Detect harmful gases with machine learning and an Arduino Nano 33 BLE plus gas sensor.
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Created By: Roni Bandini
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Industries working with chemicals are always subject to leaks that could harm workers. A Machine Learning model could be trained to identify subtle relationships between multiple gas readings to spot custom leaks.
Arduino BLE 33 Sense
MiCS-4514 gas sensor
5V Cooler
Oled screen 128x32
Buzzer
3d printed parts
DC female connector
5v Power Supply
This project uses MiCS-4514 multi gas sensor. The sensor is able to detect the following gases:
Methane (CH4) (1000–25000) PPM
Ethanol (C2H5OH) (10-500) PPM
Hydrogen (H2) (1-1000) PPM
Ammonia (NH3) (1-500) PPM
Carbon Monoxide (CO) (1- 1000) PPM
Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) (0.1-10) PPM
The device will read the gas sensor x times for y seconds and then calculate min, max and average. Those values will be forwarded to the Machine Learning model for inference and then a score will be obtained for “harmful” gas 1 or “regular” gas 2.
Upload to the Arduino BLE 33 Sense the acquisition script. Place the sensor unit close to the gas or substance and open serial monitor. You should see there multi gas sensor values as CSV records. Uncheck timestamp, then copy and paste the serial monitor screen into a text file. Save that file as harmful.csv and add this header:
timestamp, CO2avg, C2H5OHavg, H2avg, NH3avg, CO2min, C2H5OHmin, H2min, NH3min, CO2max, C2H5OHmax, H2max, NH3max
Repeat the procedure for all the gases to be detected.
Go to Impulse Design, Create Impulse.
In Times Series Data, use 1500ms Windows Size and 0,6 frequency.
Processing block will be raw data with all axis checked. For classification use Keras with 2 output features: regular and harmful.
In Raw Data you can see all values for regular and harmful inside every windows size. Then you have to click Generate Features.
For NN Classifier use 60 training cycles, 0.0005 Learning Rate, Validation 20 and Autobalance dataset. Add an extra layer Dropout Rate 0.1 Click Start Training and check if you get good accuracy.
If you are ok with results you can go to Model Testing and check the performance with new data. If there are lots of readings with wrong classification you should check again data acquisition procedure.
Go to Deployment. Select Arduino Library and save the zip file. Now go to Arduino IDE, Sketch, Include Library, Add Zip library and select the downloaded zip file.
Connect the Arduino to the computer with the USB cable and Upload the code. Please note that it will take long minutes to upload.
If you want to change calibration time in minutes, use #define CALIBRATION_TIME 3
If your OLED screen has a different I2C address, use #define SCREEN_ADDRESS 0x3C
If you want to use another pin for the Buzzer # define pinBuzzer 2
If you want to use more readings for min, max and average int measuresNumber=4;
If you want to change the measure timeframe int measuresTimeFrame=1500; // 1.5 seconds
If you want to change the percentage to identify the gases float scoreLimit=0.8;
After displaying Bhopal and Edge Impulse logos, the unit will start the calibration phase. During this phase do not place any substance or gas under the sensor unit. It should read normal air conditions. As soon as this step is finished you can put the leaked substance under the sensor unit and it should be detected in 1.5 seconds. Why 1.5 seconds? During that period 4 readings will be made to obtain mix, max and average for all gases. That information will be forwarded to the model and a classification will be returned.
The prototype is able to detect normal air conditions, a regular gas and a harmful gas.
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