This document proposes using drones equipped with air pollution sensors and meteorological instruments as a primary tool for measuring air pollution levels in cities. Drones could replace or complement traditional land-based sensors by flying overhead populations and transmitting real-time data on pollutant gases and weather parameters to monitoring stations. This would allow for faster, more efficient processing of pollution information to analyze trends and correlations. Potential applications also include using drones to prevent bioterrorism, remove pollutants from the air, and enable portable environmental sampling.

1. POLLUTION CONTROL
DRONE

2. POLLUTION CONTROL DRONE - INTRODUCTION
• The increasing air pollution of the big cities generated by industry, traffic and house heating represents
one of the larger challenges that human being must confront in the twenty-first century, because it
affects seriously to population´s health and life quality.
• In addition, it also affects to environment and buildings integrity and conservation.
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3. POLLUTION CONTROL DRONE - INTRODUCTION
• Air pollution is not homogeneous, geographically nor temporally.
• In consequence, it measurement and control require establishing a
computerized network, automated and timeless of air quality monitoring
throughout the entire city.
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4. POLLUTION CONTROL DRONE - PROPOSAL
In this project, we propose drone as a primary air pollution levels
measurement tool together or replacing the traditional land
sensors, thanks to its:
• Versatility
• Mobility
• Programmable remote control
• Automated take-off, rout and land
• Low cost
• Exceptional relation among results/investment
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5. POLLUTION CONTROL DRONE - PROPOSAL
• Drone has to fly overhead human’s population, as a result, this project requires a special commercial
drone with a huge prestige, very reliable and secure.
• It has to be really cheap and it represents this dynamic and emerging technology:
• With 6 or 8 engines to increase the load capacity and redundancy in the case of an engine failure
• With GPS
• Automated take-off
• Itinerary and land
• Back to home in case of failure or low battery level
• etc.
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6. POLLUTION CONTROL DRONE - PROPOSAL
• Project will focus on complementing the selected commercial drone with an air pollution
sensor, the electronic transmission of real-time information obtained and a number of
secondary sensors measuring various meteorological and climatological parameters.
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7. POLLUTION CONTROL DRONE - PROPOSAL
• The main sensor will perform continuous automatic quantification of the concentrations of the gaseous
pollutants in the air during your flight itinerary: monoxide, carbon dioxide, ozone, nitrogen oxides,
sulfur oxides and hydrocarbons, among other pollutants.
• The electronic transmission of real-time data collected to the monitoring station will allow simultaneous
processing and treatment of information, increasing the speed and efficiency of the entire process.
• The GPS system (owned by the drone or a specific one) will serve to know exact coordinates of each
measurement.
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8. POLLUTION CONTROL DRONE - PROPOSAL
• Finally, the secondary sensors determine the meteorological and climatological parameters that influence the
distribution of pollutant gases within the air
• Temperature,
• Wind speed and direction,
• Atmospheric pressure,
• Rainfall,
• Relative humidity,
• Solar radiation,
• etc.
and whose measurement is essential for the correct subsequent analysis of information and for obtaining
correlations and coherent conclusions.
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9. POLLUTION CONTROL DRONE - APPLICATIONS
• This project could also lead to other possible drone applications, as
• The prevention of bioterrorism with harmful or lethal gases for health,
• Bioremediation by converting or removing gaseous pollutants from the air during flight and
• Analysis of water and soil samples, becoming a portable laboratory.
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