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CDOcapture – Smart CO₂ Monitoring and Tracking System
Supervisor: Dr. Ofer Melamed
General Description
Carbon dioxide (CO₂) is one of the most important gases affecting our environment, climate, industry, and everyday life. The ability to accurately measure, monitor, analyze, and track CO₂ is becoming increasingly important as industries and governments worldwide work to reduce emissions and develop technologies for carbon capture and utilization.
The CDOcapture project aims to develop a smart CO₂ monitoring platform capable of continuously collecting CO₂-related measurements, analyzing the data, storing it, and presenting meaningful information through a dedicated application.
The heart of the project is the development of an application that tracks CO₂ over time, allowing users to follow the performance of a CO₂ capture system, visualize how CO₂ levels change throughout the process, identify changes in performance, compare different operating conditions, and evaluate the overall efficiency of the system.
The system will combine physical sensors, an embedded controller, wireless communication, data acquisition, algorithms, databases, visualization, and application development.
The technology behind the project has received funding from the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA), giving students the opportunity to contribute to a real R&D project with potential for future industrial implementation.
The project combines several major areas of Computer Science and engineering, including Internet of Things (IoT), embedded programming, application development, data acquisition, communication protocols, algorithms, databases, visualization, and data analysis.
The importance of this project goes beyond simply measuring CO₂. The challenge is to transform continuous streams of sensor measurements into clear, useful, and actionable information that can be used to understand and improve the performance of a CO₂ capture process.
The emphasis of the project is therefore on creating a smart software-controlled monitoring system capable of collecting CO₂ measurements, processing the data, identifying meaningful patterns, following system performance, and presenting the information through an intuitive application.
Project Scope
The project provides students with the opportunity to develop a complete technological system addressing a major real-world environmental and industrial challenge.
The emphasis of the project is on Computer Science, IoT, application development, algorithms, data analysis, databases, visualization, and system integration.
Students will be challenged to develop a complete information pipeline:
CO₂ → Sensors → Embedded System → Communication → Algorithms → Database → Application → Meaningful Information
The ultimate vision is to demonstrate how Computer Science and IoT technologies can transform CO₂ monitoring into an intelligent, connected, and data-driven system that can follow and evaluate the performance of a CO₂ capture process.
Purpose and main objectives of the project
The purpose of the project is to design and develop a complete smart CO₂ monitoring, tracking, performance-analysis, and visualization system.
The system should include physical sensors, an embedded controller, communication with an application or cloud service, data acquisition, a database, data-processing algorithms, and a user-friendly application.
The main objectives are:
•	Develop an IoT-based measurement system for monitoring CO₂.
•	Integrate CO₂ and additional relevant sensors into a physical measurement platform.
•	Possible parameters may include:
•	CO₂ concentration
•	Temperature
•	Pressure
•	Humidity
•	Gas flow
•	Time and measurement history
•	Send measurements wirelessly using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or another suitable communication protocol.
•	Develop a dedicated CDOcapture application for tracking CO₂.
•	Store historical CO₂ measurements in a database.
•	Display historical information using graphs and dashboards.
•	Develop alerts for predefined conditions or unusual measurements.
•	Build a complete demonstrator integrating hardware, embedded software, communication, algorithms, database, and application.
•	Ensure project continuity by identifying, documenting, and proposing future improvements, new features, algorithms, and technological directions that can be implemented in the next development stages of CDOcapture.
Student Requirements
Students participating in this project are expected to work as a development team and divide responsibilities between areas such as embedded software, sensor integration, communication, algorithms, backend development, application development, database management, visualization, testing, and system integration.
Embedded Development
•	Arduino IDE
•	ESP32 or another suitable embedded controller
•	CO₂ sensor interfacing
•	Additional environmental sensors
•	Real-time data acquisition
IoT Communication
Possible technologies include:
•	Wi-Fi
•	Bluetooth / BLE
•	MQTT
•	HTTP / REST API
•	WebSockets
Application Development
A major component of the project will be the development of a CO₂ tracking and performance-monitoring application.
The students may develop a:
•	Web application
•	Mobile application
•	Desktop application
The application should provide a simple and intuitive interface that allows users to understand what is happening to the CO₂ now, what happened in the past, how the capture system is performing, and how its performance changes over time.
Possible technologies include:
•	Python
•	Other suitable application-development frameworks
Algorithms and Data Analysis
The project should include algorithms for processing and interpreting CO₂ measurements and system performance.
Possible examples include:
•	Real-time CO₂ data processing
•	Signal filtering
•	Trend detection
•	Detection of unusual measurements
•	Alerts and threshold detection
•	Visualization and analysis of historical data
Students may use:
•	Python
•	Other suitable development and data-analysis tools
Deliverables: Final Submission
The final product must be submitted as one .zip file containing all of the following:
1. The final system should include a complete working demonstrator of the CDOcapture CO₂ monitoring and tracking system.
2. Code Files – in GitHub
3. Presentation
4. Updated Development Document (PRS, SRS)
5. Link to a YouTube Video
6. Project Poster
Additional Notes
For any questions, students may also contact: Ofer.melamed@gmail.com
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