Embedded Electronic Nose for VOC Mixture Analysis

This paper details the work done towards a low cost, small size, portable embedded electronic nose (e‐nose) and its application for analysis of different VOC mixtures. The sensor array is composed of commercially available metal oxide semiconductor sensors by Figaro. The embedded E‐nose consists of an ADuC831 and has an RS 232 interface for Desktop PC for higher level data collection and NN training. The ESP tool with database facility and multilayer perceptron neural network (MLP NN) is employed to interface the embedded hardware and to process the electronic nose signals before being classified. The use of embedded e‐nose for the quantification of VOCs in mixtures is investigated.