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IOT Based Weather Monitoring and Reporting System

Project
Anita M. Bhagat1, Ashwini G. Thakare1, Kajal A. Molke1, Neha S. Muneshwar1, Prof. V. Choudhary2
1BEStudent, 2Associate Professor
1,2Department of Electronics and Telecommunication,
1,2J.D. College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

How to cite this paper: Anita M. Bhagat ABSTRACT

| Ashwini G. Thakare | Kajal A. Molke | The IOT based Weather Monitoring and Reporting System project is used to get Live reporting of w
Neha S. Muneshwar | Prof. V. Choudhary
"IOT Based Weather Monitoring and
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INTRODUCTION Internet of Things (IOT):
Climatic change and environmental monitoring have It is the future technology of connecting the entire world
received much attention recently. Man wants to stay updated at one place. All the objects, things and sensors can be
about the latest weather conditions of any place like a connected to share the data obtained in various locations
college campus or any other particular building. Since the and process/analyses that data for coordinating the
world is changing so fast so there should be the weather applications like traffic signaling, mobile health
stations. Here in this paper we present a weather station that monitoring in medical applications and industrial safety
is very helpful for any places. This weather station is ensuring methods, etc. As per the estimation of
based on IOT (internet of things). It is equipped with technological experts, 50 billion objects will be connected
environmental sensors used for measurements at any in IOT by 2020. IOT offers wide range of connectivity of
particular place and report them in real time on cloud. To devices with various protocols and various properties of
accomplish this we used Arduino Uno and different applications for obtaining the complete machine to
environmental sensors like DHT11, soil moisture sensor and machine interaction.
rain drop sensor .The sensors constantly sense the weather
parameters and keeps on transmitting it to the online web LITERATURE REVIEW:
server over a wifi connection. The weather parameters are In today’s world many pollution monitoring systems are
uploaded on the cloud and then provides the live designed by different environmental parameters. Existing
reporting of weather information. This paper also focuses system model is presented IOT based Weather monitoring
on the IOT application in the new generation of and reporting system where you can collect, process,
environmental information and provides a new paradigm analyze, and present your measured data on web server.
for environmental monitoring in future. The system has Wireless sensor network management model consists of end
been development particularly in the view of building device, router, gateway node and management monitoring
smart city by giving the weather update of any particular center. End device is responsible for collecting wireless
place like a particular office or room. sensor network data, and sending them to parent node, then
data are sent to gateway node from parent node directly
or by router. After receiving the data from wireless sensor
network, gateway node extracts data after analyzing and

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packaging them into Ethernet format data, sends them to
the server. Less formally, any device that runs server
software

