International Journal of Information Technology (IJIT) – Volume 7 Issue 3, May - June 2021

RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS

Gas Leakage Notification System

T. Sravani [1] V. Ravi Kiran [2] Zaveria Khulsoom [3] T. Raj Kumar [4] T. Priyanka [5]
[1],[2],[3],[4]
Student,[5] Assistant Professor,
Department of CSE, Gudlavalleru Engineering College, Gudlavalleru, Andhra Pradesh,
India
ABSTRACT
Gas leakage in industrial area causes many health issues. Thus, to prevent such disasters happen, the atmosphere of a workplace
should be regularly monitored and controlled, in order to maintain the clean air environment. However, efforts in industrial air
quality control have been impeded by the lack of science-based approaches to identify and assess atmosphere air quality and level
of dangerous gas. Therefore, a monitoring system for gas leakage detection needs to be developed.The main purpose of this project
is to develop a Notification system that uses IOT services and notifies the gas leakage through SMS and Telegram. For the
development of this system, the MQ-2 Gas Sensor is used. This sensor is used for detecting a wide range of gases. It is also
sensitive to smoke and other harmful gases. Whenever it detects a gas crossing its threshold value, it switches on the buzzer. Apart
from that it also sends a message to your mobile phone, get notified by telegram bot on your channel. Here the Embedded C script
checks the MQ-2 Sensor value sent from NodeMCU device for every 10 sec and if gas concentration crosses threshold then it
switches on the BUZZER and put it on for 10 sec and during that time it requests the Twilio API to send message to your phone
number. The telegram bot you created sends a message to your channel.
Keywords: Microcontroller NodeMCU, Gas sensor MQ2, Buzzer, SMS, Telegram bot.

I. INTRODUCTION Literature Survey

“Gas leakage Notification system” is a project based on
wireless communication to enhance man and machine safety.
The use of LPG and natural gas in energy sector is rapidly
increasing day by day because of its properties like high
calorific value produce low smoke and less soot. These days
LPG is most widely used in automobiles, homes and
industries. The LPG or natural gas is flammable mixture of
hydrocarbon gases like propane, butane. Due to this,
properties of LPG or natural gas, the leakage of these gases is
a serious concern, as it results in to serious threats to living
beings. The world wide LPG Gas or natural gas is transported
by the cylinders and high pressurized gas pipe lines.
According to the study presented in, gas pipelines are safe but
they are prone for gas leakage due to mishandling, accidents
and ageing factor. To avoid these situations, a number of
efforts have been devoted to develop a reliable technique for
detecting gas leakage. A survey on these techniques has been
done in.
The Bhopal gas tragedy, which claimed lives of nearly 3,787
people is one of the major accidents due to gas leakage.
And another instance, the Vishakhapatnam, HPCL refinery
tragedy claimed lives of 30 people. A Gas Leak refers to the
leak of natural gas or other gaseous product from a pipeline or
other containment into any area where the gas should not be
present. Because a small leak may gradually
build up an explosive concentration of gas, leaks are very
dangerous. In addition to causing fire and explosion hazards,
leaks can kill vegetation, including large trees, and may
release powerful greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
Author’s: Ch. Manohar Raju and N. Sushma Rani.[2]
They proposed prototype that depicts a mini mobile robot
which is capable to detect gas leakage in hazardous places.
Whenever there is an occurrence of gas leakage in a particular
place the robot immediately read and sends the data to android
mobile through wireless communication like Bluetooth. They
develop an android application for android based smart
phones which can receive data from robot directly through
Bluetooth.
Author’s: Pal-Stefan Murvaya, IoanSileaa.[4]
They proposed a wide variety of leak detecting techniques
is available for gas pipelines. Some techniques have been
improved since their first proposal and some new ones were
designed as a result of advances in sensor manufacturing and
computing power. However, each detection method comes
with its advantages and disadvantages. Leak detection
techniques in each category share some advantages and
disadvantages. For example, all external techniques which
involve detection done from outside the pipeline by visual
observation or portable detectors are able to detect very small
leaks and the leak location, but the detection time is very long.
Author’s: Metta-Santiputri, Muhammad Tio.[3]
They propose a device to overcome the probable called the
Gas Leak Detection device based on IoT (Internet of Things).
It will monitor the content of flammable gas in the air, the
presence of humans, and the presence of fire in the house
continuously. With this device, it is expected that the number
of future accidents can be reduced and will not cause major
losses.
Author’s: S Shyamaladevi, V G Rajaramya, P Rajasekar
and P Sebastin Ashok [7]

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They told about their project ARM7 based automated SMS to the user’s mobile and by notifying them through the
high-performance system for LPG refill booking and leakage telegram application by using the telegram cha bot. Using this
detection and methodology to make their project. The paper is device, users will be able to prevent accidents that occur due to
designed based on modular approach which is easy to analyze harmful gas leaks so that accidents can be avoided.
as LPG cylinder booking unit, gas leakage monitoring unit at
the consumer end and server system unit at the distributor side.
MQ6 placed in the vicinity of the gas cylinder. In the advent of
leakage, the resistance of the sensor decreases increasing its
conductivity. Corresponding pulse is fed to microcontroller
and simultaneously switches on the buzzer and exhaust fan.

