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Humidity And Temperature monitoring

Using Arduino With The IoT
D. Citharthan and T. Jonah Gilbert

U
sing the Internet of Things
(IoT) in homes and indus-
tries it is possible to control
any electrical or electronic equip-
ment. Moreover, you can get the
information from any sensor and
analyse it graphically or in any
user-defined format from anywhere
Power Supply
DHT-11 Arduino UNO
Sensor Microcontroller
Fig. 1: Block diagram of analysing humidity and temperature using Arduino with ESP8266
in the world. The IoT using Arduino
microcontroller (MCU) is easy and
fun for those who are new to the
field.
In this article, humidity and
temperature information from DHT-
11 sensor is analysed graphically on
ThingSpeak platform using Arduino
ESP8266
Wi-Fi Module
MCU and ESP8266 Wi-Fi module.
Block diagram of the whole setup is
shown in Fig. 1.
Circuit and working
Circuit diagram for monitoring
humidity and temperature is shown
in Fig. 2. It is built around Arduino
MCU, DHT11 sensor and ESP8266
Wi-Fi module.
The DHT11 sensor senses hu-
midity and temperature, and sends
the information to digital pin 5 of
Arduino MCU, as shown in Fig. 2.
From Arduino MCU, humidity and
temperature values are uploaded
to the Cloud at regular intervals
of time through ESP8266 Wi-Fi
module. From the Cloud, humidity
and temperature values can be seen
graphically on ThingSpeak platform
(http://thingspeak.com) from any-
where in the world.

Construction and testing

Board 1 ThingSpeak is an open source
TP1 data platform but you need to
TP0
POWER USB register to use it. After regis-
INPUT
tering, login to your account
IOREF
DRIVER AREF
IC3 and create a new channel with
GND
RST 13 DHT11 humidity as one field and tem-
TP2
ARDUINO

3.3V 12
1 8 5V 11
VCC DATA NC GND perature as another, as shown
UTXD GND 1 2 3 4
7
GND
GND
10
9
in Fig. 3. Once a new channel
2 CH_PD GPIO2
Vin 8 is created, it will generate two
IC2
ATMEGA328

3 GPIO0 6
RST API keys, namely, write API key
ESP8266
4
VCC URXD
5 7
6
and read API key. Replace the
DIGITAL

A0 5 line given below in the program

A1 4
ANALOG

A2 3
A3
A4
2
TX 1
Test Points
A5 RX 0
Test point Details
TP0 0V (GND)
TP1 5V
Fig. 2: Circuit diagram for analysing humidity and temperature using Arduino with ESP8266 TP2 3.3V

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Fig. 3: New channel on ThingSpeak platform
Fig. 4: Graphical view of humidity and temperature on ThingSpeak platform
Fig. 5: Channel Settings
with your write API key:
String apiKey = “ NTIM1RXET6YVUVWF “;
Next, substitute Host_Name
and Password with your Wi-Fi
name and Wi-Fi password in
the two lines given below in
the program (IoT.ino):
String Host_Name = “Jonah”;
Fig. 6: Author’s prototype String Password = “2569696”;         
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The source code of
this project is
included in this
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is also available for free
download at source.
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The program should be verified
with your Wi-Fi setup. It uses DHT
library. If DHT library is not pre-
sent in your Arduino folder, down-
load it from https://github.com/
adafruit/DHT-sensor-library. To
import DHT library in Arduino IDE,
select Sketch→Import library→Add
library→Select the library that you
have downloaded.
Compile the sketch/program
and upload it to Arduino MCU
through Arduino IDE. Ensure that
Wi-Fi modem and the Internet con-
nection in your PC/smartphone are
working properly.
Once sketch uploading is
done, it will upload humidity and
temperature values on ThingSpeak
platform and you will be able to
see it graphically in Private View
window, as shown in Fig. 4. If you
want to change channel or field
name, you can change it from
Channel Settings (Fig. 5). Author’s
prototype is shown in Fig. 6.
Other applications
Along with temperature and hu-
midity sensor, other sensors like
gas, voltage, current and energy
can be used based on the require-
ment. Moreover, it is also possible
to take further actions by control-
ling the actuators from the Inter-
net once the sensor values are
going above/below predetermined
values.
D. Citharthan (left) is assistant professor
at Christ The King Engineering College,
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
T. Jonah Gilbert
(right) is pursuing
B.E. from Christ The
King Engineering
College, Coimbatore,
Tamil Nadu
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