Development on Gas Leak Detection and

Location System Based on Wireless

Sensor Networks
With the continuing growth of the forces of social production
and the gradual awakening of the peoples consciousness of the importance of production safety,
a series of measures have been put forth to ensure workers safety. In high-risk industries such as
chemical, electricity and cement industries, small negligence may cause heavy economic losses
and serious environmental pollution. Therefore, many large companies, including Petro China
and Sinopec, are pumping large amounts of funds to upgrade existing equipment in order to
remove the hidden danger. However, there are still some shortcomings on real-time monitoring
and on data transmission and accurate location of a leakage point when an accident happens.
Mainly because: most of the current equipments are based on wired networks, it is backward in
technology and hard to be deployed; the technology of data acquisition in accidents is also
backward and so it is hard to locate the leakage point. These problems can be solved with the
help of WSN based on ZIGBEE (EM250 Single-Chip ZigBee which is of 2.4GHz, IEEE
802.15.4-compliant transceiver).. WSN has absolute superiority on data acquisition and
transmission.
The gas leak detection and location system consists of three
parts control center, coordinator and terminal nodes The supervising software on the control
center is based on Location Engine, it displays the location and the status messages of all the
monitoring sites The coordinator is also a gateway; it acquires all the information then transmits
to the control center to update the nodes status messages on the supervising software The
location of the leakage point can be known from the analysis of the information. In the past,
rescuers can not approach the accident spot in a long time because of the toxic gas, high
temperature or heavy fog. It is hard to rescue and deal with the problems in time. However, the
system provides reference for an effective rescue plan and can help to shorten salvage time.

BLOCK DESIGN PROPOSAL FOR THE SYSTEM

COORDINATOR

MAX
232

PC

ZIGBEE
COORDINATO
R
CENTRAL MONITORING UNIT

Node1 status
Node2 status

SMOKE
SENSOR

EMBEDDED
CONTROLLE
R

ZIGBEE
NODE1

NODE1

ZIG-BEE

EMBEDDED
CONTROLLE
R

NODE2

NODE2

SMOKE
SENSOR

HARDWARE REQUIREMENT FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE

FUNCTION MODULE

CONTROLLER (ARM LPC 2148/AT89S52).

ZIG BEE MODULES.
SMOKE SENSORS (2 Nos).
P.C.
POWER SUPPLY UNIT
MAX 232 IC.
MISCELLINOIUS COMPONENTS.

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE

FUNCTION MODULE
TOOL:

FOR AT89S52 BASED:

The KEIL U version IDE which Keil C51 Product is a complete software development
environment for the 8051 microcontroller family.
Us Flash+ Ver. 4.0.0 programmer for MCS51 microcontrollers developed by UC micro
systems.
FOR LPC 2148 BASED:
The KEIL MDK-ARM is a complete software development environment for ARM7 (LPC
2148) and ARM9 processor-based devices.
Flash the device using FLASH MAGIC, a free software utility sponsored by NXP.
LANGUAGE:

All editions provide a complete Embedded C/C++ development environment and KEIL
includes extensive middleware libraries.
PLATFORM:

WINDOWS XP.