Artificial nose? Helping industry trace their leaks? MRTG for toxic gas?
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Contents
Sniffing
- Carbon Monoxide (CO), Hydrogen (H)
- Hydrogen (H), Ethanol (C2H6O), Iso-butane (CH3CH(CH3)2), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Methane (CH4)
- Toluene (C7H8), Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S), Ethanol (C2H6O), Ammonia (NH3), Hydrogen (H)
- Ethanol (C2H6O), Hydrogen (H), Iso-butane (CH3CH(CH3)2), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Methane (CH4)
Using
- Electronic components sensing various gaseous substances : http://www.selectronic.fr/soussousfamille.asp?fam_ref=05&sfam_ref=98&ssfam_ref=32
- http://www.nexsens.com/support/user_manuals.htm
- http://www.freeduino.org/
- http://www.rosiedaniel.com/2007/04/gas-sensors.html
- http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/sensors/Reports/GasSensors
Proposal
Project completed! http://lekernel.net/blog/?p=509
- Sensors: cheap sensors made by a company called Figaro - one TGS2600 + one TGS2602. Available at Radiospares and Diltronic (St Germain en Laye)
- Those sensors are already used by http://fridav.ljudmila.org (that's how we found them)
- Based on a Fonera which could connect to the /tmp/lab wireless network and directly post results on the internet
- Using SPI with Fonera: http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/262.html
- ADC: LTC2496 (lekernel: I have an evaluation kit)
- My LTC2496 driver for Linux (lekernel)
- A DCF sensor may be integrated to the sensor system as informations sent to the server will arrive in random order. More information here (french): http://kubuntu.free.fr/blog/index.php/2008/09/30/258-fonera-et-station-meteo-1-port-serie-et-openwrt and here: http://www.buzzard.me.uk/jonathan/radioclock.html
Resources
http://www.airparif.asso.fr/pages/polluants/surveillance http://w2.airparif.asso.fr/cgi-bin/station_files.pl?station=VITRY phone 800 phone number lookup
