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IOT Compatible Wireless Smart Portable Mini Weather Analyzer

Damini H Patel1 , Monali Dave2

1PG Student, EC Department, Venus International College of Technology, Gandhinagar

2Assistant professor of EC Department, Venus International College of Technology, Gandhinagar
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Abstract- Measurement and Control of humidity & because of high cost constraints. When the more number of
temperature play an important role in the fields like stations are there, it would be called as high resolution,
agriculture science ,Engineering & Technology . It become which will result in higher accuracy of the weather
forecasting. It is possible only when there exists a weather
essential to monitor the load time weather condition of one
station with low budget and low maintenance charges [3].
place from another place . In this Paper we present the design In this proposed work we have developed and tested a
& development of arduino based IoT for measuring humidity completely automatic and wireless weather monitoring
temperature & CO2 . MQ 135 sensor used for measuring CO2 equipment which measures the parameters of the weather
in air. humidity ,temperature & CO2 measurements made in by low cost digital sensors. It communicates this data to a
real-time are shown graphically .This information is received computer system via Wi-Fi wireless link. It has a facility to
by specially designed application interface running on pc display the information in user friendly way, hosting it on
internet and also it can log the data continuously whenever
connected through Wi-Fi wireless link .The data generated
required.I have chosen my city Ahmedabad as test city to
will be in excel as well as in graphically form using LABVIEW deploy my design to capture these data and use it in aiding
software for analysis purpose. The Proposed system is also authority to curb pollution issue. Drawback of the current
capable of generating short time alerts based on weather pollution stations is that they were located in laboratories
parameters. It gives an on-line & real-time effects. The idea and at very distant places from each other. Moreover, being
behind this work is to monitor the weather facility & warn bulky in size they couldn’t be installed at junction places
AMC from environment effect. where there was a dire need of monitoring the air. Hence,
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation took up the
responsibility to install 10 Poll drones as a pilot project
Keywords: IOT, Wi-Fi, labview, arduino,ESP 8266,USB, across the city to determine the pollution at key junction
intelligence node, portable. points.They began setting up digital sensors around the
entire city area for measuring various weather parameters.
1. INTRODUCTION We have also attempted to make a mathematical model
which can generate the short time local alerts based on
current values of parameters. We have used LABVIEW
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a recent communication, in
software platform and arduino hardware platform to
which a network connects all things to the internet for
achieve this objective.
communicating through the sensing devices with suitable
protocols, and exchange data with each other by using
2. OBJECTIVES
wireless sensor networks [1]. Using an IoT the device is
connected to the internet and all the information is shared
An IoT based system will provide easy installion, costless &
with other objects without human intervention. The IoT is
maintance free for proposed system . The DHT sensor is
meant to measure real-world events and controlling the
used for measuring humidity & temperature. MQ 135
specific phenomena. IoT gives the information in all sectors
sensor used for measuring CO2 in air. humidity
of agriculture, healthcare, home appliances, etc. With the
,temperature & CO2 measurements made in real-time are
increase in the number and functionalities of sensors and
shown graphically .This information is received by
actuators, the IoT which interconnects a particular set of
specially designed application interface running on pc
things, is easily programmable, and more capable of
connected through Wi-Fi wireless link .The data generated
interacting with humans [2]. In India, weather forecasting
will be in excel as well as graphical form using LABVIEW
systems use one system per 32km area. It is a lower
software for analysis purpose.
resolution. A higher resolution is not so easy in India

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3. FORMAL DEFINITION 7. BLOCK DIAGRAM

After analizing the existing system and the following

activities that are important in generating an accurate
weather report with all the challenges taken into
consideration in present scenario, it is still need to have
accurate whether forecast system from authorized system
.In such area there is great importance of having such
device that are scalable,expandable and flexible to update.
We are doing a small effort but having great impact in such
direction. I have come up with an idea to design small
portable battery operated ,temperature node which is itself
having data storage, inbuilt USB , low cost and possible to
connect with Wi-Fi and IOT (Internet of Things). I am
planning to design a product to be put into market as my
project.

