Raspberry Pi Based Pollution and Climate Monitoring System Using Internet of Things

Abstract

In recent years pollution and global warming have increased rapidly. Air and sound pollution is more in urban areas as compared to rural areas due to denser vehicular traffic and rapid industrialization. Air pollution causes long term health effects like lung cancer and heart diseases, and also it causes short term health issues such as headaches, eye infections and throat infection. Air pollution increases the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere which results in global warming. Hence it is necessary to monitor the various climate and pollution parameters such as temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, sound, toxic content of hazardous gases, and light intensity. As we need to know the location of the data, we also normally measure the latitude and longitude of the place. In this paper, a pollution and climate monitoring system is developed which can measure the above parameters at regular intervals using appropriate sensors and uploads them on to the webpage using Internet of Things (IoT) technology. The webpage is developed using HTML and PHP. Raspberry Pi3 computer is the central component used for data collection from the sensors and uploading parameters on to the webpage. Python language is used development of the software code. The uploaded pollution and climate parameters of a particular place can be viewed by logging on to the webpage from anywhere in the world.