uav based air quality monitoring system8871

Project Title

Project Area of Specialization

Internet of Things

Project Summary

As we know about growing concerns on air pollution in large cities urge the development of new and existing cities technologies to monitor and improve air quality of the cities. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is getting attentions in air monitoring applications outside Pakistan, This system due to its high maneuverability in both horizontal and vertical dimensions to obtain high-spatial-resolution and near-surface vertical pro?ling of atmosphere pollution. Low cost micro-sensors add additional advantages to UAVs to offer numerous advantages for capturing the spatial and temporal variability of air pollutants. Despite all these exciting prospects, challenges need to be studied and addressed to exploit UAV technologies for air quality monitoring. The design of this project will enables a UAV to carry multiple sensors to accomplish real-time monitoring of multiple air pollutants. Our prototype and experiments will verify the feasibility of the system and show that it features a stable and high precision spatial-temporal platform for air sample collection.

Project Objectives

Targeting multiple air pollutants.
bring energy efficiency and in flight time of frone.
Synchronization of sensors data and GPS data.
Safety of UAV and integrated system.

Achieveing these all objectives we we have to face all challenges and we are quite hopeful and motivated to achieve this goal by designing this UAV based Air Quality Monitoring System.

Project Implementation Method

Implementation of project are as follow:

Research on component
Selection of ideal components according to our project.
Designing of integrated system where modules and sensor are going to integrated.
Placing of system on UAV drone.
Receiving the data in real time to ground station.
uploading of data to cloud.
checking of accuracy of designed system.

Benefits of the Project

these type of projects are quite beneficial for regions like sub continent cause the air quality in this region getting worst as the world is moving forward.

Such projects can help to reduce excessive use of technologies and restrict authorities to implement any policy related to this issue.

Not only authorities but citizens of that region gets aware from such health threats.

These projects can bring authorities to taht level where they make any decision to protect lives as well as nature.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

In our system we are using ?ve modules: the UAV, the ground station, the sensors, the data acquisition modules (DA) and the data fusion module (DF). The operations of the UAV is controlled by the ground station. The UAV has a ?ight controller that directs the UAV to accomplish speci?c tasks according to a ?ight plan. The UAV reports its status to the ground station through its communication module. We adopt existing hardware and software of the UAV and the ground station.
The air pollutant sensors vary greatly in their working mechanisms. Each sensor is made for one speci?c air pollutant, such as particles or nitrogen dioxide, and produces different kinds of signals, the sensors do not send data directly to the ground station. Rather, we use the data fusion module to aggregate data from the sensors. Then, we use the UAV’s communication module to send the aggregated sensor data to the ground station.
For high throughput data, we deploy WiFi as the communication mechanism, although the WiFi communication distance is limited in comparison to the telemetry radio communication. Because the sensor data is transmitted to the ground station in real time, we also add new software components in the ground station to receive, store and analyze data.