Módulo electrónico de seguridad para la emisión de una alarma y activación del sistema de ventilación como respuesta a la detección de niveles nocivos de CO en el habitáculo de un vehículo categoría M1

Abstract

Several investigations carried out in recent years have determined the level of damage that gases resulting from vehicle combustion can cause to human health, and for this reason, technologies and methods have begun to be implemented to reduce emissions. pollutants emitted by the combustion of fossil fuels. In a constant search to guarantee and improve the comfort of the passengers of a vehicle, as well as their safety, studies have focused on implementing advanced systems for the detection of levels of harmful gases inside the cabin, improving the traditional standards that incorporate the vehicles. Regarding the quality of the air inside the cabin, we seek to detect high levels of CO concentration, which can represent a risk and be harmful to human health both in the short and long term, in extreme cases it can lead to death. In Ecuador, there are several cases of death inside the cabin due to the presence of carbon monoxide (CO), either due to cracks in the exhaust system or damage to the air conditioning system. These deaths have been called of “Sweet Death” because carbon monoxide is an odorless gas and is not perceptible to the human eye. This situation has driven the development of a project that reads CO data in real time, to detect carbon monoxide at levels harmful to health and automatically execute various actions in the vehicle to avoid a tragedy. later. As an initial part of this solution, studies carried out on the levels that are considered harmful and the consequences in terms of people's exposure times to CO will be taken into account.