Organization
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. In section 2
the existing system is described. Proposed system is described
in section 3. Hardware components are explained in section 4.
Results in section 5. Future scope in section 6. Lastly, section
7 concludes the paper. Fig. 2 Circuit Diagram

The above figure gives the description about the hardware

II. EXISTING SYSTEM
Existing gas leakage detection system has fixed in the wall
of the home. It gives only alarm and LED output.
This system is based on the Arduino UNO R3 and MQ-6 gas
sensor. When the sensor detects gas in the atmosphere, it will
give digital output 1 and if gas in not detected the sensor will
give digital output 0. Arduino will receive the sensor output as
digital input. If the sensor output is high, then the buzzer will
start tuning along with the LCD that will show that “Gas
detected: Yes”. If the sensor output is low then buzzer will not
be tuning, and the LCD will show that “Gas detected: No”.
The buzzer most commonly consists of a number of switches
or sensors connected to control unit that determines which
button was pushed or whether a preset time has lapsed, and
usually illuminates a light on the appreciate button or control
panel, and sounds a warning in the form of a continuous or
intermittent buzzing or beeping sound.
connections and input and output devices connected to
NodeMCU. NodeMCU is a open source firmware for which
prototyping design boards are available. Both the prototyping
and firmware board designs are open-source.
is a microcontroller, which process the two types of data i.e.,
Analog and Digital by the use of two set of pins analog pins,
digital pins. Digital pins are also called as PWM – Pulse Width
Modulation. And these pins are used to process the digital data
i.e., High - Low (1 or 0).
NodeMCU can be powered by three ways:
1. Through data cable
2. 12v DC Power supply
3. Power supply through Battery
MQ-2 Gas Sensor has 4 pins
1. Vcc – 5v positive supply must be given to Vcc.
2. Digital out – to get digital output.
3. Analog out – outputs 0-5V analog voltage based on the
intensity of the gas.
4. Gnd – Gnd is used to connect the module to system ground.

Whenever a gas leakage occurs, the gas sensor senses the

threshold value of the gas and sends this information to the
Fig. 1 Block Diagram NodeMCU. If the gas values crosses the threshold value, the it
switches ON the BUZZER and Notification alert are sent to
III. PROPOSED SYSTEM the user via SMS and Telegram.

This paper aims to provide a solution to this problem by IV. HARDWARE COMPONENTS
building a device that utilizing sensors connected to Node
MCU. The device performs area monitoring continuously.
The gas sensor provides data to Node MCU, and then the
results are displayed as a warning to the user via a
smart-phone device. This system alerts the user by sending

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The sensor used in this project is MQ-2 gas sensor.Sensitive

NodeMCU material of MQ-2 gas sensor is SnO2, which with lower
conductivity in clean air. When the target combustible gas
exists, the sensor’s conductivity is more higher along with the
gas concentration rising.

Fig. 5MQ-2 Gas sensor

Fig. 3 NodeMCU

MQ-2 gas sensor has high sensitivity to LPG, Propane and

NodeMCU is an open-source Lua based firmware
Hydrogen, also could be used to Methane and other
and development board specially targeted for IoT based
combustible steam, it is with low cost and suitable for different
Applications. It includes firmware that runs on the ESP8266
applications.
Wi-Fi SoC from Express if Systems, and hardware which is
based on the ESP-12 module.
The NodeMCU ESP8266 development board comes with Character
the ESP-12E module containing ESP8266 chip having • Good sensitivity to Combustible gas in wide range.
Tensilica Xtensa 32-bit LX106 RISC microprocessor. This • High sensitivity to LPG, Propane and Hydrogen.
microprocessor supports RTOS and operates at 80MHz to 160
• Long life and low cost.
MHz adjustable clock frequency. NodeMCU has 128 KB
RAM and 4MB of Flash memory to store data and programs. • Simple drive circuit.
Its high processing power with in-built Wi-Fi / Bluetooth and Application
Deep Sleep Operating features make it ideal for IoT projects. • Domestic gas leakage detector.
NodeMCU can be powered using Micro USB jack and VIN • Industrial Combustible gas detector.
pin (External Supply Pin). It supports UART, SPI, and I2C
interface. • Portable gas detector.

