IRJET- Arduino Based Weather Monitoring System

International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056
Volume: 05 Issue: 10 | Oct 2018 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072
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Arduino Based Weather Monitoring System
Yash J Joysher1, Jeba Shiny J2, Sathiya Narayanan S3, Pradeepan K4
1,2,3,4Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology,
Chennai Tamil Nadu – IN 600089
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Abstract - Weather is that the state oftheatmosphere,to the
degree that it's hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear
or cloudy. Most weather phenomena occur within the layer,
just under the layer. Weather usually refers to day-after-day
temperature and precipitation activity, whereas climate is
that the term for the common region conditions over longer
periods of your time. Once used while not qualification,
“weather”, is known to mean the weather of earth.
Observation the climatic conditions manually is tough. This
work is to develop an automatic system that monitors the
weather. The weather is driven by gas pressure
(temperature and moisture) variations between one place
and another. These pressure andtemperaturevariationswill
occur because of the sun angle at any explicit spot. Through
this technique we will mechanically collect the knowledge
regarding wetness and temperature. The small print square
measure hold on during an information and in keeping with
current and former knowledge we will manufacture the
leads to graphical manner within the system. The objective
of this paper is to formulate the weather and be able to
forecast the weather without human error.
Keywords - Climate control, Weather analysis,
Temperature Moderation, Moisture Control, Humidity
Control, Arduino.
INTRODUCTION
Weather forecasting is that the application of
science and technology to predict the state of the
atmosphere for a given location. People ingeneral havetried
to predict the weather informally for millennium and
formally since the nineteenth century. Weatherforecastsare
created by grouping quantitative knowledgeconcerningthis
state of the atmosphere on a given place and using scientific
understanding of atmospherical processes to project how
the atmosphere can evolve on that place. Weather is driven
by atmospheric pressure (temperature and moisture)
variations between one place and another. These pressure
and temperature variations will occur because of the sun
angle at any explicit spot that varies by latitude from the
tropics. The atmosphere may be a chaotic system, thus little
changes to a part of the system will grow to possess large
effects on the system as a whole. This makes it difficult to
accurately predict weather quitemanydaysearlier,although
weather forecasters are frequently working to increase this
limit through the scientific study of weather, meteorology.
It's theoretically not possible to create helpful every day
predictions quite concerning period of timeahead,imposing
a higher limit to potential for improved prediction ability.
Once an all-human endeavor primarily based upon
changes in air pressure, current weather, and sky condition,
foretelling currently depends on computer-based models
that take several atmospherical factors underconsideration.
Human input remains needed to choose the simplest
potential forecast model to base the forecast upon that
involves pattern recognition skills, tele-connections, data of
model performance, and data of model biases.
LITERATURE SURVEY
Through weather observationsystemweareableto
collect the data about humidness and temperature and in
keeping with current and former data we are able to
manufacture the ends up in graphical manner within the
system. once reviewing several articles, there are presently
no papers that mention observation the mixture of
temperature, lighting and humidness in one integrated
system and have actuators to change these settings.
additionally to this, there's one analysis paper that has
mentioned observation these three environmental
conditions; but, there has been no mention regardinghaving
actuators to change. Therefore our main plan was to coin a
system which will sense the most parts that formulates the
weather and may be able to forecast the weather without
human error.
Ancient forecasting strategies sometimes relied on
determined patterns of events, additionally termed pattern
recognition. For instance, it'd bediscoveredthatifthesunset
was significantly red, the subsequent day usually brought
sunshine. This expertise accumulated over the generations
to provide weather cognitive content. However, not all of
those predictions prove reliable, and lots of them have since
been found to not get up to rigorous applied math testing.
The best technique of prediction the weather, persistence,
depends upon today's conditions to forecast the conditions
tomorrow. This could be a valid manner of prediction the
weather once it's in a very steady state, like throughout the
summer season within the tropics. This technique of
prediction powerfully depends upon the presence of a
stagnant weather pattern. It will be helpful in each short
vary forecasts and long vary forecasts. Measurements of
atmospheric pressure and therefore the pressure tendency
(the modification of pressure over time) are utilized in
prediction since the late nineteenth century.
