The project tasks in this year are to survey the current situation of air quality monitoring nationwide, promote the integration of monitoring data exchange, establish a display platform of information for air quality monitoring, and plan an air quality monitoring center of new epoch for its functional framework and operation system. After conducting the survey by this project, there are 222 air quality monitoring stations nationwide, wherein, 76 stations are established by EPA (Environmental Protection Administration), 29 stations are established by local EPB (Environmental Protection Bureau), 45 stations are established at special industrial parks and 72 stations are established by large-size enterprises; and till June 15, 2016, this project has completed the data interconnection between the EPA station and EBA station; meanwhile, the development of data transmission program for the stations at special industrial parks and stations established by large-size enterprises is scheduled to be completed at the end of June and will be installed for operation at a demonstration site by then; besides that, the project has completed CEMS (Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems) data interconnection for 319 units at 103 factories nationwide. The integrated system framework of display platform is divided into two major systems: Geographic Information System (GIS) and Management Information System (MIS); wherein, GIS is featured the functions to display the following information in Taiwan: PM2.5 overview, air quality information, factory emission data, long-term trend analysis and spatial concentration map, etc.; and that MIS has a comparatively complicated level for its data statistics and analysis; it is mainly divided into three major function aspects: air quality monitoring information, factory emission data and air quality analysis ＆ application; not only the real-time monitoring data can be displayed, but also the display of historical data and the function of related statistical analysis ＆ application are available. Meanwhile, in order to ensure the system efficiency and information security, there are pressure test and information security test conducted as well; and the test results show that there is no leak to the related information security while on-line retrieval by several people at the same time is maintainable. The air quality monitoring center of new epoch has been planned by learning the experiences from abovementioned implementations and referring to the air quality monitoring websites abroad; the center is divided into four major sub-centers: monitoring information center, air quality forecasting center, instrument management center and analysis support center; and it has been completed the planning for the needed software and hardware.

Air quality monitoring, information integration, data analysis