Dogo Rangsang Research Journal UGC Care Group I Journal

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AIR QUALITY MONITORING SYSTEM USING ARDUINO

Mr.D.Tilak Raju, Assistant professor, ECE, Vignan’s Institute of Engineering For Women
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K.Shivani, 3T.Sahitya Bharathi , 4M.Yamini , 5P.charishma , Student, ECE, Vignan’s Institute of
Engineering For Women

ABSTRACT
Air pollution is one of the most adverse issues in the environment. It causes major effects like cancer, heart
diseases and lung diseases etc. Air pollution which is caused by solid, liquid particles and some gases that are
present in the air. These particles and gases are evolved by industry, transport, factories.
To detect the quality of air, the Arduino based air quality monitoring system is used to monitor the air quality.
The buzzer starts beeping whenever the air quality goes below a threshold level, that means a lot of harmful
gases are present in the environment such as carbon dioxide, smoke, alcohol, benzene, NH3 and NOx. The
quality of air is shown by PPM on the LCD screen. By this the air quality can be monitored easily.
In this system, Arduino Uno, MQ135 gas sensor and some other components are used. Arduino has high speed
and compatibility compared to the others.MQ135 gas sensor is used to detect the harmful gases which present
in the air and can be measured accurately and it shows the concentration in PPM.
KEYWORDS : MQ135 gas sensor, Arduino Uno.

INTRODUCTION
Air pollution is the biggest problem of every nation, whether it is developing or developing. Health problems
have been growing at a faster rate mostly in the urban areas of developing countries where industries and
numbers of vehicles lead to the release of a lot of gas pollutants. It has an adverse impact on the living
organisms like humans, animals, food crops etc. It may result in allergies, harmful diseases such as
cardiovascular diseases, lung diseases and can also cause death. Every year nearly 1.2 million Indians die due
to air borne pollutants. According to the survey, due to air pollution 50,000 to 100,000 premature deaths over
a year occur in the U.S whereas in the EU the number reaches to 300,000 and over 3,000,000 worldwide.
Air pollution monitoring system monitors the air quality using Arduino and the buzzer will beep if the air
quality is less than the threshold level, meaning the harmful gases where present in the air such as CO2, NH3,
LPG, benzene, alcohol, smoke and NOx. It will show air quality in PPM on the LCD screen.

LITERATURE SURVEY
The drawback of WIFI- enabled indoor air quality monitoring and control system the current work focuses on
the control of the particulate matter PM 2.5 concentration, and can be extended to humidity control as well as
network control over wireless sensor and actuator networks which makes the design complex.
A low-power real-time air quality monitoring system using LPWAN based on LoRa is a technology that has a
drawback of complexity and space occupancy; it needs more equipment. This technology is more expensive.
An embedded system model for Air Quality Monitoring is drawback of present National air quality
monitoring network is limited in scope as the recorded values are indicative and there is immense time lag in
reporting the data. So real time action is not possible.

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BLOCK DIAGRAM

The data of air is recognized by the MQ135 gas sensor. The MQ135 sensor can sense NH3, NOx, alcohol,
Benzene, smoke, CO2. So, it is a dynamic gas sensor for our Air pollution Monitoring system. When it is
connected to Arduino then it will sense all gases, and it will give the Pollution level in terms of PPM (parts
per million).
The MQ135 gas sensor will give the output in the form of voltage levels and we have to convert it into PPM.
So, for converting the output in PPM, we have used a library for the MQ135 gas sensor. The MQ135 gas
sensor and POT-HG are connected to the input of the Arduino Uno.
The output of Arduino Uno is connected to the buzzer, LCD, virtual terminal and led. After executing the
code, if the ppm is less than the threshold, then the air quality will be Good and it displays on the LCD screen
that “AQ Level Good”. The buzzer will be turned off.
If the ppm is greater than the threshold, the air quality will be high and it displays on the LCD screen that “AQ
Level High”. the buzzer will be turned on. The virtual terminal will display the output. Led will glow when
threshold level goes high and led will start to glow when threshold level goes high.

METHOD AND METHODOLOGY

To implement the method there are many different types of technologies and ways.But we have opted for the
motive of the Air quality management system using Arduino as it is very efficient and easy process to get the
concentration of the particulate matter (PM) in the form of PPM (parts per million). This method we have
considered is very less expensive and in addition to this it is an easy go technique where we can get our
desired applications to happen.

RESULTS
Here the Air Quality is measured in terms of ppm (parts per million). If the ppm is greater than the threshold
value that we have fixed, Then the LED blinks, and Buzzer turns on and prints “AQ LEVEL HIGH” If its
high particulate matter is high and the air is impure and needs to be purified.

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If the ppm is less than the threshold value, Then we turn off LED, and Buzzer turns on and prints “AQ
LEVEL LOW” If its high particulate matter is high and the air is impure and no need to be purified.

CONCLUSION
As the air pollution is increasing day by day due to human activities, it is desirable to take measurements to
resolve the problem on the basis of the particulate matter present in the atmosphere. In our project, various
techniques for measuring the particulate matter concentration are analysed. Compared to the others. The
circuit for the air quality management system has been designed using Arduino Uno, MQ135 messenger and
other components through and Arduino software is such a way that it shows that particular concentration in
PPM. Stimulation results suggest that the proposed design of air quality management system using Arduino

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has less circuit complexity and high performance compared to other techniques that can be incorporated in
higher applications. The proposed method is used in both indoor and outdoor air quality monitoring.

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