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Sensors 2008, 8, 3601-3623; DOI: 10.3390/s8063601 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /sensors Article Air Pollution Monitoring and Mining Based on Sensor Grid in London Yajie Ma 1,*, Mark Richards 2, Moustafa Ghanem 1, Yike Guo 1 and John Hassard 2 1 Department of Computing, Imperial College London, 180 Queens Gate, London SW7 2BW, United Kingdom; E-mail: yajie.ma@imperial.ac.uk; m.ghanem@imperial.ac.uk; y.guo@imperial.ac.uk 2 Department of Physics, Imperial College London, 180 Queens Gate, London SW7 2BW, United Kingdom; E-mail: mark.richards@imperial.ac.uk; j.hassard@imperial.ac.uk * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail: yajie.ma@imperial.ac.uk Received: 1 April 2008; in revised form: 22 May 2008 / Accepted: 23 May 2008 / Published: 1 June 2008 Abstract: In this paper, we present a distributed infrastructure based on wireless sensors network and Grid computing technology for air pollution monitoring and mining, which aims to develop low-cost and ubiquitous sensor networks to collect real-time, large scale and comprehensive environmental data from road traffic emissions for air pollution monitoring in urban environment. The main informatics challenges in respect to constructing the high-throughput sensor Grid are discussed in this paper. We present a two- layer network framework, a P2P e-Science Grid architecture, and the distributed data mining algorithm as the solutions to address the challenges. We simu