PROPOSED SYSTEM
There are loads of high end systems on the market
lately for around the clock weather monitoring. However

these systems are enforced on a really large scale, for
monitoring real time weather for a full town or state.
Implementing such system for a little space isn't possible,
since they're not designed for it and therefore the overhead
for maintaining such systems for a little space is extremely
high.
Our proposed system makes use of three sensors to
measure the weather /environment factors like
temperature, humidity, light intensity,temperatureandheat
index. The values browse from the sensors are processed by
the Arduino micro-controller and holdonduringa computer
file which might be processed upon to derive analysis. The
readings also are displayed on an on board liquid crystal
display for fast viewing. All thesereadingsareoftenanalyzed
to get the weather characteristics of a specific space and
record the weatherpattern. Theserecordedparameters vary
from places to places. All these necessities are fed into the
database and these values are necessities and recordedover
time. Using these values as input we are able to plot a mapof
a specific space over time. Based on this weather factorsand
planned values the set actions are done. The set action will
embrace turning on the heat once the temperature is colder
than the set price and turning on the coolingsystemonce the
temperature is hot or wet on the far side the set values. The
serial output from the Arduino micro-controller that are the
values read from the sensors also can be hold on in a
database. The database are often used as a supply for
information if we would like to show values through an
internet site or a standalone application.
fig-1: circuit diagram
The modules that frame the weather monitoring
system are fastidiously and well thought of, to createcertain
that the sensors used are givingtheforemostcorrectreading
and are compatible with the Arduino micro-controller. The
modules used for the weather monitoring system are
humidity sensor, temperature sensor, light sensor, LCD,
altitude sensor and atmospheric pressure sensor.
WORKING PRINCIPLE
The working rule of this work describes the
dependent functionality of thepartsandtheiroutput.Firstly,
all the parts are initialized by supplyingthedesiredpower of
+5v. There are 2 temperature sensors, lm35 and dht11; we
are using 2 temperature sensors to induce a correct value of
temperature reading and takingthetypical ofthetwovalues.
Looking on the temperature, hot air or cool air introduced to
keep up the temperature threshold value that is planned. If
the temperature is too low for the actual space hot air is
blown in to bring the temperaturetomoderation.Otherwise,
if the temperature is too high, cold air is blown and thereby
raising the temperature to the desired level. This is often
however temperature is manipulated. Secondly, there's an
LDR that work based on light intensity. Once the daylight is
just too much or not enough for the plant to handle, the
servo motor opens or closes the door of the glass box
supported the readings of the LDR. This helps in recording
and documenting the natural light incident on the area. The
natural intensity level could wary from time to time. This is
often vital in agricultural applications, wherever light is
needed for the growth of plants and a few plants might not
grow well in low light. On the other hand, once the sunshine
intensity is high throughout the year, such areas or places
are appropriate to line up solar energy stations. light
intensity in conjunction with different parameters like
temperature and humidness may be employed in predicting
forecast while not the employment of any satellite
information.
The gathered information is serially fed into a
laptop, that uses the com port to communicate with the
Arduino device and therefore the knowledge recorded is
hold on during a computer file. The computer file may be
directly foreign to an excel file with the functionality of a
macro. The foreign informationisthensortedandformatted,
and charts are then planned with the foreign information.
The charts present a visible illustration of the information
that shows the weather pattern over a recorded amount of
your time. The visual patterns indicatetheweather behavior
of the actual region. This is often the first objective of the
current work.
