1 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 OVERVIEW Over the past quarter century, there has been an exponential increase of industries, and these industries have caused complex and serious problems to the environment. The first and the foremost is the severe environmental pollution which has caused deterioration of atmosphere, climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, loss of biodiversity, changes in hydrological systems and the supplies of fresh water, land degradation and stresses on systems of food producing, acid rain, and global warming. In addition to industries, automobiles, agricultural activities, and even ordinary homes contribute towards the environmental pollution. It is well known that some of these chemical pollutants have increased Environmental pollution has several aspects. The most serious aspect of environmental pollution is the air pollution, while two other aspects are water and soil pollution. Most of the above air pollution and quality monitoring systems are based on sensors that report the pollutants levels to a server via wired modem, router, or short-range wireless access points. In this paper, we propose a system that integrates a single-chip microcontroller and several air pollution sensors (CO, NO 2 , and SO 2 ). The integrated unit is a sensor, Analog to digital converter and a Microcontroller. This unit can be placed on the top of any moving device such as a public transportation vehicle. While the vehicle is on the move, the microcontroller generates a frame consisting of the acquired air pollutant level from the sensors array and the physical location that is reported to the PC. Future work of this paper is pollutants frame uploaded to the ZIGBEE Modem and transmitted to the Pollution-Server via the public mobile network.
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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 OVERVIEW
Over the past quarter century, there has been an exponential increase of
industries, and these industries have caused complex and serious problems to
the environment. The first and the foremost is the severe environmental
pollution which has caused deterioration of atmosphere, climate change,
stratospheric ozone depletion, loss of biodiversity, changes in hydrological
systems and the supplies of fresh water, land degradation and stresses on
systems of food producing, acid rain, and global warming.
In addition to industries, automobiles, agricultural activities, and even
ordinary homes contribute towards the environmental pollution. It is well
known that some of these chemical pollutants have increased Environmental
pollution has several aspects. The most serious aspect of environmental
pollution is the air pollution, while two other aspects are water and soil
pollution.
Most of the above air pollution and quality monitoring systems are based
on sensors that report the pollutants levels to a server via wired modem, router,
or short-range wireless access points. In this paper, we propose a system that
integrates a single-chip microcontroller and several air pollution sensors (CO,
NO2, and SO2). The integrated unit is a sensor, Analog to digital converter and
a Microcontroller. This unit can be placed on the top of any moving device
such as a public transportation vehicle. While the vehicle is on the move, the
microcontroller generates a frame consisting of the acquired air pollutant level
from the sensors array and the physical location that is reported to the PC.
Future work of this paper is pollutants frame uploaded to the ZIGBEE
Modem and transmitted to the Pollution-Server via the public mobile network.
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A database server is attached to the Pollution-Server for storing the pollutants
level for further usage by interested clients such as environment production
agencies and vehicles regeneration authorities.
1.1.1 System Requirements
A system can be characterized according to its functional and non-
functional requirements. Functional requirements describe the primary
functionality of a system while non-functional requirements describe attributes
like reliability and security, etc.
The system’s functional requirements are as follows.
i. System must support accurate and continuous real-time data collection.
ii. System needs to store the data and provide access to a location map
interface.
iii. System needs to support mobility.
iv. System must use minimum power.
v. System must be accessible from the Internet.
vi. System must be compact.
vii. System must mostly use off-the-shelf devices, components, and
standards.
viii. System must support two-way communication between the client and
the server.
ix. System must be field-configurable.
x. System should be easy to deploy.
Non-functional requirements for the system dictate that the system is
reliable, portable, accurate, maintainable, secure, accessible, and usable. In
addition, the system must support performance standards for an adequate
response time and storage space for data.
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1.2 MOTIVATION OF THE WORK
The motivation of the project is to build an air pollution monitoring system,
so a detection system for multiple information of environment is designed in
this project. There is a growing demand for the environmental pollution
monitoring and control systems. In view of the ever-increasing pollution
sources with toxic chemicals, these systems should have the facilities to detect
and quantify the sources rapidly. This project is built for low cost, quick
response, low maintenance, ability to produce continuous measurements etc.
The main goal of this project is to control the air pollution, hazardous gases and
increase awareness about pollution by using air pollution monitoring system.
1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE WORK
The objective of the work is to measure the air pollutants level and
temperature range. Then the Acquired air pollutant level from the sensors array
will report to the PC. This system is used for acquiring the real-time data from
the sensors-array and the physical location, time and date of the sampled
pollutants from the GPS module. This information is then encapsulated into a
data frame by the microcontroller. Finally the acquired data will report to the
PC.
1.4 CHAPTER ORGANISATION
In this report, we propose an air pollution monitoring system. The rest of
the report is organized as follows.
i. Chapter 1 gives a brief introduction about air pollution
monitoring system.
ii. Chapter 2 deals with the Lliteratures collected related to the
pollution monitoring system.
iii. Chapter 3 discuss about the Mobile GPRS-sensors array for air
pollution monitoring system.
