Design and Implementation of HAPS on Air Pollution Monitoring System

Abstract

Air pollution is an environmental issue that can not be ignored. The development of air pollution monitoring systems will be useful for controlling and measuring parameters associated with air pollution. Along with technological developments, the use of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is currently being considered for air pollution monitoring, as it can work automatically and has a much cheaper cost than conventional measuring stations. But WSN itself has several weakness that require supporting technology to cover the weakness of WSN. The solution is to integrate WSN with High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS).In this final project will be discussed the implementation of HAPS on air pollution monitoring system based on WSN. In this study HAPS will serve as the center of aggregation and data processing from the head cluster. In order for HAPS to serve as the aggregation and data processing center of the head cluster, Raspberry Pi 3 is used as the HAPS control center. In addition HAPS will also serve as an access point for the sensor nodes to communicate wirelessly with each other. In the access point HAPS used microstrip patch antenna design results that have a working frequency of 2.4 GHz, return loss of 11.35 dB and VSWR of 1.743. The designed HAPS access point has the farthest reach of 255 meters.