4. PROPOSED TECHNIQUE

My job is to design a small, portable device for collecting Fig 1. Block diagram
weather report of various parameters. Out of a set of many
parameters I have chosen humidity to begin with. I will be 8. PROPOSED EXPERIMENTAL SET UP
designing a device that just on plug-in into a laptop or PC
would start collecting data off the environment around and The remote weather station measures the weather data and
generate reports in Excel format for further analysis and wirelessly transmits the weather data to the main weather
decision making.The supporting software includes station for display and logging. arduino the microcontroller
LABVIEW and Excel for data capturing, collecting and used for this work, is the main controller on the remote
analyzing. The entire process from commencement to station which interfaces with the sensor. It handles data
conclusion will be designed by me leading me to ultimately acquisition and data transmission using the transmitter unit
develop a product to put into market for everyone to use .Data transfer using USB and Wi-Fi network. in such area
and contribute in serving our gratitude towards Mother where Wi-Fi unavailable then we get data using USB. Power
Nature. supply is given for the continue supply to the circuit and
also given long life battery
5.PROPOSED MATHODOLOGY OF EVALUATION
9. EXPECTED
The system is divided into fourmain parts, namely, the
sensor circuit, the data-logging circuit, Wi-Fi and the USB  Observation
interfacing circuit. USB interfacing circuit facilitates the data
transfer between the data logger and a PC. The block After completing all the set-up, from starting of the test to
diagram of the overall system is depicted in following block the end of the test all the sensors working and data
diagram. The device having compact size as for USB transmission will be observed. These sensors data reaches
connection having a future modification by data logger and to microcontroller which handles data acquisition and data
IOT compatible. transmission. This information is received by specially
designed application interface running on pc connected
6. PROPOSED TOOLS TO BE USED through Wi-Fi wireless link .The data generated will be in
excel as well as graphically format using LABVIEW software
Proposed system will need DHT-11,wifi module, Battery, for analysis purpose. The Proposed system is also capable
power supply,arduino nano and LABVIEW software. of generating short time alerts based on weather
parameters. It gives an on line & real-time effects. The idea
behind to this work is to monitor the weather facility &
warm AMC from environment effect.

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 Graphical User Interface Fig 8. As can be seen, temperature is seen to be varying

between 34.5 ◦C to 42.2◦C, humidity variation is between
A graphical panel of GUI made in LabVIEW is developed as 21.1 % to 30.2 % and CO2 concentration is varying between
shown in fig. The data is displayed in both graphical and nu- 1182 ppm to 1355 ppm.
meric form. Virtual Instrument Software Architecture
(VISA) API is used to interface sink node with LabVIEW.
VISA is a standard I/O API for instrumentation
programming. It is a standard for configuring, programming
& troubleshooting instrumentation systems comprising
GPIB, VXI, PXI, Serial, Ethernet, and/or USB interfaces. VISA
is adopted as it is interface independent

The monitored data is stored in sheet with current date and

time. In the front panel, user can configure the system
setup. The programming is developed in such a way that the
excel sheet stores the actual time of sensing instead of
delayed time, depending on time data entered in front panel
by user.

Fig 3.CO2 Results

Results shown in Fig 3. represents variation of CO2, in the

range of 1256 ppm to 1439 ppm, for different areas of the
Gandhinagar.

Fig 2.Graphical User Interface

Fig. 4.Temperature result
 PROPOSED IOT-SN DEPLOYMENT
After a few iterations, the proposed IoT WSN was tested for
To test the functionality of the proposed IoT enabled
the environmental conditions in the city of Gandhinagar,
monitoring system, the proposed IoT-SN was deployed
Ahmedabad, India during the same month. Data was
under varying conditions. Fig shows the deployment of the
monitored wirelessly through receiver connected to the PC
proposed system.The transmitter node is placed near an
and was recorded in an excel sheet through GUI made in
office building (where monitoring was easier) and receiver
LabVIEW .
node was kept at a distance of approx-imately 10 metres
from the transmitter node. Temperature, humidity and CO2
concentration is monitored. Related results are shown in

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Fig.5 Humidity result

10. CONCLUSION

After studying reserch paper it can be conclude that data

received on the Wi-Fi can be displayed on the pc with a GUI
using IoT.Data aquisition becomes easy with sensors and
wireless moduels using LABVIEW and PC.Interfacing the
digital sensors with arduino and testing of it for
transmitting and receiving the proper data of the sensor.
transmission and reception of all the wireless module will
be tested after interfacing .Connection of LABVIEW and
arduino using National Instrument.

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