Laura Po

Prof. Laura Po

“Enzo Ferrari” Engineering Department - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
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Academic Career Length

21Years (2006-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 February 2022 in Big Data Research
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Chiara Bachechi
Laura PoLaura Po
Laura Po
Federica RolloFederica Rollo
Federica Rollo

6 January 2023 in Sensors
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Chiara Bachechi
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Laura Po
Clean air in cities improves our health and overall quality of life and helps fight climate change and preserve our environment. High-resolution measures of pollutants’ concentrations can support the identification of urban areas with poor air quality and raise citizens’ awareness while encouraging more sustainable behaviors. Recent advances in Internet of Things (IoT) technology have led to extensive use of low-cost air quality sensors for hyper-local air quality monitoring. As a result, public administrations and citizens increasingly rely on information obtained from sensors to make decisions in their daily lives and mitigate pollution effects. Unfortunately, in most sensing applications, sensors are known to be error-prone. Thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, it is possible to devise computationally efficient methods that can automatically pinpoint anomalies in those data streams in real time. In order to enhance the reliability of air quality sensing applications, we believe that it is highly important to set up a data-cleaning process. In this work, we propose AIrSense, a novel AI-based framework for obtaining reliable pollutant concentrations from raw data collected by a network of low-cost sensors. It enacts an anomaly detection and repairing procedure on raw measurements before applying the calibration model, which converts raw measurements to concentration measurements of gasses. There are very few studies of anomaly detection in raw air quality sensor data (millivolts). Our approach is the first that proposes to detect and repair anomalies in raw data before they are calibrated by considering the temporal sequence of the measurements and the correlations between different sensor features. If at least some previous measurements are available and not anomalous, it trains a model and uses the prediction to repair the observations; otherwise, it exploits the previous observation. Firstly, a majority voting system based on three different algorithms detects anomalies in raw data. Then, anomalies are repaired to avoid missing values in the measurement time series. In the end, the calibration model provides the pollutant concentrations. Experiments conducted on a real dataset of 12,000 observations produced by 12 low-cost sensors demonstrated the importance of the data-cleaning process in improving calibration algorithms’ performances.

1 April 2011 in Information Systems
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Laura Po
SSSerena Sorrentino
Serena Sorrentino

23 November 2021 in Cluster Computing
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CBChiara Bachechi
Chiara Bachechi
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Federica Rollo
Laura PoLaura Po
Laura Po

1 April 2011 in Information Systems
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RTRaquel Trillo
Raquel Trillo
Laura PoLaura Po
Laura Po
Sergio IlarriSergio Ilarri
Sergio Ilarri
SBSonia Bergamaschi
Sonia Bergamaschi
EMEduardo Mena
Eduardo Mena

1 December 2010 in Data & Knowledge Engineering
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SSSerena Sorrentino
Serena Sorrentino
SBSonia Bergamaschi
Sonia Bergamaschi
MGMaciej Gawinecki
Maciej Gawinecki
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Laura Po