FTM-GCN: A novel technique for gas concentration predicting in space with sensor nodes

Accurate and real-time prediction of gas concentrations is a critical component of intelligent prediction systems and holds significant importance for production safety and quality of life. However, due to the constraints of the network topology in gas sensor networks and the temporal nature of gas concentration variations, concentration prediction has always been considered a significant challenge. To simultaneously capture the spatiotemporal correlations in gas concentration data with spatiotemporal characteristics, this study proposes a fully-connected temporal multilayer graph convolutional network (FTM-GCN). This method combines multiple graph convolutional layers (MGC), fully connected layers, and gated recurrent units (GRU). FTM-GCN exhibits three prominent features: (1) It leverages MGC to learn the topology of gas sensor networks, enhancing the model's ability to graph data and capture spatial characteristics. MGC is incorporated to capture spatial features in the data. (2) GRU is employed to capture the dynamic changes in sensor network data and the temporal characteristics of the data. (3) Continuous fully-connected layers are introduced to enhance the model's performance. Experimental results demonstrate that FTM-GCN effectively captures the spatiotemporal correlations in spatiotemporal data across various prediction perspectives and outperforms GCN, GRU, T-GCN and STGCN.