Development of prototype system for monitoring and computing greenhouse gases with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) deployment

This paper presents the development of prototype system for monitoring and computing greenhouse gases (GHG) with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) deployment for collecting data for different nodes. This system is based on wireless ZigBee technology that transfers the data wirelessly to UAV, which function is as a router, from which data is sent again to a data logger. An ATMEGA328P microcontroller is used to compute parameters such as CO₂, O₂, temperature and humidity. All the environmental parameters are measured on real time and are being stored in Secured Digital (SD) card for every 30 seconds interval. The data is collected at Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia in Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia using UAV at several nodes. The results show that the system is able to trace and record CO₂, O₂, temperature and humidity level, which are important parameters for studies related to global warming.