Ruchir Sharma
Published © GPL3+

Air Quality Monitoring

Arduino is used with MQ-135 to determine the air quality and then this value is updated to ThingSpeak channel.

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Third Place
2018 China-US Young Maker Competition
Air Quality Monitoring

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Arduino UNO
Arduino UNO
×1
ESP8266 ESP-01
Espressif ESP8266 ESP-01
×1
RGB Backlight LCD - 16x2
Adafruit RGB Backlight LCD - 16x2
×1
MQ-135 Gas Sensor
×1
Breadboard (generic)
Breadboard (generic)
×1

Software apps and online services

Arduino IDE
Arduino IDE
ThingSpeak API
ThingSpeak API

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Schematics

Interfacing of Arduino uno, LCD, gas sensor and ESP8266

Code

Air_qual

Arduino
To be used in Arduino Uno
#include <SoftwareSerial.h>
#include <LiquidCrystal.h>

LiquidCrystal lcd(13, 12, 6, 5, 4, 3); // LCD connections
/*
 D13 ==> RS
GND  ==>   R/W
D12  ==> Enable
D6   ==> DB4
D5   ==> DB5
D4   ==> DB6
D3   ==> DB7
 
*/

float t=0;
char data = 0;

String apiKey = "";  // Write API key




// connect 8 to TX of ESP
// connect 9 to RX of ESP
SoftwareSerial ser(8,9); // RX, TX

void setup() 

{                
// enable debug serial 
  Serial.begin(9600); //  serial data transmission at Baudrate of 9600

// enable software serial

  ser.begin(9600); 
  lcd.begin(16, 2);  // to intialize LCD


  lcd.setCursor(0,0); 

  lcd.print("    Welcome");

  lcd.setCursor(0,1);

  lcd.print("       To        "); 

  delay(3000);


  lcd.clear();

  lcd.setCursor(0,0);

  lcd.print("     AIR"); 

  lcd.setCursor(0,1);

  lcd.print("QUALITY MONITOR");  

  delay(3000); 


  

  ser.println("AT");  // Attenuation

  delay(1000);

  ser.println("AT+GMR"); // To view version info for ESP-01 output: 00160901 and ESP-12 output: 0018000902-AI03

  delay(1000);

  ser.println("AT+CWMODE=3"); // To determine WiFi mode
/*
1 = Station mode (client)
2 = AP mode (host)
3 = AP + Station mode (ESP8266 has a dual mode) 
*/
   

  delay(1000);

  ser.println("AT+RST"); // To restart the module

  delay(5000);

  ser.println("AT+CIPMUX=1"); // Enable multiple connections
  /*

    0: Single connection
    1: Multiple connections (MAX 4)
 
*/
   

  delay(1000);

  String cmd="AT+CWJAP=\"SSID\",\"PASSWORD\""; // connect to Wi-Fi 

  ser.println(cmd);

  delay(1000);

  ser.println("AT+CIFSR"); // Return or get the local IP address

  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);  // Read sensor value and stores in a variable t

  Serial.print("Airquality = ");

  Serial.println(t);

  lcd.clear();
  lcd.setCursor (0, 0);
  lcd.print ("Air Qual: ");
  lcd.print (t);
  lcd.print (" PPM ");
  
  lcd.setCursor (0,1);
  if (t<=500)
   {
   lcd.print("Fresh Air");
   Serial.print("Fresh Air ");
   
}
  else if( t>=500 && t<=1000 )
{
   lcd.print("Poor Air");
   Serial.print("Poor Air");
  
}
  else if (t>=1000 )
{
  lcd.print("Very Poor");
  Serial.print("Very Poor");
  
}
  //lcd.scrollDisplayLeft();
  delay(10000);

  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\",\"";  // Establish TCP connection
    /*
     AT+CIPSTART=id,type,addr,port
     
    id: 0-4, id of connection
    type: String, “TCP” or “UDP”
    addr: String, remote IP
    port: String, remote port
 
    */
    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;

    }

  String getStr = "GET /update?api_key=";  // 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"; // Send data AT+CIPSEND=id,length

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

  ser.println(cmd);

  Serial.println(cmd);

  delay(1000);

  ser.print(getStr);

  Serial.println(getStr);

     

  // thingspeak needs 16 sec delay between updates

  delay(16000);  

}

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Ruchir Sharma

Ruchir Sharma

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Awards
Third Place
2018 China-US Young Maker Competition
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