International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, and Optimization Techniques (ICEEOT) - 2016
Design and Development of CC3200-based CloudIoT
for Measuring Humidity and Temperature
Divyavani Palle, Aruna Kommu
VLSI and Embedded Systems Laboratory
Department of Physics, Sri Krishnadevaraya University
Ananthapuramu-515003, A.P, India
vani.divya63@gmail.com, aruna.kommu9@gmail.com
Abstract— Measurement and control of humidity and
temperature play an important role in different fields like
Agriculture, Science, Engineering and Technology. Also, it
becomes essential to monitor the real-time weather condition of
one place from another place. In this paper, we present the
design and development of CC3200-based Cloud IoT for
measuring humidity and temperature. CC3200 is the first
SimpleLink WiFi internet-on-chip LaunchPad developed by
Texas instruments, USA in 2014. The HRT393 sensor is used for
measuring humidity and temperature. Measured parameters are
sent to the Cloud servers of AT&TM2X Cloud technology
(HTTPS). Humidity and temperature measurements made in
real-time are shown graphically. The software is developed in
Energia integrated development environment (IDE). The
measured values are compared with the measurements recorded
by the ground station Laboratory set up by ISRO, India, on the
University campus.
Keywords— CC3200 LaunchPad, Humidity Sensor, WiFi,
Cloud technology, IoT.
I. INTRODUCTION
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a recent communication, in
which a network connects all things to the internet for
communicating through the sensing devices with suitable
protocols, and exchange data with each other by using
wireless sensor networks [1]. Using an IoT the device is
connected to the internet and all the information is shared with
other objects without human intervention. The IoT is meant to
measure real-world events and controlling the specific
phenomena. IoT gives the information in all sectors of
agriculture, healthcare, home appliances, etc. With the
increase in the number and functionalities of sensors and
actuators, the IoT which interconnects a particular set of
things, is easily programmable, and more capable of
interacting with humans [2].
In the present scenario of information and communication
technology, IoT has brought out a change in the things around
us leading to a total change in our ecosystem. It has percolated
it routes starting from home up to the advanced
communication. Thus, the concept of IoT makes the internet,
even more, immersive and pervasive. Further, the amount of
information we gather from different sources and making
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them available for free access is increasing exponentially. In
this context, embedded systems play a vital role in IoT; these
embedded systems use an admixture of digital and analog
subsystems in gathering information from sensors.
A collection of information in-and-around us are done by
edge nodes or things. In general, edge node contains a
sensor(s), an interface unit (embedded system) and power
source. Thus, understanding of IoT starts from edge node.
Unimaginable parameters can be measured and the
corresponding data can be sent over the internet through the
gateways. Some of the examples of these edge nodes that have
become an integral part of our life are smart phones,
entertainment and health (blood pressure, blood sugar etc.)
tracking devices. Controlling of air suspension in automobiles
with prior information on the health of the road is also another
example. As far as the numbers of things in the ecosystem are
concerned, it is estimated that the number of things grows
from 0.5 billion in 2000 to 50.1 billion by 2020.
In such a complex scenario, the application of the IoT
paradigm shift towards measuring and controlling parameters
like humidity, temperature, pressure, soil properties etc. that
are of paramount importance.
Now a days there is a lot of advancement and development
in electronic things which in turn brought in lots of changes in
communication, identification and computing capabilities with
low cost and small size. It is for this reason that small size
electronic devices are easily integrated into other systems or
devices. The IoT can connect such embedded system (s) with
internet, basing on the following characteristics:
• Things to acquire the information.
• Things to process the information
• Improve the security and privacy.
1. Things to acquire the information
In IoT, the objects acquire the information using sensors
and RFID which are integrated into a system at anytime and
from anywhere.
2. Things to process the information
The information is processed using different
communication techniques like wire communication, network
technologies, telecommunication networks, and the internet.
3. Improve the security and privacy
To improve the security and privacy in IoT, data is
collected using various intelligent computing technologies
including Cloud Computing technology, which has the ability
to support the IoT applications [3].
Development of technologies related to nanoelectronics,
communications, sensors, smart phones, embedded systems,
Cloud networking, and software is extremely important that
provides information on the objects connected to the internet.
On the other hand, these technologies also support the IoT
products in all sectors. Some of these technologies like
embedded systems act as a gateway between the digital world
and physical world of real things. Robots, smart homes,
vehicles that drive themselves are few examples of cyber-
physical systems which is a part of IoT.
Cloud Computing Technology
Internet of Things and Cloud Computing technologies
provide new opportunities in IoT-based applications and
services. In IoT applications, sensor data will be available in
Cloud environment [4]. Cloud Computing technology
provides three different kinds of services to the user, such as:
(i). Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), (ii). Platform as a
Service (PaaS) and (iii). Software as a Service (SaaS). These
are run either by private, public or virtual private Cloud or a
combination of Cloud types. Cloud Computing provides
security, monitoring and maintenance of data. The main use of
the Cloud technology is an efficient use of resources and cost
reduction. It has high flexibility, accessibility and device
independence. We also consider the combination of Cloud
Computing and IoT technologies together as a new model:
‘CloudIoT’. This CloudIoT is expected to disrupt both current
and future Internet [5].
Networks used in IoT
Present communication technologies are: wired and
