Intelligent System for Remote Monitoring and Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Industrial Landfill Sites using Autonomous Sensing Nodes

Abstract

An industrial revolution due to increased human activities from the past few decades had a newlinemixed impact on human life, but a negative impact on the environment. Manmade activities newlinecontribute huge greenhouse gas emissions, causing an imbalance in nature. Among several newlinesources, landfilling is considered the primary source of greenhouse gas (GHG) and ODOR newlineemissions, perhaps affecting the environment and posing health risks on human lives newlineinhabited at the proximity of the landfill sites. Hence, effective monitoring of landfill gas newlineand ODOR emissions at each site of waste disposal must be a vital aspect of solid waste newlinemanagement strategies. newlineIn this research work, we proposed an intelligent sensing platform, for monitoring, and newlinealerting GHG, and ODOR emissions from the municipal solid waste (MSW) dumpsite newlineNetaji Road, Kuppam (A.P), situated close to residential zones. The platform integrates newlineautonomous sensing nodes for greenhouse gas, ODOR, and Smart Bins monitoring, IoT newlineCloud for secure storage and remote access, and a user-friendly mobile application for realtime newlineassessment, monitoring, and alerting the users. newlineFirstly, we proposed to build an autonomous sensing node, for monitoring greenhouse gas newlineemissions, from the MSW landfill site. The sensing nodes are solar-powered, portable, and newlinecustomized by incorporating industrial sensors such as carbon dioxide, methane, and newlinecarbon monoxide sensors for measuring landfill gas emissions at the MSW dumping site newlineand extended up to 500 meters from the site. Initially, conducted a health survey based on newlinesimple questionnaires to assess the health issues associated with gas exposure on residents newlineliving at the proximity of the MSW site, before conducting real-time field measurements newlineof landfill gas emissions. Preceding the health survey, conducted a real-time field newlinemeasurement on emission concentration of greenhouse gases at the MSW site out from newlineJune-November 2018 for 6 months. The field measurement started at the dumpsite, 100 m, newline300 m, and 500 m surrounding the dumpsite. The stud