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Arduino Based Air Quality Monitoring IOT Project

In this tutorial, make an arduino based IOT project for air pollution monitoring using ThingSpeak platform.

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Air Quality Montoring System using Arduino

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//Program to 

#include <SoftwareSerial.h>

#include <LiquidCrystal.h>


LiquidCrystal lcd(13, 12, 6, 5, 4, 3);


float t=0;


char data = 0;


// replace with your channel's thingspeak API key

String apiKey = "8NBNB4VQ9F2EEWQM";


// connect 10 to TX of Serial USB

// connect 11 to RX of serial USB

SoftwareSerial ser(10,11); // RX, TX


// this runs once

void setup() 

{                

  // enable debug serial 

  //Serial.begin(9600);

  // enable software serial

  ser.begin(9600);

  lcd.begin(16, 2);


  lcd.setCursor(0,0); 

  lcd.print("Engineers Garage");

  lcd.setCursor(0,1);

  lcd.print("               "); 

  delay(3000);


  lcd.clear();

  lcd.setCursor(0,0);

  lcd.print("    IOT AIR");

  lcd.setCursor(0,1);

  lcd.print("QUALITY MONITOR");  

  delay(3000); 


 // pinMode(12, INPUT);

  

  // reset ESP8266 WiFi connection AT+CIPMUX=1 AT+CWJAP

  ser.println("AT");

  delay(1000);

  ser.println("AT+GMR");

  delay(1000);

  ser.println("AT+CWMODE=3");

  delay(1000);

  ser.println("AT+RST");

  delay(5000);

  ser.println("AT+CIPMUX=1");

  delay(1000);

  String cmd="AT+CWJAP=\"EngineersGarage\",\"egP@$$w0rd?\"";

  ser.println(cmd);

  delay(1000);

  ser.println("AT+CIFSR");

  delay(1000);


  lcd.clear();

  lcd.setCursor(0,0);

  lcd.print("      WIFI");

  lcd.setCursor(0,1);

  lcd.print("   CONNECTED");

 }



// the loop 

void loop()

{

  delay(1000);

  t = analogRead(A0);

  Serial.print("Airquality = ");

  Serial.println(t);


  lcd.clear();

  lcd.setCursor(0,0);

  lcd.print("  SENDING DATA");

  lcd.setCursor(0,1);

  lcd.print("    TO CLOUD");

  esp_8266();


}


void esp_8266()

{

   // TCP connection AT+CIPSTART=4,"TCP","184.106.153.149",80 

    String cmd = "AT+CIPSTART=4,\"TCP\",\"";

    cmd += "184.106.153.149"; // api.thingspeak.com

    cmd += "\",80";

    ser.println(cmd);

    Serial.println(cmd); 

    if(ser.find("Error"))

    {

      Serial.println("AT+CIPSTART error");

      return;

    }

  

  // prepare GET string GET https://api.thingspeak.com/update?api_key=LHAG4NSIYJ5UWS6U&field1=0\r\n\r\n

  String getStr = "GET /update?api_key=";

  getStr += apiKey;

  //getStr +="&field1=";

  //getStr +=String(h);

  getStr +="&field1=";

  getStr +=String(t);

  getStr += "\r\n\r\n";

  // send data length

  cmd = "AT+CIPSEND=4,";

  cmd += String(getStr.length());

  ser.println(cmd);

  Serial.println(cmd);

  delay(1000);

  ser.print(getStr);

  Serial.println(getStr);

     

  // thingspeak needs 15 sec delay between updates

  delay(16000);  

}

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Code for AIR Quality Monitoring System

C Header File
//Program to 

#include <SoftwareSerial.h>

#include <LiquidCrystal.h>


LiquidCrystal lcd(13, 12, 6, 5, 4, 3);


float t=0;


char data = 0;


// replace with your channel's thingspeak API key

String apiKey = "8NBNB4VQ9F2EEWQM";


// connect 10 to TX of Serial USB

// connect 11 to RX of serial USB

SoftwareSerial ser(10,11); // RX, TX


// this runs once

void setup() 

{                

  // enable debug serial 

  //Serial.begin(9600);

  // enable software serial

  ser.begin(9600);

  lcd.begin(16, 2);


  lcd.setCursor(0,0); 

  lcd.print("Engineers Garage");

  lcd.setCursor(0,1);

  lcd.print("               "); 

  delay(3000);


  lcd.clear();

  lcd.setCursor(0,0);

  lcd.print("    IOT AIR");

  lcd.setCursor(0,1);

  lcd.print("QUALITY MONITOR");  

  delay(3000); 


 // pinMode(12, INPUT);

  

  // reset ESP8266 WiFi connection AT+CIPMUX=1 AT+CWJAP

  ser.println("AT");

  delay(1000);

  ser.println("AT+GMR");

  delay(1000);

  ser.println("AT+CWMODE=3");

  delay(1000);

  ser.println("AT+RST");

  delay(5000);

  ser.println("AT+CIPMUX=1");

  delay(1000);

  String cmd="AT+CWJAP=\"EngineersGarage\",\"egP@$$w0rd?\"";

  ser.println(cmd);

  delay(1000);

  ser.println("AT+CIFSR");

  delay(1000);


  lcd.clear();

  lcd.setCursor(0,0);

  lcd.print("      WIFI");

  lcd.setCursor(0,1);

  lcd.print("   CONNECTED");

 }



// the loop 

void loop()

{

  delay(1000);

  t = analogRead(A0);

  Serial.print("Airquality = ");

  Serial.println(t);


  lcd.clear();

  lcd.setCursor(0,0);

  lcd.print("  SENDING DATA");

  lcd.setCursor(0,1);

  lcd.print("    TO CLOUD");

  esp_8266();


}


void esp_8266()

{

   // TCP connection AT+CIPSTART=4,"TCP","184.106.153.149",80 

    String cmd = "AT+CIPSTART=4,\"TCP\",\"";

    cmd += "184.106.153.149"; // api.thingspeak.com

    cmd += "\",80";

    ser.println(cmd);

    Serial.println(cmd); 

    if(ser.find("Error"))

    {

      Serial.println("AT+CIPSTART error");

      return;

    }

  

  // prepare GET string GET https://api.thingspeak.com/update?api_key=LHAG4NSIYJ5UWS6U&field1=0\r\n\r\n

  String getStr = "GET /update?api_key=";

  getStr += apiKey;

  //getStr +="&field1=";

  //getStr +=String(h);

  getStr +="&field1=";

  getStr +=String(t);

  getStr += "\r\n\r\n";

  // send data length

  cmd = "AT+CIPSEND=4,";

  cmd += String(getStr.length());

  ser.println(cmd);

  Serial.println(cmd);

  delay(1000);

  ser.print(getStr);

  Serial.println(getStr);

     

  // thingspeak needs 15 sec delay between updates

  delay(16000);  

}

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