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Vol. 5, Special Issue 13, March 2018

IoT Based Weather Monitoring System

R Suresh Babu, T Palaniappan,K Anushya, M Kowsalya , M Krishnadevi

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Kamaraj College of Engineering

and Technology, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract- The system proposed in this main aim of the this paper is to design and
paper is an advanced solution for implement an efficient monitoring system
monitoring the weather conditions at a through which the required parameters are
monitored remotely using internet and the
particular place and make the information
data gathered from the sensors are stored in
visible anywhere in the world. The the cloud and to project the estimated trend
technology behind this is Internet of on the web browser.The values from the
Things (IoT), which is an advanced and cloud is updated at each and every
efficient solution for connecting the things moment.The crops are cultivated and the
to the internet and to connect the entire soil are tested mainly the moisture is
world of things in a network. The data measured.Thus we can cultivate different
crops at a particular area.Vertical farming is
updated from the implemented system can
nothing but it is a vertically stacked farming
be accessible in the internet from and it is a upcoming methodology for
anywhere in the world.In agriculture zone farming.
it will be very difficult to check and monitor
the weather parameter through wires and
analog devices during some weather
II. RELATED WORKS
hazards. To overcome this problem here
the wireless sensors are used to check and Due to weather disasters and uneven
monitor the weather parameters. The other environmental changes,life style of humans
idea is Vertical farming system.It is will be changed. It is very difficult to
implemented for cultivating different crops monitor different weather parameters
in small area. through wired system architect and analog
devices in an agriculture zone during certain
Index Terms- IoT,vertical Farming,Esp8266
hazardous envy and critical situations. It is
Existing technology mainly focus on very important to measure the weather
controlling and monitoring of different parameters in agriculture zone for the
activities. These are increasingly emerging farmers which help to plan their farms
to reach the human needs. An efficient according to the weather conditions. To
environmental monitoring system is required
overcome the problem of monitoring the
to monitor and assess the conditions in case
of exceeding the prescribed level of weather parameters using wired devices, the
parameters.Sensors are placed at different wireless sensors network devices may
locations to collect the data to predict the take certain steps and issues even in worst
behavior of a particular area of interest. The case for monitoring the weather parameters.

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It is the heart of the device. It provides the

platform for IOT. Its a wifi module having
III. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE esp8266 firmware within. All the other
sensors are connected to this micro-
The implemented system consists of controller. They send the measured values to
a main block NodeMCU and sensors it and it uploads all the values to the cloud
are connected to the nodemcu.Nodemcu where the values are analyzed. The
collects the information from different developer of this board is ESP8266
sensor , then its send a data to thingspeak. Opensource Community. It has an
operatingsystem called XTOS. The CPU is
ESP8266(LX106). It has an in-built memory
of 128 KBytes and a storage capacity of
4MBytes.

Fig a
Block Diagram of IoT Based Weather
Monitoring system.
2. DHT11 Sensor
IV. I MPLEMENTATION SETUP

A. Components required: Hardware It senses the temperature of the surrounding.

1)NodeMCU Its a 4-pin device. We should connect a 10k
2)DHT11 Sensor resistor between pin 1 and pin 2. Pin 1 is
3)Soil Moisture connected to the 3.3V. Pin 4 is connected to
4)Rain gauge GND. Pin 2 is the output pin which gives
input to the nodemcu pin D4. Pin 3 is left
B. Components required: Software
empty.It consits of a humidity sensing
1) Arduino IDE[11]
component,a NTC temperature sensor and a
IC on a backside of the sensor.
1. Node MCU

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voltage on the analog pin. For example a

Fig b completely dry board will cause the module
to output five volts. The analog output of the
3.Soi module is connected to the A0 pin of the
l nod
mois emc
ture u.
sens
or

It has two probes and it allow current to pass Fig

through soil when it gets the resistance value d
to measure the moisure content in the soil.If
the water is more it conductes higher 5.
electricity and lesser resistance and the Thingspeak
moistue level is higher
According to its developers, “Thing Speak”
is an open source Internet of Things (IOT)
application and API to store and retrieve
data from things using the HTTP protocol
over the Internet or via a Local Area
Network.Thing Speak enables the creation
of sensor logging applications, location
tracking applications, and a social network
of things with status updates".Thing Speak
has integrated support from the
numericalcomputing software MATLAB
Fig c from MathWorks allowing Thing Speak
4. Rain Guage module users to analyze and visualize uploaded data
using Matlab without requiring the purchase
It is used for the detection of rain. It can also of a Matlab license from Mathworks.
be used for measuring the intensity of the
rain. It has both digital output as well as V. SIMULATION RESULT
analog output. This module measures the After sensing the data from different sensor
moisture through analog output pin and devices, which are placed in particular area
when the threshold of moisture exceeds too of interest. The sensed data will be
much it provides a digital output. The more automatically sent to the web server, when a
water or the lower resistance means lower proper connection is established with sever
output voltage. Where as, the less water device.
means higher resistance,i.e, high output

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into real life i.e. it can interact with other

objects through the network. Then the
collected data and analysis results will be
available to the end user through the Wi-Fi.
The smart way to monitor environment and
an efficient, low cost embedded system is
presented with different models in this
paper.It can also be modified such that
whenever a message or email is sent from a
particular phone number or email id to the
server, all the environmental parameters of
the device along with its location will be
delivered to that phone or email id. This
device can also be used to monitor a
particular room or place whose
environmental parameters are required to be
monitored continuously.The vertical farming
helps to cultivate more crops on the basis of
stack formation and it occupy less acres for
such impementation.It uses hydroponics or
aquaponics process for growing the crops
Fig e under any conditions.

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