Development of an Autonomous Greenhouse Gas Monitoring System

This paper describes the designs of a first and second generation autonomous gas monitoring system and the successful field trial of the final system (2nd generation). Infrared sensing technology is used to detect and measure the greenhouse gases methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) at point sources. The ability to monitor real-time events is further enhanced through the implementation of both GSM and Bluetooth technologies to communicate these data in real-time. These systems are robust, reliable and a necessary tool where the monitoring of gas events in real-time are needed.

Authors:

• Breda M. Kiernan
• Cormac Fay
• Stephen Beirne
• Dermot Diamond

Keywords:

• Environmental monitoring
• infrared sensing
• autonomous system.

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