Marija Zlata Božnar graduated in 1990 at the Ljubljana University, Faculty of Engineering and Computing. In the same year she joined the Section for Physics of low and medium energies at the Institute Jozef Stefan. She had been working for the Laboratory of monitoring systems, which in 1993 remodeled into independent company AMES d.o.o. She still works at the mentioned company.

Her work included cooperation and project management related to building complex monitoring systems for environmental monitoring (meteorology and air pollution). Within those projects, she was developing representation programes and interfaces for guiding the monitors to monitor air pollution.

Her research work in all these years was also related to air pollution. In 1992 she received Master’s Degree and in 1997 she finished her Doctor’s degree in developing a method for predicting gas concentrations in the air, modeled on the basis of neural networks. The group introduced this method to the world for the first time. Besides, the group also deals with numerical modeling of air polluting.

This year she is taking part at the project INES (transfer of the program equipment for automatic monitoring station into Linux environment).




Subject

Environmental Monitoring station with the operating system Linux

User's experiment "Environmental monitoring in the urban environment", which is a part of the INES project, will introduce a way to automatically follow environmental parameters in Slovenia with the use of monitoring network elements, built with open operating systems. As an example of a "good usage" it will mediate such exemplary usage not only to interested companies, local and governmental institutions, but also directly to citizens, who are more and more interested in environmental issues. Taking into account the fact that environmental problems know no bounds, the knowledge to be gained will also be very useful in other EU countries.

EIS - Environmental Information System is a complex of one or more automatic monitoring stations. As an example of the use of open source code, an installed automatic monitoring station, based on operating system Linux will be presented. Program equipment of the monitoring station is built on modules and ensures automatic gathering, examining, saving and reviewing data of environmental parameters. All the program modules of the monitoring station are made with the use of developing tool Qt. Qt. Developing environment enables development of unified program code, which can be translated and used at various operating systems. Communication among program modules is based on TCP/IP communicational protocol. Saving and gathering of saved data is running via ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) program interface.