A wireless framework for environmental monitoring and instant response alert

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the major technological trends which is utilized to monitor natural and human made resources to help in predicting and detecting exigence events like flood, fire, gas and water leak that can pose an intimidation to human life. This paper proposes a novel wireless prototype of a live weather monitoring station that uploads weather information received from the array of sensors to cloud database from a remote location which can be monitored from anywhere. The weather data is recorded, monitored and processed to forecast the different weather events and predict the upcoming disasters. The proposed battery powered cost-effective system can be installed anywhere within a locality or building to serve the maximum people. It is composed of three major modules-the wireless sensor module (IEEE802.15.4/Zigbee), the Arduino microcontroller with Ethernet/Wi-Fi network connectivity and an android app for users. Instant alert messages will be received to phone via text, e-mail and tweet notification through this app when something goes haywire. The user can view weather forecast for his location that he can share with the entire world and access archive of his station's current/historical data including graphs and charts to view climate trends.