Mobile wireless system for outdoor air quality monitoring

Abstract

Outdoor air quality monitoring plays crucial role on preventing environment pollution. The idea of use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in this area is of great interest cause they provide more flexibility than ground systems. The main focus of this work is to propose alternative, competitive outdoor wireless monitoring system that will allow to collect pollution data, detect and locate leakage places within petrol, gas and refinery stations or in hard to reach places. This system should be lightweight, compact, could be mounted on any UAV, operate in GPS denied environments and should be easily deployed and piloted by operator with minimal risk to his health. This paper presents the system, configured on a commercial UAV AR.Drone, embedding gas sensor to it, where as a ground station stands Robot Operation System. Conducted first stage experiments proved capabilities of our system to operate in real-world conditions and serve as a basis to carry out further research.