Air Quality Index Mapping Using Programmable Single Propeller UAV Towards Internet of Drone Things

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with the advances in technologies are becoming more common, UAV has become a platform to gather data that humans simply cannot reach. With the mobility of a drone, it can cover a lot of areas in a single take, greatly benefiting the data gathering process. However, conventional model drones like quadcopter configurations are big and costly for mass implementation such as in Internet of Drone Things. To handle these issues, this research proposed the use of a Single propeller drone design, drone with only 1 propeller, that can lower the cost of making the drone unit and ease the data gathering process. The single propeller drone gathers data for the air quality measurement device that uses DHT22 as the humidity and temperature sensor and MQ-135 as the air quality sensor. From the test result, carried out on Sukapura Football Field, Bandung, Indonesia, the single propeller was able to obtain the air quality, sent it to Google Firebase, and displayed it using smartphone. The test showed a slight difference result in the air quality data between different placements of the sensors on the single propeller drone. The test also showed the difference between stationary single propeller drone, which gave 103 ppm, with hovering drone, which gave 124 ppm. Furter test showed there were no differences between temperature and humidity result, with a maximum of 24
^o
C and 99.6% humidity. Besides the differences in the data quality, the test result was near accurate.