mechanism, embedded processing, and wireless communication via 4G/5G networks using a smartphone as a gateway. Methane concentration data are collected from sensors installed in moving vehicles, georeferenced in real time using GNSS, and transmitted to a cloud-based platform for storage and analysis. Field experiments were conducted in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, Brazil, using 16 instrumented vehicles over a 20-month period, covering approximately 192,274 km and generating more than 48 million measurements. The results reveal spatially consistent methane concentration patterns and identify urban areas with elevated levels exceeding global background concentrations. A comparative analysis with a commercial infrared-based mobile methane monitoring system showed consistent agreement in the identification of spatial methane concentration patterns and potential emission hotspots. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system for scalable urban methane monitoring.
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