An IoT-Based Weather Monitoring System

Abstract

Monitoring and predicting of weather conditions is vital to planning several human activities and instrumental to numerous industrial activities. Therefore, in this project, an IoT based weather monitoring system is designed and implemented. The system was designed using an Arduino Nano and sensors for collecting the weather data. A GSM module was included in the design to transmit the sensor data to the cloud where it will be displayed on a dashboard. The entire system was designed to be solar powered using a 6V 3W solar panel. The system was designed to read and transmit weather data every 20 minutes. The entire system was implemented using the C++ language and Arduino IDE. The cloud service used for designing the dashboard is the Thingspeak cloud service. The design and implementation of this project provides an affordable means of automated monitoring of the weather conditions of any location and easy visualization and real-time access to the weather data via the internet from any location