The DHT11 detector provides the present
temperature are humidness readings. The DHT11 offers out
analog output and is connected to the analog input of the
Arduino micro-controller A0. The dht11 detector has three
pins. Along with temperature and humidness the other
values that are calculated orderivedfromthedht11detector
is that the temperature, heat index etc. The temperature is
that the temperature at that air within the atmosphere
freezes to become water droplets and therefore the heat
index is that the heat felt by the human skin from the
atmosphere. This is often vital in places with high
humidness. Even supposing the temperatureperhapslower,
the body still feels heat. This is often because of the high
humidness within the air. Humidness is that the wetness
content within the air. High humidnesswithintheairusually
makes one to sweat or egest.

fig-2: working prototype
The lm35 could be a general purpose temperature
detector. The necessity of this detector is to get a further
reading of the temperature. Along with the dht11 sensor’s
temperature reading, we tend to calculate the lm35 sensors
temperature reading further and a mean of the two readings
are taken to get a correct reading of the encircling
temperature. Bmp180 detector is employed to live the air
pressure and therefore the temperature further. The air
pressure is employed to work out the relative
atmospheric pressure practicedwithintheclose.thisisoften
be} terribly helpful if we tend to are mistreatment the
system in high altitude atmosphere and a graduated price of
the altitude along with different environmental readings
provides an honest projection of the environment weather
pattern and that we can notice changes with increase or
decrease in altitude.
The readings from the sensors are displayedduring
a 16x2 liquid crystal display that is directly connected to the
Arduino micro-controller. This is often helpful after we are
using the device inside or solely to get the readings on a
screen. The liquid crystal display is additionally practical
once the device is connected to a portable computer
wherever the readings are recorded. There’s on-board
switch provided to show on/off the liquid crystal display so
as to preserve the battery just in case we tend to are
powering the device using external batteries. There’s a
switch provided to show on/off the LCD’s back-lightdisplay.
The back-light displayconsumesloadsofbatterypower. This
is often helpful after we need to preserve the battery and
additionally keep the liquid crystal display on.
fig-3: architecture diagram
Through weather monitoring system we are ableto
collect the information regarding humidness and
temperature and in line with current and formerdata weare
able to manufacture the ends up in graphical manner within
the system. The graphical charts may also be uploaded to
websites from wherever in it may be accessed from
anyplace. The information may also be used for pattern
analysis, wherever within the weather parameters are
recorded for an extended amount of your time. The
accumulated knowledge is employed for analysis for
weather prediction. thus our main plan was to coin a system
that may sense the most parts that formulates the weather
and might be ready to forecast the weather without human
error. However, regardless however little the typical error
becomes with someone system, massive errors inside any
explicit piece of guidance are still potential on any given
model run.
EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
All the modules were designed and all the elements
were assembled. The testing of every module was carried
out with success. The sensing element readings were
effectively retrieved in a very stable setting and keep infiles.
The files were then foreign to surpass automatically using
macros and also the informationwascleanandformatted for
a neater illustration. Graphical charts were then planned
mistreatment the info that bestowed a niceanalytical readof
weather pattern supported sensing elementreadings.Sothe
testing part was completed. This study was performed in a
very controlled manner. Thus, there's a requirement to
conduct more experiments in environments additional like
real weather. Table below has the results obtained within
the experiments.
table-1: results
CONCLUSION
This concludes that thecurrentwork wassuccessful
and it'll give a competent methodology for recording real
time weather readingsandfacilitatefarmerswhoseresource
depends on the weather in a very country like Asian country
to supply higher quality crops. It may be accustomed gather
data concerning the necessities for every space over the
years. The gathered data is employed to work out the best
conditions for plants to grow and also thefarmerwill modify
the atmosphere appropriate for the expansion of the plant.

This successively can have an enormous impact on
agriculture and additionally on farmers throughout the
globe. This system is developed for tiny space. It’s not net
primarily based system. In future, sensors to research air
quality using gas detectors may be enclosed and an online
interface or service to feed the info on to net might even be
designed.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The Authors would like to thank Ms. Vishnu Priya,
our project guide and the Department of Computer Science
and Engineering at the SRM Institute of Science and
Technology fortheir valuableguidance and gracioussupport
throughout the whole process of the project. And also
acknowledge their further involvement in the future
development of the project.
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