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DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF IOT

BASED SMART LABORATORY
Mrs.M.V.S.Roja Ramani 1, K.Padmateja2, B.Prasanth3, A.Nageswara Rao4, S.Tanuja5
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
1 Assistant Professor, NSRIT
2,3,4,5 NSRIT

Abstract- Internet of things (IoT) provides a platform that

allows devices to be connected, sensed and controlled remotely
across a network infrastructure. This work aims to develop a
smart laboratory system based on IoT and mobile application
technologies to monitor the overall activities of the lab
including energy consumption and utilization of devices,
environmental parameters via sensors, thereby providing a
smart environment to with energy efficiency and comfort.

Keywords- NodeMCU IoT Sensors Adafruit IO

I. INTRODUCTION

The term internet of things was coined more than ten

years ago by industry researchers but has emerged into
mainstream public view only more recently. Some claim the II. BLOCK DIAGRAM
Internet of Things will completely transform how computer
networks used for the next 10 or 100 years, while others believe
IoT is simply hyper that. won’t much impact the daily lives of
most people. Internet of Things represents a general concept for
the ability of network devices to sense and collect the data from
the world around us, and then share that data across the Internet
where it can be processed and utilized for various interesting
purposes.

NodeMCU: is an open source IoT platform. It includes

firmware which runs on the ESP8266 Wi-Fi SOC from Express
if Systems and hardware which is based on the ESP-12E
module. The term “NodeMCU” by default refers to the
firmware rather than the development kits whether your
Arduino or Raspberry pi is linked to the internet over Wi-Fi,
Ethernet or this new ESP8266, blink will get you online and It provides a platform that allows devices to be
ready for the IoT. We can make difference in 1st and 2nd connected, sensed and controlled remotely across a network
version of NodeMCU Development board by their boards infrastructure by finding the temperature level in the lab, the
design and ESP modules on it. fans or ac’s will be ON. The temperature sensor detects the
temperature in the room by using thermocouple. The
• In 1st version of NodeMCU Dev Kit v0.9, CH341SER thermocouple varies voltage according to the temperature and
USB to Serial converter is used whereas in 2nd version produces the signal in the form of analog signal. The current
of NodeMCU Dev Kit v1.0, CP2102 USB to Serial sensor by using Hall Effect measures the total current consumed
converter is used. by the particular device. The Light dependant resistor measures
• 1st version uses ESP-12 and 2nd version uses ESP- the intensity of light in the room. The LDR device upon exposed
12E (Enhanced version). to light, its resistance decreases.

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III. SYSTEM DESIGN

COMPONENTS: The system consists of following

components

CURRENT SENSOR: The ACS712 Module uses the

famous ACS712 IC to measure current using the Hall Effect
principle. The module gets its name from the IC (ACS712) used
in the module, so for you final products use the IC directly
instead of the module. These ACS712 module can measure
current AC or DC current ranging from +5A to -5A, +20A to - Fig: Proposed type circuit
20A and +30A to -30A. You have to select the right range for
your project since you have to trade off accuracy for higher
range modules.

TEMPEATURE SENSOR: Thermistors are temperature

sensitive resistors. The principle behind the functioning of this
sensor is much like the one from the RTD, however thermistors
differ from RTDs in that the material used in a thermistor is Fig: Controlling feeds of Adafruit IO
generally a ceramic or polymer, while RTDs use pure metals
and, also unlike RTDs, the resistance of a thermistor decreases
with increasing temperature. The temperature response is
different as well; RTDs are useful over broader temperature
ranges, while thermistors typically achieve a higher precision
within a limited temperature range, usually −90 °C to 130 °C.
Thermocouples are based on the Seebeck effect: two dissimilar
metals bearing different temperatures, joint together at at least Fig: Graphical representation of data
two different points (a reference and a measuring point) will
produce electromotive force proportional to the temperature. V. APPLICATIONS
Different metal-pairs produce different outputs. Thermocouples
are not as accurate as thermistors or RTDs but can take readings • Industrial facilities
of very high temperatures ranges over 2000°C. They are used, • Manufacturing plants and warehouses
for instance, in High Temperature Probes attached to ROVs • Parking lots
when exploring hydrothermal vents. • Chemical plants
• Solar farms
LDR: A photo resistor or light dependent resistor is a • Military Field
component that is sensitive to light. This resistor works on the
principle of photo conductivity. when the light falls on its VI. CONCLUSION
surface, then the material conductivity reduces and also the
electrons in the valence band of the device are excited to the In this paper the access and surveillance using IoT
conduction band. These photons in the incident light must have based smart laboratory is implemented. The lab is successfully
energy greater than the band gap of the semiconductor material. controlled using mobile application through Wi-Fi modules and
This makes the electrons to jump from the valence band to sensors. We also successfully controlled the house hold devices
conduction.When light falls upon it then the resistance changes. with the help of internet of things by Adafruit IO. By this we
Values of the resistance of the LDR may change over many can reduce the man power.
orders of magnitude the value of the resistance falling as the
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