Design and implementation of a reliable gas leak detection system for domestic environments

Gas leaks represent the cause of many accidents both in the industry sector and domestic environments. Due to the deployment of complex supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, accident rates have decreased in the industry sector but they are still high in domestic environments. Here, we propose a gas leak detection system based on redundant sensing units and investigate ways of integrating it in the distributor´s SCADA system. We also look at some off-the-shelf gas leak detection devices for home usage and present results of the study made on them. The performance of each studied device is analyzed in comparison to our solution. Results of this analysis show that the proposed implementation is suitable for a more reliable detection of gas leaks.