Design and Development of E-Sense: IoT based Environment Monitoring System

Environment monitoring and control has become a vital part of present-day to control air pollution and help in agriculture, fishery, shipping and military operations. Environment monitoring using traditional manually operated Weather Monitoring Stations requires skilled technicians for operation, is not scalable, and demands human intervention, which increases the cost of the Weather Monitoring Station. To address these issues, authors have attempted to design and develop E-Sense, an Internet of Things based environment monitoring system. E-Sense measures important environment parameters like temperature, humidity, air quality index, CO concentrations, rain and light. The data collected from the sensors is transmitted to ThingSpeak using the ESP8266 Wi-Fi module. The ThingSpeak helps in analyzing the data and present it in graphical and tabular forms. Additionally, E-Sense creates a heat map of the monitored area. A testbed implementation and experimentation show that the system works without human intervention, is user friendly, compact, and is cost-efficient.