Development of a smart liquified petroleum gas stove with real-time protection and notification using IoT

A Case Study of East Africa region’ Domestic users

Abstract

The world is advancing technologically in all sectors including the use gas as cooking energy. Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) is one of the gases used for cooking. The use of LPG by cooking protects the environment against deforestation and air pollution. But people are not very comfortable using it due to some issues related to the manual frame regulation that sometimes cause fire sparks, manual switch and LPG cylinder explosion that are causing many accidents in daily life. The previous related works reviewed have provided some solutions like alerting notifying and closing the Gas flow while there is a Gas leakage and auto fire extinguisher system against the fire caused by that Gas. But still, those solutions did not help users to maximize the benefits of using that gas. This project aims to develop a smart Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) stove powered by the integration of Internet of things (IoT) and Embedded Systems to auto-switch the stove, monitor the gas level, prevent the gas explosion and notify the user  the state of stove.