ICT4ENV Research Group
Solving environmental problems using state-of-the-art
Information and Communication Technologies


Last 30 years researchers from Faculty of Technical Sciences were very active in environmental protection, pollution prevention, environmental management, and development of decision support systems. Starting from activities focused on air pollution modelling and simulations following by the environmental impact assessments studies and projects focused mostly on pollution from large industrial sources and pollution from mobile sources from traffic and transportation. Last 10 years activities were expanded to cover all aspects of environmental pollution and protection, including water, waste and noise pollution.

Since 2015 when new Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies was established, activities are more focused on implementation of state of the art computer technologies in environmental protection, and researchers from both faculties put joint efforts into establishing a new research group: Information Communication Technologies for Environment - ICT4Env capable to cope with the highest complexities demanded by the environmental processes using interdisciplinary approach and knowledge from ICT, Mechatronics and Environmental Engineering related disciplines.

Aleksandar Markoski

Environmental Informatics, Sensor Systems, Industrial Informatics

Tome Dimovski

Assoc. professor
(Ad-hoc networks, Wireless sensor networks, Databases)

Ramona Markoska

Professor
(Genetic Programming, Semantic Web, Web programming)

Zoran Kotevski

Assoc. professor
(Image Processing, Multimedia Networks, Web Design)
30
Years Experience
20
Related Projects
27
Related Publications
25
Partners in Different Projects

Related Papers

  1. Markoski, A., Rendevski, N., Pasic, R., Dimovski, T., Markoska, R., Kotevski, Z. (2018) "Air Quality Crowdsensing in Smart Cities using Low Cost IoT Systems and ICT4Env Platform" (presentation), 4-th Italian Conference on ICT for Smart Cities And Communities, 19-21 September, L'Aquila, Italy, 2018.

  2. Bajraktarov, Lj, Rendevski, N., Kotevski, Z., Hristovski, I., Markoska, R. (2018) "Design of LoRaWAN Service Infrastructure Solution for D2D Communication over Physical 433 MHz Wireless Link", Proceedings of the 8-th International conference on Applied Internet and Information Technologies, ISBN 978-9989-870-80-4, pp. 150-153, Bitola, Oct. 2018.

  3. Rendevski, N., Pajkovski, D., Kotevski, Z., Hristovski, I., Markoska, R. (2018) "Low-Complex Real-Time Edge Detection with a Compact FPGA Architecture for Embedded IoT Applications", 53rd International Scientific Conference on Information, Communication and Energy Systems and Technologies, Proceedings of Papers, pp. 322-325, Sozopol, Bulgaria, June 28 – 30, 2018

  4. Dimovski, T., Koltovska, D., Kotevski, Z., Markoski, A., Hristovski, I. (2018) "A model for an Integrated Intelligent Decision Support System for Environmental Urban Traffic Management", ICT Innovations 2018, Web Proceedings, pp.75-83, ISSN 1857-7288.

  5. Markoski, A., Rendevski, N., Pasic, R., Markoska, R. (2017) "Realization of Low-Cost IoT System for Environmental Monitoring: Potential and Challenges" (oral presentation), 3rd International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology (ICOEST), 19 - 23 October, Budapest Hungary.

  6. Z.Marinov and A.Markoski (2017) “Development of Low-Power Wireless Sensor Network for improving the Energy Efficiency in Buildings”, 52nd International Scientific Conference on Information, Communication and Energy Systems and Technologies – Serbia, Niš, June 28 – 30, 2017.

  7. Mateski, G., Markoska, R., Markoski, A. (2017) "Development of Low-Cost Wireless Sensor Network for Solid Waste Management", Proceedings of the 7-th International conference on Applied Internet and Information Technologies, pp. 178-185, Zrenjanin, Oct. 2017.

  8. Markoska, R., Mateski, G., Markoski, A. (2017) "Solid Waste Collection and Management using Smart Algorithm based on Genetic Programming", Proceedings of the 7-th International conference on Applied Internet and Information Technologies, pp. 200-207, Zrenjanin, Oct. 2017.

  9. A.Markoski, M.Kostov, R.Markoska, M.Petkovski (2015) "Knowledge Discovery from Plume Rise Images Using Wavelet Transform and Genetic Programming" (oral presentation), The 8th International Conference on Machine Vision, 19-21 November 2015, Barcelona, Spain.

  10. B.Angelevska, A.Markoski (2014). ”Building an Air Quality Management System – Approaches and Challenges”, Book of Proceedings, International May Conference on Strategic Management, Bor, Srbija, ISBN 978-86-6305-019-8, pp.349-356.

  11. Pasic, R., Jolevski, I., Markoski, A. (2014) ”Vehicle sensor node for smart parking’s of the future”, ICT Innovations 2014, Web Proceedings, ISSN 1857-7288.

  12. M. Kostov, A. Markoski, M. Petkovski, R. Markoska, “Plume Boundaries Extraction by Multiresolution and Least Squares Approximation”, International conference on Applied Internet and Information Technologies, Zrenjanin, Oct. 2013.

  13. B.Angelevska, A,Markoski, (2013) “Urban Transport and Air Quality – Case Study tor the Town of Bitola" Part I and Part II, IV-th International Conference Towards a Humane City – Transport in cities of Southeastern Europe, Novi Sad, Proceedings pp. 235-249.

  14. Pasic,R., Markoski,A., Jolevski,I. (2012) "Development of Student training Environment for Embedded Sensor Applications", International Conference on Perspectives of Mechatronics Engineering, PME 2012, Ohrid, pp. 36-38.

  15. 1B. Angelevska, A.Markoski (2011) “Calculation of Urban Transport Emissions: A Case Study For the Town Of Bitola“, Automation in Transportation, KoREMA 2011, Zagreb.

