Unsupervised floating platform for environmental monitoring

Abstract

Environmental monitoring plays an important role in human life, so this project aims to provide a spatial-temporal resolution of data collected inland water storages and lakes through the development of a unique floating platform. Several challenges in monitoring environment especially the accessibility to the site and representativesness of data cause the quality of water and air become worse. Hence, an unsupervised floating platform was developed in order to monitor the environment. The system focused on doing a precision measurement of water quality and air quality. With the help of several sensors that act as an input that is Real-Time Clock, Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor, humidity and temperature sensor, pH sensor and carbon monoxide sensor. Through this sensor, the floating platform collects the data and save it for every 10 minutes to perform real-time data collection. The data are saved into SD card, which consists of time, date, longitude, latitude, carbon monoxide, water pH value, temperature, and humidity. The results obtained then used to evaluate the quality of the air and water of the lake.