IoT Based LPG Cylinder

monitoring System

Presented By:
Lokesh Chandak (B505) Aditya Kolhe (B515) Abhijit Boban (B504)

Project Supervisor:
Prof. Suresh Kurumbanshi

SVKM’s NMIMS, Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management &

Engineering,
 Outline
 Introduction
 Literature Survey
 Challenges
 Objective
 Problem statement
 Flow Process Diagram
 Process involved
 Component Used
 Working
 Result
 Conclusion
 Future Scope
 Applications
 Project Summary
 Bibliography
 Introduction
• These days liquid petroleum gas (LPG) is widely used
in many fields, especially in household purposes.
• The leakage of LPG may lead to severe casualties. So
there is a risk of increased accidents, with rise in its
usage.
• So it's necessary to have a system which continuously
monitors the LPG cylinder.
• This project has an effective way of monitoring the gas
quantity in the container and also to detect any leakage
to notify the user by means of internet through IoT
module.
 Literature survey
Sr. Title Author’s Name Work
No.
1. Smart Gas Level Kumar Keshamoni; They explain the gas
Monitoring, Booking & Sabbani Hemanth. cylinder monitoring
Gas Leakage Detector system using IoT
over IoT

2. Arduino Based LPG gas R.Naresh Naik, P.Siva They make an automatic
Monitoring & Automatic Nagendra Reddy, booking system of gas
Cylinder booking with S.Nanda Kishore, cylinder when it come to
Alert System K.Tharun Kumar an end. Alarm system for
Reddy gas leakage.
3. LPG Monitoring and Shruthi Unnikrishnan, They Monitor the LPG
Leakage Detection System Mohammed Razil, cylinder with the leakage
Joshua Benny, Shelvin and alarm system.
Varghese and C.V. Hari
Sr. Title Author’s Name Work
No.
4. Virtual Instruments Oliver L. Wang and Practical application has
used for LPG H. Chen demonstrated that the virtual
Pipeline Network instrument-based structure is very
Monitoring effective and the obtained
monitoring system is highly flexible.
5. A Security alert S.RAJITHA, The aim of this project is to monitor
system using GSM T.SWAPNA for liquid petroleum gas (LPG)
for Gas Leakage. leakage to avoid fire accidents
providing house safety feature where
security has been an important issue,
and to provide an alert by sending
SMS.
 Challenges

• Finding proper position to place the gas sensor

setup.
• Calibrating the load cell to display accurate
weight of gas left in cylinder.
 Objective

• Detection of leakage present in an LPG cylinder

• To help monitor the level of gas left in the
cylinder used in households, restaurants,
Industries, etc.
 Problem Statement

• Checking the weight of a cylinder on a periodic

basis to notify the user when the gas is low.

• To prevent mishaps caused due to gas leakage.

 Flow Process Diagram
Flow Process Diagram for Weight Monitoring System
Flow Process Diagram for Gas Detection system
 Process involved

1. Components selection:
List of components were selected according to our
needs and specifications.

2. Board layout:
A PCB board layout was created to arrange the
components.
3. Soldering:
Components were attached to the Prep board to
complete the circuit using soldering.

4. Testing:
All the components were tested to verify if they
were precisely connected or not.
 Components Used
• MQ-6 Gas Sensor
• Load Cell
• NodeMCU ESP8266 module
• Buzzer
• LCD Display
• Arduino UNO
• LED
 MQ-6 Gas Sensor
• Wide detecting scope.
• Stable and long life.
• Fast response and High sensitivity.

Item Parameter Min Typical Max Unit

Working
VCC 4.9 5 5.1 V
Voltage

Heating
PH 0.5 - 800 mW
consumption

Load
RL adjustable
resistance

Heater
RH - 31±10% - Ω
resistance

Sensing
Rs 10 - 60 kΩ
Resistance

Detecting
Scope 200 - 10000 ppm
Concentration
 Load Cell
> Compact form factor
> Usable in tension or compression
> Pre-conditioned analog output
> High signal-to-noise ratio
> Shielded miniaturized cables
> Medical-grade raw data output
> Ready-to-use form factor

SPECIFICATIONS :

