Development problems of large area, web accessible, environmental pollution monitoring system

The main purpose of the paper is to present the www hydrocarbon pollution monitoring system which is under development at the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT). The dedicated system server collects data from mobile GSM/GPRS accessed observation points, and delivers information on potential pollution to the authorized www clients. The emergency alarm information is planned to be send directly to palmtop/mobile phone equipped emergency teams to assure short response time to environment contamination. The moving observation points property and country wide GSM operator coverage makes the system flexible and universal. The principles of system realization are presented. The structure of the system and some problems concerning its development are discussed. Two realizations of system software are presented and compared: one with the use of Microsoft .NET IDE, and the other with LAMP/WAMP approach.