About multicopters and other smart devices for environmental monitoring

In recent years, the development of smart and mobile devices gained more and more attention. Here, embedded systems provide a fast and convenient way for the implementation of new applications that allow for flexible and innovative interaction with our environment. Additionally, the development in the area of embedded systems does not only provide an easy and flexible way for interaction with the environment, but at the same time also a very cost efficient way. This paper presents an approach that utilizes multicopters, equipped with a small embedded system that allows to monitor environmental data like the current CO
₂
value and other measures for air quality in realtime. Furthermore, with a multilevel measurement concept, the described system allows for a later on analysis of the gathered data and collected gas probes in more detail. Finally, the system provides the datasets for further analysis and/or visualization.