Vayu - A proposal to address the SDG for maintaining AQI through 5G/6G mobile network

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of Global goals aimed at making the world a better, more sustainable place for everyone. Air pollution, along with climate change, is one of the most important environmental threats to public health. Improving air quality can aid in climate change by controlling emissions to improve air quality. Mobile is a key enabler of SDG. It can be used as a medium to prevent, control and mitigate air pollution challenges. The goal is to propose a granular AQI data collection via sensors that can be embedded in mobile devices, eliminating anomalies and irregularities in data received through conventional sensor station systems. The proposed application to obtain real-time AQI data through mobile devices would be interfaced through cloud services to the end-users making data consistently available ‘on the go’ based on which awareness and preventive measures can be incorporated. As we are moving towards 5G/6G mobile technology most of the earlier phones, as well as the IoT devices used for collecting pollutant concentration, will be discarded; generating huge amounts of e-waste, leading to management of another SDG. Therefore accountability of AQI and e-waste of mobiles will be predicted using machine learning and a study of reusing certain rare metals and components from existing mobiles around the world will be presented.