International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE)
ISSN: 2278-3075, Volume-8 Issue-10, August 2019
3893
Published By:
Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering
& Sciences Publication
Retrieval Number J99030881019/19©BEIESP
DOI: 10.35940/ijitee.J9903.0881019
Abstract: Chennai is one of the oldest metropolitan city in India
which consists of 15 zones and more than 200 wards. Chennai has
the population of more than 8 million people and more than 20
tons of garbage collected and dumped into the two of the
dumpyards Kodunkaiyur and Perungudy. These two dumpyards
are catering the needs of the garbage and landfills collected from
these zones, in which they are used to burn and disposed. The
burning of waste is resulted into emission of higher amount of
CO2. The decayed waste is one of the source for generating
Methane and other greenhouse gases. This is dangerous for
human lives and affects the environment. There is no such system
has available to detect the CO2 and CH4 level automatically at
these dumpyards. If a system automatically detects the level of
CO2 and CH4 and make it available in a public domain, it will be
helpful to the city administration to take the precautionary steps.
Therefore, the need of the hour is to design a cloud enabled IoT
based system to monitor the level of CO2 and CH4 and upload
these data in the cloud for further processing. The sensor is
installed in 20 of different places of these two dumpyard for
monitoring the level of CO2 and CH4. The data is collected and
uploaded in the cloud. The open source cloud platform Openstack
is used to store all the recorded data into the cloud. The webpage
www.chennaighgemissions.in is designed and the sensed data is
available for public use. The system is successfully implemented
and tested, and the test result is promising.
Keywords : Green House Gas, IoT, Openstack Cloud.
I. INTRODUCTION
Chennai is one of the oldest metropolitan city in India with
the population of over 90 lakhs people living in the city. Over
3600 tons of garbage is collected every day from various
places and transferred to dumpyards. There are two
dumpyards Kodunkaiyur and Perungudy with the capacity of
269 acres and 200 acres respectively for catering the needs of
disposing solid wastes and building debris. The report shows
that the average garbage of 650 Gms is generated by an
individual daily. The garbage are collected by various sources
and segregated as solid waste, plastic and bio-degradable and
non biodegradable waste etc. The bio-degradable organic
waste is processed at the dumpyard station itself and solid
waste are recycled. In essence, Ozone layers used to protect
our earth from high temperature and other radiation from the
solar system. The increasing quantum of carbon dioxide
emitted from various sources like automobile, electricity
production, transport and other industrial hazards polluted the
environment more. The higher the carbon is dangerous to the
Revised Manuscript Received on August 05, 2019
Jeberson Retna Raj, Department of Information Technology, School
Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India.
Sasipraba, School of Computing, Sathyabama Institute of Science and
Technology, Chennai, India
human as irritation in eyes, skin deceases and it leads to
cancer. Another important threat to human lives is methane
(CH4). The higher the level of methane which impacts
subsequently affects the human and environment. Both
elements are dangerous and the higher the level which leads to
the depletion of ozone layer. This leads to severe damage to
environment and living natures. Furthermore, the cyclic
nature of environment will be affected and these two elements
are further influences the phenomena of climate change.
Climate change affects the environment with key elements
like rising temperature, loss of rainfall, risen of sea level,
severe downpour, drought etc. Dumpyards are the one of the
source for generating CO2 and CH4 vehemently. The survey
shows that the burning of the wastes from these dumpyard
posing severe threat to the nearby people and the remedy
measures are recommended to corporation for reducing the
impact. In this paper, the level of CO2 and CH4 is monitored
with the help of Internet of Things (IoT) and the data is
collected and stored into the cloud. Furthermore, the level of
CO2 and CH4 is analyzed for taking precautionary measures.
The total of 40 sensor node for CO2 and CH4 is installed in
Kodunkaiyur and Perungudy dumpyards. These sensors
output the levels CO2 and CH4 data continuously and send to
the openstack cloud server and web server. From the server
the data is processed and the range is analyzed. If the range is
higher than the threshold value, the system sends an alert to
the concerned officials. The monitored data is available in the
public domain for future reference.
A. Related work
Numerous papers are presented for the effects of CO2
emissions and the consequences of higher the CH4. These
works are concentrating the measurement of CO2 emissions
manually and limited in automatic detection. The proposed
work is focused on monitoring and measuring greenhouse
gases at dumpyard automatically. In [1], CO2 enrichment
technique is discussed. Quantifying city scale CO2 emission
is discussed and presented a strategy to reduce the level of
CO2 is discussed in [2]. In [3], restoration of marsh land is
discussed. This marsh land is near to the Perungudy
dumpyard. Researchers have used several models including
first-order decay model in [4], IPCC Waste model, and
LandGEM model [5] for estimating the CH4 generation rate.
While the other models do not support the estimation of CO2
generation from the waste, LandGEM model can be used to
estimate both CO2 and CH4. To foresee the quantum of
emission to be possibly reduced by adapting to newer
technologies to mitigate the
waste generated, an attempt has
been made to monitor
An Integrated Model of IoT and Cloud for
Detecting Green House Gas Emissions
Jeberson Retna Raj, T.Sasipraba