Gas accidents have killed thousands of people and rendered several million homeless in Nigeria within the last decade. Majority of Nigerian citizens and residents use LPG gas stored in highly compressed cylinders for cooking at homes and for industrial usage. This is because the alternatives which are kerosene stoves and electric cookers are not effective because AGO (kerosene) is highly unavailable and electricity supply in the country that supposed to be used to power electric cookers is unreliable and epileptic. The high rate of home, industrial and road accidents associated with gas leakages calls for an urgent attention. In this work, we proposed a prototype of a Smart Gas Accident Detection and Prevention System (SGADPS) that could be embedded into the LPG cylinder regulator as a safety measure. This was achieved in five major modules: alarming, alerting, evacuation, displaying and shutting down when necessary. A high speed AVR Micro-controller (ATmega 168), MQ-6 LPG gas sensor and other components were used. C language and AT commands were used for the programming and via an Arduino IDE (Integrated Development Environment), the chip was loaded. The proposed system satisfied all the objectives for Gas accident detection and prevention tool.
SGADPS, Gas accident, Nigeria, LPG, AVR Micro-controller
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