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iv. Chapter 4 chapter discussions are made about the work carried
out. Also outputs of the various blocks of the proposed air
pollution monitoring with ZIGBEE are mentioned.
v. Chapter 5 deals about the Conclusion and Future work.
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CHAPTER 2
LITERATURE SURVEY
2.1 AIR POLLUTION MONITORING SYSTEM BASED ON THE IEEE
STANDARD
An Environmental Air Pollution Monitoring System (EAPMS) for
monitoring the concentrations of major air pollutant gases complying with the
IEEE 1451.2 standard. This system measures concentrations of gases such as
CO, NO2, SO2, and O3 using semiconductor sensors. The smart transducer
interface module (STIM) is implemented using the analog devices’ ADuC812
microconverter. Network Capable Application Processor (NCAP) was
developed using a personal computer and connected to the STIM via the
transducer independent interface. Three gas sensors were calibrated using the
standard calibration methods [1]. Gas concentration levels and information
regarding the STIM can be seen on the graphical user interface of the NCAP.
Further, the EAPMS is capable of warning when the pollutant levels exceed
predetermined maxima.
2.2 A WEARABLE AND WIRELESS SENSOR SYSTEM FOR REAL-
TIME MONITORING
An integrated volatile organic toxicants sensor with a Bluetooth device
interface. The device is based on novel tuning fork sensor platform along with
a wireless communication/ interface technology taken in an integrated system
approach [2]. It features high sensitivity and selectivity. The sensitivity and
selectivity are accomplished through the use of novel tuning fork sensor
modified by design polymers and selective filtering. Experiments have shown
that the device can detect toxic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) under high
concentrations of common interferents from flavours and fragrances.
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2.3 AIR POLLUTION MONITORING SYSTEM BASED ON
GEOSENSOR NETWORK
Environment Observation and Forecasting System (EOFS) is an
application for monitoring and providing a forecasting about environmental
phenomena. We design an air pollution monitoring system which involves a
context model and a flexible data acquisition policy. The context model is used
for understanding the status of air pollution on the remote place [3]. It can
provide an alarm and safety guideline depending on the condition of the
context model. It also supports the flexible sampling interval change for
effective the trade-off between sampling rates and battery lifetimes. This
interval is changed depending on the pollution conditions derived from the
context model. It can save the limited batteries of geo-sensors, because it
reduces the number of data transmission.
2.4 TEMPORAL AIR QUALITY MONITORING USING
SURVEILLANCE CAMERA
This paper is to report upon the usage of an internet surveillance camera
to record the temporal development and to map the spatial distribution of air
quality concentration. An internet surveillance camera was used to quantify air
quality with our own developed algorithm, which is based on the regression
analysis of the relationship between measured reflectance components from a
surface material and the atmosphere [4]. A newly developed algorithm was
applied to compute the temporal development of PM values.
2.5 MONITORING SYSTEM WITH WIRELESS NETWORK BASED
ON EMBEDDED SYSTEM
This paper proposes a remote monitoring system for the greenhouse
environment. The system can be set in the monitoring spot. Real time data
which gathered and simply disposed can be transmitted to the remote server by
wireless module-GPRS &. CDMA IX. The dynamic WEB publishing can be
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realized by the ASP.NET technique in the remote server. Embedded operation
system-GC/OS-II has been ported in the system's microchip. GC/OS-II can
manage collecting, displaying and saving data and so on. This method can
significantly improve the system's Real-time, reliability and expansibility [5].
The remote monitoring system can realize the real time publishing and the
historical data request.
2.6 REMOTE MONITORING SYSTEM WITH WIRELESS SENSORS
MODULE
This paper focuses on realizing the wireless remote monitoring Mud-
rock Flow landslide in remote or complex regional geological environment, on
basis of the conclusion of wired image monitoring system, proposed a wireless
remote image monitoring system based on GSM/GPRS and ARM_Linux
developing environment. Firstly, design the overall of the system, analysis the
structure of the system’s hardware and software [6]. Then, use the APIs of
Video4Linux kernel to realize image acquisition of the system, through PPP
dial-up to access the GPRS, through network programming to realize the
transmission of the image.
2.7 DESIGN OF AIR POLLUTION MONITORING SYSTEM USING
ZIGBEE NETWORKS
This paper focuses on implementation of air pollution monitoring
system. First, each sensor was tested after survey about market trends of a
variety of sensors for detecting air pollution. Second, wireless communication
modules for monitoring system were developed using wireless sensor networks
technologies based on ZIGBEE. And then a performance of modules was
estimated in the real-fields [7]. Through software programs written in NES C
for efficient routing in wireless networks were simulated using TOSSIM
simulator. Finally, integrated wireless sensor board which employs dust, CO2,
temperature /humidity sensor and a ZIGBEE module was developed.