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could be considered a server as well. Servers are used to
the switch indicator will turn on. Brush off the water
manage network resources. The services or information
droplets, and where restored to the initial state, outputs high
provided through the Internet that are connected through
level. A rain sensor or rain switch is a switching device
LAN and made available for users via smart phones, web
activated by rainfall.
browser or other web browser devices to make the
system more intelligent, adaptable and efficient.
Temperature & Humidity Sensor:
This DHT11 Temperature and Humidity Sensor features
SYSTEM DESIGN:
digital signal output .It is integrated with a high-performance
8-bit microcontroller. Its technology ensures the high
reliability and excellent long-term stability. It has
excellent quality, fast response, anti-interference ability
and high performance. Each DHT11 sensors features
extremely accurate calibration of humidity calibration
chamber. The calibration coefficients stored in the OTP
program memory, internal sensors detect signals in the
process, we should call these calibration coefficients. The
single-wire serial interface system is integrated to become
quick and easy. Small size, low power, signal transmission
distance up to 20 meters, enabling a variety of applications
and even the most demanding ones. The product is 4-pin
single row pin package. Convenient connection, special
packages can be provided according to users need.
In IOT enabled weather monitoring system project, Arduino
Uno measures four weather parameters using four Soil Moisture Sensor:
respective sensors. These sensors are temperature sensor, Soil moisture sensors measure the contents in soil. Since the
humidity sensor, moisture sensor and rain level sensor. direct gravimetric measurement of free soil moisture
These four sensors are directly connected to Arduino Uno. requires removing, drying, and weighting of a sample, soil
Arduino Uno has inbuilt Analog to digital converter. Arduino moisture sensors measure the volumetric water content
calculates and displays these weather parameters on LCD indirectly by using some other property of the soil, such as
display. Then it sends these parameters to Internet using IOT electrical resistance, dielectric constant, or interaction
techniques. The process of sending data to the internet using with neutrons, as a proxy for the moisture content.
Wi-Fi is repeated after constant time intervals. Then the user
needs to visit a particular website to view this weather data. The relation between the measured property and soil
The project connects and stores the data on a web server. moisture must be calibrated and may vary depending on
Hence user gets Live reporting of weather conditions. environmental factors such as soil type, temperature, or
Internet connectivity or Internet connection with Wi-Fi is electric conductivity. Reflected microwave radiation is
compulsory in this IOT based weather monitoring reporting affected by the soil moisture and is used for remote
system project. sensing in hydrology and agriculture. Portable probe
instruments can be used by farmers or gardeners.
Arduino Uno:
Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board developed by WiFi Module:
Arduino. Which is an open-source electronics platform The Arduino Uno WiFi is an Arduino Uno with an integrated
mainly based on AVR microcontroller Atmega328. The WiFi module. The board is based on the ATmega328P
current version of Arduino Uno comes with USB interface, 6 with an ESP8266 WiFi Module integrated. The ESP8266
analog input pins, 14 I/O digital ports that are used to WiFi Module is a self contained SoC with integrated
connect with external electronic circuits. Out of 14 I/O ports, TCP/IP protocol stack that can give access to your WiFi
6 pins can be used for PWM output. It allows the designers to network (or the device can act as an access point). One
control and sense the external electronic devices in the useful feature of Uno WiFi is support for OTA (over-the-
real world. This board comes with all the features required air) programming, either for transfer of Arduino sketches
to run the controller and can be directly connected to the or WiFi firmware.
computer through USB cable that is used to transfer the
code to the controller using IDE software, mainly developed LCD Display:
to program Arduino. Programming languages like C and C++ A Liquid Crystal Display commonly abbreviated as LCD is
are used in IDE. Apart from USB, battery or AC to DC adopter basically a display unit built using Liquid Crystal technology.
can also be used to power the board. Arduino Uno are the When we build real life/real world electronics based
most official versions that come with Atmega328 8-bit projects, we need a medium/device to display output values
AVR Atmel microcontroller where RAM memory is 32KB. and messages. The most basic form of electronic display
available is 7 Segment displays – which has its own
Rain level sensor: limitations. The next best available option is Liquid Crystal
The rain sensor module is an easy tool for rain detection. Displays which comes in different size specifications. Out of
It can be used as a switch when raindrop falls through the all available LCD modules in market, the most commonly
raining board and also for measuring rainfall intensity. used one is 16×2 LCD Module which can display 32 ASCII
The analog output is used in detection of drops in the characters in 2 lines. To establish a good communication
amount of rainfall. Connected to 5V power supply, the LED between human world and machine world, display units play
will turn on when induction board has no rain drop, and an important role. And so they are an important part of
DO output is high. When dropping a little amount water, DO embedded systems. Display units - big or small, work on the
output is low, same basic principle. Besides complex display units like

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graphic displays and 3D display, one must know working
CONCLUSION:
with simple displays like 16x1 and 16x2 units. The 16x1
By keeping the weather station in the environment for
display unit will have 16 characters and are in one line.
monitoring enables self protection (i.e., smart environment)
The 16x2 LCD will have 32 characters in total 16in 1st line
to the environment. To implement this need to use the
and another 16 in 2nd line. There are two control pins, this
sensor devices in the environment for collecting the data and
gives the flexibility. The contrast bit and READ/WRITE are
analysis. By using sensor devices in the environment, we can
not often used so they can be shorted to ground. This puts
bring the environment into real life. Then the collected data
LCD in highest contrast and read mode. We just need to
and analysis results will be available to the user through the
control ENABLE and RS pins to send characters and data
Wi-Fi. The smart way to monitor environment an efficient,
accordingly.
low cost embedded system is presented in this paper. It also
sent the sensor parameters to the cloud. This data will be
ADVANTAGES:
helpful for future analysis and it can be easily shared to
 IOT weather mentoring system project using Arduino
other users also. This model can be expanded to monitor the
Uno is fully automated.
developing cities and industrial zones for pollution
 It does not require any human attention.
monitoring. To protect the public health from pollution, this
 We can get prior alert of weather conditions
model provides an efficient and low cost solution for
 The low cost and efforts are less in this system
continuous monitoring of environment.
 Accuracy is high.
 Self Protection
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