> Range: up to ±110Kg

> Operation: Tension-Compression
> Type: Strain gage
> Total Error: ±0.25% (of full scale)
> Creep & Zero Return: ±0.1% (of load)
> Maximum Overload: 150% (of full scale)
> Temperature Effect: ±0.005% (of load/ºC)
> Input Impedance: 415±30 Ohm
> Output Impedance: 350±3 Ohm
> Insulation Resistance: >2000 MOhm
> Circuit: Wheatstone Bridge
 NodeMCU
• The ESP8266 Wi-Fi Module is a self contained SOC
with integrated TCP/IP protocol stack that can give
any microcontroller access to your Wi-Fi network.
• The ESP8266 is capable of either hosting an
application or offloading all Wi-Fi networking
functions from another application processor
• General-purpose input/output (GPIO) is a pin on an
IC (Integrated Circuit). It can be either input pin or
output pin, whose behaviour can be controlled at the
run time.
• NodeMCU Development kit provides access to these
GPIOs of ESP8266. The only thing to take care is that
NodeMCU Dev kit pins are numbered differently
than internal GPIO notations of ESP8266 as shown in
below figure and table. For example, the D0 pin on
the NodeMCU Dev kit is mapped to the internal
GPIO pin 16 of ESP8266.
 Arduino UNO
1. Arduino is an open-source prototyping
platform based on easy-to-use hardware
and software. Arduino boards are able to
read inputs - light on a sensor, a finger
on a button, or a Twitter message - and
turn it into an output - activating a motor,
turning on an LED, publishing
something online.
2. You can tell your board what to do by
sending a set of instructions to the
microcontroller on the board. To do so
you use the Arduino programming
language (based onWiring), and the
Arduino Software (IDE), based
on Processing.
 Working
• The working of this project is classified in two
different modules.
• In module one the working of Weight
Monitoring System is explained.
• In other module the working of Gas leakage
detection system is explained.
 Weight Monitoring System
• The main components used in this system are
Load Cell, Arduino and LCD display.
• The load cell will measure the load placed on
it, and will generate the analog signal
according the change in the resistance of it.
• This signal will be sent to Arduino.
• The LCD will display the measured load.
 Gas Leakage Detection System
• The main components of this system are MQ-
6 gas sensor, Node-MCU ESP8266, LED’s and
Buzzer.
• Whenever there is a gas leakage it will be
detected by the sensor.
• The corresponding analog signal will be
generated and will be sent to ESP.
• The LED will glow according to the strength of
the signal received.
• The ESP will send the data to cloud.
• When the leakage will be detected the SMS
will be sent to customer.
Result
• The figure alongside
indicates the system
designed for weight
monitoring.
• We have placed some
load on it, and have
observed the readings.
• The figure alongside
shows the reading
displayed on the LCD
screen when the load is
kept on the system.
• The figure alongside
shows the Gas
detection system.
• When the gas is
detected by the sensor
the led will glow and
buzzer will also buzz.
• The data will be
uploaded to cloud and
similarly the SMS will be
sent to customer.
• The figure indicates the
data which is uploaded
to cloud.
• The cloud service is
ThingSpeak.
 Conclusion
• LPG is one of the ‘clean’ cooking fuel with
present consumer base of 17cr in the country and
present coverage is 60% of the households.
• At present, majority of the LPG monitoring kits
available in the market do not implement IoT.
• The LPG cylinder monitoring system integrated
with IoT has been designed after checking its
economic feasibility and by keeping in mind the
needs of the consumers of the Indian market.
 Future Scope
• Gas detection sensor mounted drones for aerial
inspection.
• An IoT device or mesh of devices that contains
the necessary sensors to detect hazards and alert
people to them, for ex. SmartCone.
 Applications

• It can be the part of smart home automation.

• It can be use in industries and hotels for
monitoring.
• Easily able to sink with Cooking Robot.
• Use to Identifying the leakages and take some
steps.
 Project summary
It explains about the most common problem experienced in our day- to-
day lives that is regarding Gas container going empty. Awareness is
generated about the reducing weight of the gas in the container, and to
place a gas order using IOT. The gas booking/order is being done with
the help IOT and that the continuous weight measurement is done using
a load cell which is interfaced with a Microcontroller (to compare with
an ideal value). When it comes it to security of the kit as well as gas
container we have an MQ-6(gas sensor), LM35(temperature sensor),
which will detect the surrounding environment for any chance of heat
generated or any temperature rise. When ever any change is subjected
in any of the sensors (load cell, LM35, MQ-6) a buzzer is triggered.
 Bibliography
1. Kumar Keshamoni, Sabbani Hemanth (2017) IEEE 7th International Advance Computing
Conference. Smart Gas Level Monitoring, Booking & Gas Leakage Detector Over Iot.
2. R.Naresh Naik, P.Siva Nagendra Reddy, S.Nanda Kishor, K.Tharun Kumar Reddy (2016)
IOSR Journal Of Electronics And Communication Engineering (IOSR-JECE). Arduino
Based LPG Gas Monitoring & Automatic Cylinder Booking With Alert System.
3. Ashish Shrivastava, Ratnesh Prabhakar, Rajeev Kumar And Rahul Verma (2013)
International Journal Of Technical Research And Applications. Gsm Based Gas
Leakagedetection System.
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Security Alert System Using Gsm For Gas Leakage.
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Measurement Monitoring System.
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Thank you