Development of Environment Monitoring System Using Internet of Things

Environmental monitoring systems are often designed to establish the current status of an environment or to establish trends in environmental parameters. In this paper, we have proposed an idea to monitor environmental parameters in a cost-effective manner using Raspberry Pi (RPi)-based embedded system with IoT. Environmental parameters such as humidity, light intensity, methane gas, and temperature have been monitored using the commercial sensors by interfacing to Raspberry Pi (RPi)-based embedded system. The information sensed by sensors is digitized by analog to digital converter and stored in RPi board memory and then uploaded to ThingSpeak IoT platform. Further, local Web server developed on RPi platform using Python with the help of Python Flask library. The local server running on Wi-Fi associated with RPi can send data wirelessly till 200 m on mobile or any other Wi-Fi enabled device without using the internet.

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