  16. Andreevski I., Kanevce G., Kanevce Lj., Markoski A., Stavreva S., (2011) “Development and Application of Regulatory Dispersion Model for Air Pollution Assesment”, 10th Conference Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and Information Technology, DEMI 2011, Banja Luka

  17. Jolevski I.; Markoski A.; Pasic R, (2011) "Smart vehicle sensing and classification node with energy aware vehicle classification algorithm"; ITI 2011, 33rd International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, Cavtat/Dubrovnik, Croatia.

  18. B. Angelevska, A.Markoski (2009) „Air Quality Management System for Air Pollution Assessment“, 17th International Symposium on Electronics in Transport - ISEP 2009, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

  19. B. Angelevska, A.Markoski (2009) “Air Quality Assessment Based on GIS as a Decision Support Tool”, Suvremeni promet, Vol. 29 N° 3-4, pp 261-265, ISSN 0351-1898.

  20. B. Angelevska, A.Markoski (2008) „Dispersion models for air pollution from exhaust emission“,16th International Symposium on Electronics in Transport - ISEP 2008, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  21. Markoski (2007) „Air Pollution Modelling for Regulatory Purposes“ Workshop 1, INTERREG III project, ”Development of a knowledge of education and research institutes active in environmental issues for the development of a common cooperation framework, for the harmonization with EU legislation and know – how transfer”, Thessaloniki, Greece.

  22. Andreevski, A. Markoski, G. Trombev, L. Kanevce, G. Kanevce (2006) Mogucnosti verifikacije modela za simulaciju disperzije polutanata Proceedings PROCESING 2006.

  23. Kanevce G., Kanevce L., Markoski A., Trombev G., 2001, Madam-MP: A Meteorogical Preprocessor for the Advanced Air Dispersion Model, Journal of Environmental Protection and Ecology, Vol 2 No. 3, 2001, pp 662-668

  24. Kanevce L., Kanevce G., Markoski A., Trombev G., (2001), “Intercomparison of Different Models for Estimation of the Bitola Power Plant Air Quality Impact”, Journal of Environmental Protection and Ecology, Vol 2 No. 4, 2001, pp 818-823.

  25. Kanevce, G.H, Kanevce, Lj.P, Markoski, A. (1999) Estimation of the Air Quality Impact of the Bitola Power Plant, Sixth International Conference on Harmonization within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regylatory Purposes, 11-14 October, Rouen, France.

  26. G.Kanevce, A.Markoski (1995) Analysis og Empirical and Integral Models for Air Dispersion Calculations, Proceedings of V conference SHMT, pp 89-99, Ohrid.

  27. A.MArkoski, G.Kanevce (1991) Imission in Elevated Inversion Meteorological Conditions, Proceedings of III conference SHMT, SKopje (book 2).

Related Projects

  1. ICT for Environment (2015 - 2017), Research project - Faculty of ICT

  2. TSAES: Technology for Sustainable Automation of Energy-Systems ( Apr 2013 – Mar 2015), Financed by Zentrum für Soziale Innovation, Austria

  3. DEREL: Development of Environmental and Resources Engineering Learning (Dec 2010 – Jun 2014), 511001-TEMPUS-1-2010-IT-TEMPUS-JPCR

  4. DRIMS: Development of Regional Interdisciplinary Mechatronics Studies (2010 – 2012), TEMPUS IV Project 158644 – DE – JPCR

  5. Traffic and transportation Study of Bitola part: environmental impact assesment (2010 - 2011) financed by Municipality of Bitola.

  6. Testing of innovative strategies for clean urban transport in European historical cities (15.09.2008 - 15.09.2012) Project acronym RENNAISANCE, Grant agreement no. 21912, FP7 Project

  7. Development of a knowledge network of educational and research institutes active in environmental issues for the development of a common cooperation framework, for the harmonization with EU legislation and know how transfer (October 2006 – October 2007), INTERREG IIIA Project

  8. MADAM – Macedonian Dispersion Atmospheric Model (2000 – 2003), National project, financed by Ministry of Education and Science

  9. Pre-feasibility Study for Medial-term Development of Public Utilities in Municipality Bitola (May 2000 – May 2001) PHARE - Cross Border Cooperation financed project

  10. GHG Abatement Analysis In Republic Of Macedonia (1999) United Nations Development Programme, Project Office MCD/99/G31/A/1G/99

  11. Transport and Environment (1999) PHARE project N4058.01.001, project coordinator DHV Netherlands

  12. Air Pollution Modelling for Regulatory Purposes (1998 – 1999), Financed by UNESCO

  13. Thermal Electricity and the Environment (1996 – 1997), Financed by UNESCO

  14. Thermal Power Plants and the Environment (1994 – 1995), National project, financed by Ministry of Science

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ICT4Env approach for solving environmental problems (8 steps)

  1. Spatial and temporal definition of the environmental problem

    2.    - macro and micro locations

       - sampling intervals

       - detecting the needs for efficient coverage with sensor nodes

  2. Development and simulation of sensor network concept

    3.    - selection of measured variables, selection and/or design of custom made sensor nodes

       - development of network infrastructure and topology

       - production of custom embedded sensor nodes

       - development of mobile sensor nodes mounted on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)

  3. Development of database, server and cloud applications (back end)

  4. Data analyses using image, signal processing and intelligent algorithms.

  5. Development of GIS based visualization techniques

  6. Environmental modeling and simulation using newest artificial and computational intelligence algorithms

  7. Development of all necessary web services (front-end applications)

  8. Development of simulation what-if scenarios and integration into user-friendly Decision Support System with advanced visualization concepts