Iot-based environmental condition monitoring system
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Date
2018-06
Authors
Heng, Qiao Hui
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Abstract
Undesirable environmental factors have potential to bring low performance to
certain companies or industries. Besides, it even brings hazards which may cause fatal
injuries. With a reliable environmental monitoring system, it can warn the users
immediately by providing sound alert if the environment is under unsafe status. On the
other hand, different users may require different environmental parameters to be
monitored. Therefore, a universal system should be considered to cater for a wide range
of users. In the project, an environmental monitoring system called IoT-Based
Environmental Monitoring System (IoTEMS) was built. IoTEMS is an embedded system
that can be universally used to monitor 11 environmental parameters, which are
temperature, humidity, light intensity, dust level, air pressure, liquified petroleum gas
(LPG) concentration, carbon monoxide (CO) concentration, smoke concentration, flame
level, sound intensity, and water level through a website. The system was programmed to
obtain analogue data from the sensors and then the data will be stored to a database. For
user interface (UI) purpose, a website-based system was developed that to allow the users
to monitor the sensor data according the type of environmental parameters through the
website. The website was designed that for each of the selected parameters, the value, the
status, and the time of data acquisition can be observed. Several experiments were carried
out to verify the functionality of all sensors. IoTEMS provides various environmental
sensors that the system is not only restricted in one environment but can be applied in
other environmental condition such asindoor area, outdoor area or even certain industries.
IoTEMS can also enhance the effectiveness of the production in certain companies or
industries by providing alarm hazardous conditions.