IOT Based Weather Monitoring System

Introduction:
IOT is the network of physical devices that allow the devices to communicate
with each other. IOT allows remote sensing and control over the devices. It is an advanced
automation and analysis system which uses its sensors to deliver advanced and automated
products and services. These systems allow greater transparency, control, and good
performance. IOT has several automation applications like smart home, smart parking, smart
roads etc. ​Weather is the day-to-day state of the atmosphere that is hard to predict which
affects the activities of mankind and has great significance in many different domains.
However, the current weather station in the market is expensive and bulky which cause
inconvenience. The aim of this project is to design a weather station with real time notifications
for climatology monitoring, interface it to a cloud platform and analyse weather parameters.

Literature Survey:

S. No. Title and Author Year Description

1 “Cost Effective 2016 The proposed system uses the solar

Automatic Weather power panel. This system is used to
Station-a Review”, monitor temperature, wind speed,
wind direction, humidity and rain.
Mrs. M. M. Raste, The sensed data will be sent to GSM
Ms. A. A. Pujari, module and through gateway to the
Vinayak Aappasaheb personal computer. A server is
Pujari connected to the database.

2 “Real Time Data 2016 Proposed the weather monitoring

Transmission for system using real time data
Weather Monitoring transmission. The proposed system
System” uses VAISALA weather transmitter
sensor WXT520 to transmit the data
Ms. Poonam Khetmalis, to the control room. It sense the
Ms. Sanika Doke, parameters like wind speed, wind
Ms. Varsha Dherange, direction, precipitation, atmospheric
Prof. Satyashil Nagrale pressure, temperature, relative
humidity. This real time data is
transmitted wirelessly through GSM
over long distance. This system
 provides flexibility as needs
changes.

3 “Wireless 2014 They have proposed their system for

SensorNetwork System environmental monitoring
Design using Raspberry applications. This system includes an
Pi andArduino for in-situ base station and a number of
Environmental distributed wireless sensor nodes.
Monitoring Base station is designed using
Applications”, Raspberry Pi Model B. networked
sensor nodes are developed using
Sheikh Ferdoush, Arduino and Zigbee modules. To
Xinorong Li access the sensor nodes and data
from the outside world, a web
application is developed on the base
station using the Apache HTTP web
server. This system is low-cost,
compact, scalable, easy to
customize, easy to deploy and easy
to maintain. This system can be
expanded by integrating additional
sensing modalities to sensor nodes.
Also web interface can be further
developed.

4 “Wireless Monitoring of 2014 They have proposed their system to

Soil Moisture, develop wireless sensor network for
Temperature an agricultural environment. This
andHumidity using system uses the Wireless Sensor
Zigbee in Agriculture”, Networks which consisted of radio
frequency transceiver, sensors,
Prof. C. H. Chavan, microcontrollers and power sources.
Mr. V. Karande Hardware of this system includes 8
bit AVR, ZigBee, Bluetooth module,
temperature, humidity, soil
moisture sensors, LCD. This system
is reliable and efficient for
agricultural parameters monitoring.
 5 “Weather Forecasting 2016 M. Rahaman Laskar et al. presented
using Arduino Based paper on weather forecasting using
Cube-Sat”, Arduino and Cube-Sat. : This
proposed system uses temperature
R. Bhattacharjee, and humidity sensor (DHT11),
M. Sau Giri and pressure and altitude sensor
P. Bhattacharya, (BMP180) and accelerometer
(ADXL-335). The data processing
unit Arduino Uno is used. Cube
satellite is used to provide
information of weather from
anywhere without using network. A
gas balloon is used to hold and carry
the Cube satellite. This system is
simple to construct, portable, cost
efficient, low power consuming and
reliable. But there are some
limitations such as device may not
communicate at long distance
without powerful transceiver
section, at higher altitude record of
data with the help of gas balloon
may be a problem and components
may be damaged by rain or long
time use.

Proposed System:
The system proposed is an advanced solution for weather monitoring that uses
IoT to make its real time data easily accessible over a very wide range. The system deals with
monitoring weather and climate changes like
1. Temperature, humidity by using the DHT11 sensor,
2. Quality of air using MQ135 sensor.

Advantages:
● ​ nlike conventional weather monitoring instruments is very small and compact
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allowing it to be installed easily on rooftops.
 ● It is light and portable; this advantage allows us to easily carry it to remote
location for installation. Due to its design it can be easily be carried by a weather
balloon to measure atmospheric changes at high altitudes.
● The sensors used in this product are much cheaper compared to the ones that
are used in the existing weather monitoring systems making this design more
cost effective.
● Due to the presence of fewer moving parts less amount of maintenance will be
needed cutting down on maintenance charges.

References:

1. International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology (IJIRST)-Volume

1-May 2015’ The Real Time Temperature Sensing using Raspberry Pi.
2. M. Rahaman Laskar, R. Bhattacharjee, M. Sau Giri and P. Bhattacharya, “Weather
Forecasting using Arduino Based Cube-Sat”, Twelfth International MultiConference on
Information Processing (IMCIP)
3. Vinayak Appasaheb Pujari, Mrs. M. M. Raste, Ms. A. A. Pujari, “Cost Effective Automatic
Weather Station-a Review”, International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IJEEE)-Vol. No. 8 Issue 01, January-June 2016
4. Prof. Satyashil Nagrale, Ms. Poonam Khetmalis, Ms. Sanika Doke, Ms. Varsha Dherange,
“Real Time Data Transmission for Weather Monitoring System”, International Research
Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)-Volume: 03 Issue: 02 , Feb 2016.
5. Sheikh Ferdoush, Xinorong Li, “Wireless SensorNetwork System Design using Raspberry
Pi andArduino for Environmental Monitoring Applications”, Procedia Computer Science.
6. Prof. C. H. Chavan, Mr. V. Karande“Wireless Monitoring of Soil Moisture, Temperature
andHumidity using Zigbee in Agriculture”, International Journal of Engineering Trends
and Technology (IJETT)-Volume 11 Number 10 – May 2014.