RESEARCH ARTICLE Adv. Sci. Lett. 20 (10-12), 2082–2086, 2014 2082 Adv. Sci. Lett. Vol. 20, No. 10-12, 2014 1936-6612/2011/4/400/008 doi:10.1166/asl.2014.5629 Copyright © 2014 American Scientific Publishers Advanced Science Letters All rights reserved Vol. 20 (10-12), 2082–2086, 2014 Printed in the United States of America Pollution Instrumentation Using GPS and Data Logger Based-on Propeller Ferry Wahyu Wibowo 1 1 Department of Informatics Engineering, STMIK AMIKOM Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Pollution issues are all of countries in the world common problems. A lot of countries have policies to regulate their countries and reduce the pollutions, because this issue is very important in human lives. This paper uses parallax’s propeller demo board as controller. The mechanism of this instrumentation is to detect pollutant of carbon monoxide (CO) using gas sensor module. The gas detection data converted by analog to digital converter (ADC) attached on the gas sensor module. Parallax’s propeller is multi-core processor, so each core can be used to manage real-time data without waiting sequential instructions. The works of each module can be done by one propeller. GPS module is used to get data of latitude, longitude, altitude, date and time. These data are important thing for tracing position of the instrumentation placement on the map, e.g. google map. The data of time and date are used to know carbon monoxide concentration each time and when it is taken. Not only using GPS, but this instrumentation also used secure data (SD) card as the storage data of GPS and carbon monoxide concentration. Keywords: Instrumentation, Pollution, Sensor. 1. INTRODUCTION It can’t be denied that the fresh air environmental quality is a part of health. The air is the great component and it is important to creatures and needs to be preserved and increased its quality to support optimally health. The increasing of industries and vehicles makes some problems effecting directly to the environments. One of cases emerged by that problem is air pollution. Air pollution is a serious issue due to the human health threat, not just that, but air quality also limits human welfare and ecosystems. It can cause breathing difficulty, skin irritations, birth defect, immuno-suppression and cancer 1 . This paper observed to make an instrumentation of air quality with some characteristics to detect air pollutant source in such environment. The pollutant which is observed is carbon monoxide (CO) detected by MQ-7 sensor, although the sensor can be replaced with another sensors with such reference values. The carbon monoxide (CO) is formed by carbon (C) and oxygen (O 2 ), together make a compound as imperfect combustion result while result of perfect burning will form carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). * Email Address: ferry.w@amikom.ac.id The carbon monoxide is a compound material with some characteristics i.e. odorless, tasteless, and it will form unseen gas at a normal air temperatures. The carbon monoxide also has toxic potention that is dangerous because it can bond in blood i.e. haemoglobin. Carbon monoxide also can cause slowing reflexes, so this must be aware. For reviewing and evaluating air quality, some novel methods to detect and measure pollutants have been researched and implemented. To capturing multi-pollutant (SO 2 , NO x , and Hg), it can use wet flue gas desulphurization scrubber fed by limestone and sodium chlorite. In this method, sodium chlorite additive shows significantly to capture NO x and Hg 2 . The features of measurement systems like flexibility, low-cost, and high speed digital data acquisition are always implemented to get easy and powerful designs. It will not possible to be done if application parameters due to the object and data analyzing is unclear. Internet is very important nowadays in human lives. The scientist and engineer try to integrate their needs in one aspect, in addition the progress of technology is faster day to day. Instrumentation remote will have high value when the monitoring is not done by human directly but it is done by machine or instrumentation. So the data can be reached and