Landfill fire prevention with the help of drones
This is a project done by me for the ATL competition which happened in August 2019. As the topic was to come up with an idea of using a drone to solve problems faced by society. So I came up with an idea to take current problems, so I decided to take about landfill fire accidents and find a solution using a drone. So, we bought a drone, and researched on landfill and came up with solutions for preventing landfill fires. So how fire accidents happen in landfills is basically when there is a lot of waste materials dumped, it decomposes more so the methane level present in the atmosphere increases. When the methane level goes over the limit, there may be fire accidents in the area which produces harmful and toxic air which can be harmful to the residents nearby and to the workers working there. It may also harm the environment. So, with our drone prototype, we decided to attach a methane sensor and a VMOS D1 mini board which is programmable and can collect data from the sensor itself and show us in form of graphs, analogue our digital waves. When the drone flies above the landfill, it detects the amount of methane present and sends us the data through its WiFi transmitter to our computer using the software. This is all about our prototype, we have more for our future enhancements. We will attach a thermal camera into the drone so it can detect the heat and add geofencing so it flies around a particular area and a charging dock so it can charge itself. This is all About our drone and we ensure this will be efficient and useful for saving the environment and people’s life. Thank you.