Drone-Based Aerial Surveillance and Real-Time Hazardous Gas Leakage Detection System with Power BI Dashboard Integration for Enhanced Environmental Safety

This paper focuses on an embedded system for air quality control and hazardous gas detection using multiple sensors to trigger real-time danger alerts. The system employs and integrates gas sensors MQ-2, MQ-3, and MQ-9, temperature, and humidity sensors for assessing many combustible gases including methane, carbon monoxide alcohol smoke and even fire. These sensors send signals to an embedded microcontroller which controls air and environmental quality for the circumferential range. Apart from the gas sensors, a fire sensor has been integrated within the system, improving its efficiency in ascertaining cases of fire outbreak in the presence of gas leakages. In addition to this, Power BI works with the system for sensor monitoring and data visualization through the sensors being connected online. The dashboard shows the most important parameters such as the level of gas leakage and the type of gas involved, the temperature of the surroundings, and the humidity. Power BI supports how to visualize what is going on at that time to monitor environmental conditions, how bad is the gas leakage, and make quick decisions. The dashboard also helps in looking out for risks by showing past trends of data and carrying out market predictions. The integration of multi-sensor systems with a drone is intensified to outstretch the boundaries even further where remote monitoring of industrial sites, areas that have been hit by disasters, and even of cities, is possible. The drone equipped with the embedded system provides the real time gas leak detection temperature, humidity monitoring and fire threat assessment in environments where the human presence is quite dangerous. This system is also easy, cheap and provides an admirable solution for environmental monitoring on a day to day basis for the sake of public safety, reduction in the response rates to dangerous situations and the encouragement of smart city designs. The research in this study focused on both stationary and mobile wirelessly enabled embedded systems for real time data acquisition and their application in drones for environmental monitoring and risk management using low cost and real time systems.