Buzzer

Fig. 6 Buzzer

Fig. 4 NodeMCU Pinout

A buzzer is a small yet efficient component to add sound
features to our project/system. It is very small and compact
MQ-2 Gas Sensor 2-pin structure hence can be easily used on bread-board, Perf

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Board and even on PCBs which makes this a widely used
component in most electronic applications.
There are two types are buzzers that are commonly
available. The one shown here is a simple buzzer which when
powered will make a Continuous Beeeeeeppp.... sound, the
other type is called a readymade buzzer which will look
bulkier than this and will produce a Beep. Beep. Beep. Sound
due to the internal oscillating circuit present inside it. But, the
one shown here is most widely used because it can be
customised with help of other circuits to fit easily in our
application.
This buzzer can be used by simply powering it using a DC
power supply ranging from 4V to 9V. A simple 9V battery can
also be used, but it is recommended to use a regulated +5V or
+6V DC supply. The buzzer is normally associated with a
switching circuit to turn ON or turn OFF the buzzer at required
time and require interval.
and upload programs to Arduino compatible boards, but also,
with the help of third-party cores, other vendor development
boards.
V. RESULTS
During the implementation of the paper, the data was
continuously monitored by the gas sensor and all the data was
recorded and transferred to the microcontroller that is our
NodeMCU. This NodeMCU checks whether the recorded gas
value is above or below the threshold value.
If the recorded value crosses its threshold value, it switches
ON the buzzer and simultaneously the user will be alerted with
SMS by means of Twilio API and with Telegram by means of
telegram chat bot. The buzzer remains ON for 10 sec for
alerting the user.

Fig. 7 Buzzer pinout Fig. 8 Circuit

Pin Pin Description

Number Name
1 Positive Identified by (+) symbol or longer
terminal lead. Can be powered by
6V DC
2 Negative Identified by short terminal lead.
Typically connected to the ground of
the circuit.

Buzzer Features and Specifications

• Rated Voltage: 6V DC
• Operating Voltage: 4-8V DC
• Rated current: <30mA
• Sound Type: Continuous Beep
• Resonant Frequency: ~2300 Hz
• Small and neat sealed package
• Breadboard and Perf board friendly
Required Software
Arduino IDE
The Arduino Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
is a cross-platform application (for Windows, macOS, Linux) Fig. 9 SMS Alert
that is written in functions from C and C++. It is used to write

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Fig. 10 Telegram Alert
VI. FUTURE SCOPE
Overall, software and hardware parts of the system have
been developed and tested by introducing a small amount of
gas near gas sensor module. One of the notable future
functions of this system is to add a sub system where wastage
of a gas and uses of the gas can be monitored using this system.
This is an automatic gas detection and alerting system. In
future, this system will have a feature where it can notify the
emergency services if any accidents happen. A mobile app and
web-based app for real time monitoring also will be added. In
the user app for this system many smart features will also be
added. The overall features will make the system more safer
for the users. The system will be optimized for use in many
places like car, home, industries and many other places.
VII. CONCLUSION
This paper was aimed to develop and execute an advanced
gas leakage notification system where the user can be made
alert for gas leaks with SMS and telegram alerts. This paper
was successful in notifying the user with the gas leaks
occurred. This is a low-cost, low power, light-weight, portable,
safe, user-friendly, efficient, multi-featured and simple system
for detecting gas. Gas leakage detection will not only provide
us with significance in the health department but it will lead to
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raise our economy, because when gas leaksit not only
contaminates the atmosphere but also wastage of gases will
hurt our economy. The proposed system will cost very low
which is easily affordable even for poor people. In future,
more advanced features will be integrated with this system
which will provide users with more safety and relaxation. The
proliferation of handheld devices has led to developments in
the fields of smart gas sensors, which has considerably
widened their scope of application. The need for ensuring
safety in workplaces is expected to be the key driving force for
the market over the coming years.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Firstly, we are grateful to Gudlavalleru Engineering
College for giving us the opportunity to work on this
project. We are fortunate to have worked under the supervision
of our guide Mrs.T. Priyanka. Her guidance and ideas have
made this project work. We are thankful to Mrs.
D.Ragavamsi for being the in-charge for this project
and conducting reviews. We are also thankful to the HOD
of Computer Science and Engineering [CSE], Dr. M.
BabuRao for giving us access to all the resources
that went into building this project.
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