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2.8 POLLUMAP: A POLLUTION MAPPER FOR CITIES
PolluMap is a new automated system that monitors the air quality of
urban cities and displays the information using a web service. The system
collects pollution data using mobile hardware modules, transmits the data
regularly using GPRS to a back-end server, and integrates the data to generate a
pollution map of the city using its geographical information system [8]. The
pollution map is available at any time from an easy-to-view website. Unlike
previous pollution mappers, the new system provides continuous update of
pollution information in addition to maximum coverage. It can be easily
expanded to new areas and is cheap to employ.
2.9 AIR QUALITY MONITORING USING ALOS SATELLITE
IMAGE
The aim of this study is to develop a state-of-art reliable technique to
use surveillance camera for monitoring the temporal patterns of PM10
concentration in the air. Once the air quality reaches the alert thresholds, it will
provide warning alarm to alert human to prevent from long exposure to these
fine particles. This is important for human to avoid the above mentioned
adverse health effects. In this study, an internet protocol (IP) network camera
was used as an air quality monitoring sensor [9]. It is a 0.3 mega pixel Charge-
Couple-Device (CCD) camera integrates with the associate electronics for
digitization and compression of images. This network camera was installed on
the rooftop of the School of Physics. The camera observed a nearby hill, which
was used as a reference target. At the same time, this network camera was
connected to network via a cat 5 cable or wireless to the router and modem,
which allowed image data transfer over the standard computer networks
(Ethernet networks), internet, or even wireless technology. Then images were
stored in a server, which could be accessed locally or remotely for computing
the air quality information with a newly developed algorithm. The results were
compared with the alert thresholds. If the air quality reaches the alert threshold,
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alarm will be triggered to inform us this situation. The newly developed
algorithm was based on the relationship between the atmospheric reflectance
and the corresponding measured air quality of PM10 concentration. In situ
PM10 air quality values were measured with DustTrakTM
meter and the sun
radiation was measured simultaneously with a spectroradiometer. Regression
method was use to calibrate this algorithm. Still images captured by this
camera were separated into three bands namely red, green and blue (RGB), and
then Digital Numbers (DN) were determined. These DN were used to
determine the atmospherics reflectance values of difference bands, and then
used these values in the newly developed algorithm to determine PM10
concentration. The results of this study showed that the proposed algorithm
produced a high correlation coefficient (R2) of 0.7567 and low root-mean-
square error (RMS) of ± 5μg/m3
between the measured and estimated PM10
concentration.
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CHAPTER 3
MOBILE DAQ UNIT
3.1 GPRS-SENSORS FOR AIR POLLUTION MONITORING SYSTEM
The proposed system consists of a Mobile Data-Acquisition Unit
(Mobile-DAQ) and a fixed Internet-Enabled Pollution Monitoring Server
(Pollution-Server). The Mobile-DAQ unit integrates a single-chip
microcontroller, air pollution sensors array, a General Packet Radio Service
Modem (GPRS-Modem), and a Global Positioning System Module (GPS-
Module). The Pollution-Server is a high-end personal computer application
server with Internet connectivity. The Mobile-DAQ unit gathers air pollutants
levels (CO, NO2, and SO2), and packs them in a frame with the GPS physical
location, time, and date. The frame is subsequently uploaded to the GPRS-
Modem and transmitted to the Pollution-Server via the public mobile network.
A database server is attached to the Pollution- Server for storing the pollutants
level for further usage by various clients such as environment protection
agencies, vehicles registration authorities, and tourist and insurance companies.
The Pollution-Server is interfaced to Google Maps to display real-time
pollutants levels and locations in large metropolitan areas.
3.2 HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE
To satisfy the system’s functional and non-functional requirements, two
major building blocks are needed, namely: a Mobile Data-Acquisition Unit
(Mobile-DAQ) and a fixed Internet-Enabled Pollution monitoring Server
(Pollution-Server). The Mobile-DAQ unit is designed by integrating the
following hardware modules shown in Fig.3.2. As the figure shows, the
Mobile-DAQ consists of a 16-bit single-chip microcontroller integrated with a
sensor array using analog ports. The Mobile-DAQ is also connected to a GPS
module and a GPRS-Modem using the RS-232 interface. Each of these
components is described in the following.
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Block Diagram
Figure 3.1 Air pollution monitoring system
Power
Supply
Micro
Controller
GAS
SENSOR
Temperature
SENSOR
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C
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UART
GPRS
Transceiver
GPS
MODULE
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3.2.1 16-Bit Single-Chip Microcontroller
The microcontroller is a single-chip device that has rich built-in
resources for digital input/output ports, 16 channels, 8/10 bits analog-to-digital