Personal Gas Leak Monitor

THE CHALLENGE: Rock-IT Space Fashion and Design

Space Station

Out-of-this-world fashion with function: clothing or accessories for earth or space wear!

Every space traveler – even the robotic ones – should feel? their very best during the journey, infused with the very best data and technology available. Earthlings can follow suit. Design a space data-tech-fashion wearable in the form of clothing or accessories that will collect or distribute data and technology in the following categories:

Design for Interconnectivity (staying more connected to team, community, and tools)

enhance the work/life experience of humans and/or capabilities of robots

Design for Health (biometrics, physical and emotional health, and/or environmental alerts)

maintain or improve the health and well-being of the human
provide early warning for unhealthy environmental factors (air quality, radiation, outgassing, temperature)

Design for Entertainment (sights, sounds, music, activity)

enhance the human experience whether during work or play

Explanation

Carbon dioxide is a particularly challenging gas to deal with in Space. Humans produce CO2

through the natural breathing process, but too much CO2 in the air can cause headaches,

dizziness, increased blood pressure and much more severe symptoms. The Gasleak Monitor

demonstrates a new capability of continuous monitoring of the astronauts' immediate

surroundings. The astronauts attach specially designed CO2 sensors to their clothing’s and

wear them continuously for days to weeks. The sensors will wireless and send CO2 data to the

astronauts' and send alarm to connected android phone via Bluetooth communication. In this

project we used Arduino UNO board by which the data from sensor will parse into Android

phone.

Resources Used

Arduino UNO board, Bluetooth Module, Android Smartphone, Android Apps, Eclipse IDE and JDK, 5v Power supply,Gas Sensor, Arduino compiler,USB hub.