wireless. These technologies are helpful in developing the IoT.
Wireless networks such as WLAN, ZigBee, Bluetooth, GSM,
and NFC are indeed very useful to add the things to the
internet with minimum hardware and software [6]. Using
wireless networks, the IoT user can make the objects to
interact with other objects while connected to the internet are
identified by their IP (Internet Protocol) address. These IP
addresses are either IPv4/IPv6 version.
Weather plays a vital role on global life. Further, sensors
are used in weather monitoring and controlling of weather
parameters. Temperature and humidity are the key parameters
in weather monitoring schemes. Certain integrated sensors use
a single module to measure humidity as well as temperature.
One such sensor, namely, HRT393 is used in the present work
to measure relative humidity and temperature.
Several papers have appeared in the literature which
discusses about the measurement and monitoring of humidity.
Monitoring of humidity was carried out using different sensors
and microcontrollers. The work carried out by some
researchers related to the humidity measurement system is as
follows:
S.R Kumbhar [7] has designed and developed
microcontroller based irrigation control system for plantation.
The system integrated with PIC Microcontroller and HIH
4030 humidity sensor. The developed system measures the
humidity levels of the plant in real time, cutoff levels are also
maintained with the help of MOTOR. Kshitij Shinghal [8] has
constructed HCH-1000 intelligent humidity monitoring system
for agricultural application by the integration of 8051
microcontrollers. The developed system also measures the soil
moisture. Gajjar. S [9] has designed and developed HTU21D
based humidity and temperature measurement wireless sensor
network by the integration of TI’s MSP430F5132
microcontroller. Norberto Barroca [10] has constructed
SHT21s based temperature and humidity monitoring with the
concrete structure using wireless sensor networks and
PIC18F4680 microcontroller. From the literature, it clears that
the automatic measurement of humidity and temperature with
advanced technology like cloud computing was not found.
In the present work we designed and developed a scheme to
measure the humidity and temperature using an integrated
sensor interfaced with the on-chip ARM processor of IC
CC3200. Measured parameters are uploaded to the cloud using
the on-chip WiFi and on-board antenna of CC3200
LaunchPad. The cloud technology displays the measured
parameters for every minute and these values can be accessed
anywhere in the World. The remaining part of the paper is
divided in to three sections. Section II presents the hardware
and software details of the present work. The experimental
results are presented in Section III. Conclusions drawn basing
on the present experimental results is given in Section IV.
II. HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE DESCRIPTIONS
The hardware developed in the present work is built around
the Texas Instruments’ SimpleLink WiFi module available in
the form of LaunchPad: CC3200, and theHRT393 Humidity
sensor. The firmware is developed using both Code Composer
Studio (CCS) and Arduino-type Integrated Development
Environment (IDE): Energia. in for the hardware is developed
using Energia IDE. The description of the hardware and
software is as follows.
A. Hardware description
A.1. TI CC3200 LaunchPad Board
The CC3200 LaunchPad is the first internet-on-chip low
power microcontroller board developed by Texas Instruments
with 802.11 b/g/n WiFi connectivity. It has a high-
performance 32-bit ARM-Cortex M4 @ 80MHz
microcontroller unit. The Network Processor contain: TCP/IP
&TLS/SSL status, HTTP server and multiple protocols [11]. It
has input peripherals such as built-in DC-DC converter so that
it can operate in a voltage range of 2.1-3.6V, Static RAM of
256 kB that is loaded with the code. The board contains built-
in USB-to-JTAG interface for debugging, FLASH memory of
8MB for programming, built in antenna and U.FL connectors,
two general purpose switches, three LEDs and also thermopile
sensor and accelerometer, 2X20- pin headers that provide
general purpose I/O, four ADC channels, I2C, SPI, PWM.
A.2. HRT393 Humidity Sensor The photograph of the hardware developed in the present
HRT393 Humidity Sensor senses the humidity and study after interfacing the sensor HT393 with CC3200
temperature present in the atmosphere. The output of the LaunchPad is shown fig.3. Screen shot of the on-line data
HRT393 sensor is in terms of analog voltage for both acquisition values of temperature and humidity along with
parameters. The relative humidity and temperature are M2X response code displayed on hyper terminal is shown in
evaluated using the formulae [12], [13]: fig.4. Further, the humidity and temperature data measured
Relative Humidity= (3.71*POW (voltage_hum, 3)) - with HRT 393 and the same data uploaded to the cloud
(20.65*POW (voltage_hum, 2)) + (64.81*voltage_hum) displayed on M2X webpage in terms of the stream names:
+27.44; voltage_hum: voltage corresponding to measured “Humidity” and “Temp” are shown in figs. 5 and 6,
humidity respectively, as screen shots.
Temperature= (5.26*POW (voltage_temp, 3)) + (27.34*POW
(voltage_temp, 2)) + (68.87*voltage_temp) -17.81;
voltage_temp: voltage corresponding to measured temperature
A.3. AT&TM2X Cloud Technology
AT&T’s M2X is a Cloud–based data storage, service and
management system for the IoT. M2X service gathers data in
real-time from connected devices like sensors and translates to
meaningful information. Individual sensors are identified by
their device ID, API key and stream name. M2X has a client
library for Energia. Through these library APIs the LaunchPad
used in the present work is connected to M2X Cloud by using Fig. 3. Photograph of the hardware developed in the present study
the SimpleLink WiFi device.This is done by first signing up
for M2X account [15]. In the present work our M2X device
name is: CC3200 with device ID:
f2e62e729bda20e8b692e96325e48627, and API key:
3a06aa40bf67fc5ffbd4d74cf2a9ee46.
A.4. Circuit description
CC3200 comes in 64-pin QFN package with majority of
the pins multiplexed. Further, the pin function of each pin is
controlled by its hardware configuration and the associated
internal registers. Output pins from HT393 are connected to
pins 57, 58 of CC3200. Block diagram and circuit diagram of
the present work are shown in figs. 1and 2, respectively.
Fig. 4.Screen shot of the data acquisition and M2X response code
Data
acquisiti
on on
HRT393 CC3200 AT&T, PC/laptop
Humidity LaunchPad WIFI M2X via
Sensor Antenna
cloud wireless
technology
commu
nication

