Environmental Monitoring System Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and WSN

Abstract

In this work, a mobile real-time monitoring system for air quality is proposed. The developed system uses UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) and WSN (wireless sensor networks), increasing the area of analysis and difficult access. The electronic instrumentation was integrated with an array of sensors, microcontroller, memory and RF modules. The acquired data is stored, processed and transmitted to a computer as a base station through wireless communication, where a developed graphical interface shows the concentrations of polluting gases present in the atmosphere at a minimum height of 10 to 300 m. The weight, size and power consumption of the miniaturized system are 100 g, 50 ´ 50 ´ 30 cm and 1.5 W respectively. The System was powered by an ion-Li 300 mA/hr battery. The system has the ability to detect important criteria pollutants such as carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and other polluting gases such as Ethanol (C2H5OH), Hydrogen (H2), Ammonia (NH3) and suspended particles PM2.5.

Keywords

• air quality
• wsn
• uav
• criterial pollutants
• suspended particles pm2.5