BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Course No. : EEE 310 Level/Term: 3/1
Course Title: Communication Laboratory Section: C2

PROJECT REPORT
Project Title: LIVE TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY MONITORING
OVER INTERNET.

SUBMITTED TO:
Tashfiq Ahmed Ramit Dutta
Lecturer,EEE,BUET Lecturer,EEE,BUET

SUBMITTED BY:

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Report Overview

Topics……………… ………………………………………………….Page no
[1] Abstract 03
[2] Introduction 03
[3] Components 04
[4] Setup and Connection 05
[5] Flow Diagram 08
[6] Algorithm 09
[7] Thingspeak Output 10
[8] LCD Output 13
[9] Limitations 13
[10]Future Scope 13
[11]Conclusions 14
[12]Reference 14
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ABSTRACT

As the verge of Internet of Things (IoT) is emerging and is basically for remote
monitoring and visualization of the surrounding parameters with the use of sensors
for wireless sensing of real time data and transferring them into the desired form and
helping to forward the sensed data across the network cloud via Wi-Fi server. Here,
the project deals with the application of data transferred to Thingspeak which is a
open API service that act as a host for the variety of sensors to monitor the sensed
data at cloud level and using a channel ID and API key assigned is able to track
data at particular intervals. This project uses an Arduino UNO board, ESP8266 Wi-
Fi Module that helps to process and transfer the sensed data form the DHT11 sensor
to the Thingspeak Cloud.

INTRODUCTION

In this project which is based on IoT the relative humidity and temperature were
monitored. Using these data dew point will be updated as time goes by.
❖ Serial Communication :
Serial communication is a communication technique used in telecommunications
wherein data transfer occurs by transmitting data one bit at a time in a sequential
order over a computer bus or a communication channel.

❖ Thingspeak:
ThingSpeak is an IoT analytics platform service that allows you to aggregate,
visualize, and analyze live data streams in the cloud.

❖ ESP8266:
ESP8266 Arduino compatible module has a Micro Controller Unit which gives the
possibility to control I/O digital pins via simple code like programming language.
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❖ DHT11:
DHT11 sensor consists of a capacitive humidity sensing element and a thermistor
for sensing temperature.

❖ LCD:
A liquid-crystal display is a flat-panel display or other electronically modulated
optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals combined
with polarizers.

❖ Arduino Uno Board :

The Arduino Uno is an open-source microcontroller board based on the microchip

ATmega328P microcontroller and developed by Arduino.cc . The board is
equipped with sets of digital and analog input/output (I/O) pins that may be
interfaced to various boards and other circuits.

COMPONENTS

✓ Breadboard
✓ Arduino Uno
✓ Battery
✓ Jumper wires
✓ ESP8266
✓ Liquid Crystal Display(LCD)
✓ DHT11 sensor
✓ 100 ohm resistance
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SETUP And CONNECTIONS

Fig no:01(Overview of connection)

Overview of setup and connection:

• Data Communication between Arduino, DHT11 Sensor Module,

ESP8266 WIFI module and LCD.
• Displaying temperature and humidity on the LCD display.
• Sending data to ThingSpeak server for live monitoring.
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Elaborate step by step connection:

Fig no:02(Arduino Uno to DHT11 Sensor Connection)

Fig no:03(Arduino Uno to ESP8266 Connection)

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Fig no:04(Arduino Uno to LCD Connection)

Fig no:05(Overall Connection)

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FLOW DIAGRAM
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Fig no:06(Flow Chart for workflow)

ALGORITHM
Step1:Iteration start(n=0)
Step 2: Defining initial value for DHT sensor.
Step 3: Sensor data transmission through Arduino Uno digital pin.
Step 4: ESP 8266 connection with Arduino Uno through RX,TX pin
Step 5 :Transmitting data via two paths
Step 6: Path no 01:Wi-Fi connection and uploading data to Thingspeak via API
key for graphical plot. Dew point determination.
Path no 02: Display in LCD.
Step 7: n=n+1
Step 8: Go to step 1
Step 9: Enough data taken?
Step 10: Yes? -> Go to step 11
No?->Continue from step 8.
Step 11: End.
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THINGSPEAK OUTPUT
Temperature Plots:

Fig no:07(Temperature vs Time)

Fig no:08(Temperature meter)

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Relative Humidity Plots:

Fig no:09(Relative Humidity(%)vs Time)

Fig no:10(Relative Humidity meter)

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Dew point plots:

Fig no:11(Dew point vs Time)

Fig no:12(Dew point meter)

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LCD OUTPUT

Fig no:13(LCD Output)

LIMITATIONS
▪ Inadequate Data pins. So, for broad application system has to be modified

FUTURE SCOPE
▪ Further implementation such as weather station prediction
▪ Using different sensors instead of DHT11 with the other purpose of
other types implementation.
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CONCLUSION

From the total discussion, it can be seen that the basic mechanism behind this
project was based upon serial communication and IoT analytics .Basically, this
project not only dealt with data communication but also application of the
observed data.

REFERENCE

[1] Anwar H, Santoso H, Khameswara T D and Priantoro A U 2017 Monitor-PoP

— ISP's PoP room temperature and humidity web based monitoring using
microcontroller 2017 IEEE 8th Control and System Graduate Research
Colloquium (ICSGRC) (IEEE) 212-6
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