Fig. 1. Block diagram of humidity measurement system

Fig. 5. Screen shot of the humidity measured by the HRT393 on M2X

Fig. 2. Schematic diagram of interfacing HRT393 with CC3200 LaunchPad Fig. 6. Screen shot of the temperature measured by the HRT393on M2X.
B. Software description
In the present work, the firmware is developed using
Energia IDE. This IDE works well with Windows, Linux, and
Mac operating systems, and can be programmed easily [16].
The program is developed in Embedded C. The flowchart
regarding the development of firmware is shown in fig.7.
The minimum and maximum error percentages in the
measured humidity are 2.702 and 5.000, respectively. With
respect to temperature values, the error percentage is 4.166 on
all the measurements. The observed error in humidity is
attributed to the distance between our laboratory and the
observation centre.

TABLE I. Comparison of humidity and temperature values measured in the

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present work with the reference values [17]

Temperature
Include suitable libraries Temperature
Humidity Humidity values of
values values of using
values of Error
of the Capacitive
designed Resistance
Error in
Enter SSID name and Password of the network designed sensor system temperature tempe
in
system (RH %) humidity (°C) detector rature
(RH %) (Present (°C)
Enter device, stream name& M2X key (Present [17] (%) work) [17] (%)
work)
38 37 2.702 30 28.8 4.166
Initialize the Channel-0 and Channel-1 for 38 36 5.555 30 28.8 4.166
humidity and temperature measurements
38 38 0 30 28.8 4.166
39 39 0 30 28.8 4.166
40 40 0 30 28.8 4.166
Initialize two variables for humidity and
39 41 4.878 30 28.8 4.166
temperature storage
38 40 5 30 28.8 4.166

Connect to the network

Humidity measured Humidity referenced

Set 115200bps baud rate for UART 56

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Read Channel 0
Humidity (%)

Convert the digital data into humidity 42

Send data through UART 35

Read Channel 1
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Fig. 8.Plot of humidity values of measured and reference with respect to time
Send data through UART
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Temperature measured Temperature referenced
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Send the measured values of humidity
and temperature into M2X cloud. 44
Temperature (c0)

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Fig.7. Flow chart of the program developed in the present
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III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
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Humidity and temperature were measured simultaneously
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MP-100H. These values are graphically presented at different
times using ORIGIN software. Plots for humidity and
Fig.9. Plot of temperature values of measured and reference with respect to
temperature are shown in figs. 8 and 9, respectively. This time
result in the form of comparison is shown in Table 1.
 IV. CONCLUSION
In this paper we have designed and developed a CC3200-
based Cloud IoT for measuring humidity and temperature.
CC3200 is the first SimpleLink WiFi internet-on-chip
LaunchPad developed by Texas instruments, USA in 2014.
The HRT393 sensor is used for measuring humidity and
temperature. Measured parameters are sent to the Cloud
servers of AT&TM2X Cloud technology (HTTPS). Humidity
and temperature measurements made in real-time are shown
graphically. The software is developed in Energia integrated
development environment (IDE). The measured values are
compared with the measurements recorded by the ground
station Laboratory set up by ISRO, India, on the University
campus.
Acknowledgment
P. Divyavani is thankful to the Department of Science and
Technology (DST), New Delhi, for sanctioning the INSPIRE
fellowship and the authors are thankful to DST for sanctioning
FIST program in establishing VLSI and Embedded Laboratory
in the Department of Physics.
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