The idea of this project is to monitor the humidity, temperature and barometric pressure in ecological or zoological reserves and send them through the Lora module. We know that there are different species of animals and each of them survives under different atmospheric parameters and sometimes it is very difficult to put Wifi or satellite networks, or even these would be very expensive.
In the following video we see how this weather station works:
In the following video we see the parameters measured on a Nokia LCD screen.
This video shown in the first part, we can see that:
• The hardware used in this project.
• The software used to program Arduino UNO.
• The software used to create the application to show us how the captured data are saved in a database.
• The analysis of the database by graphs in Excel.
• Test made Personal Weather Station and PC.
Personal Weather Station serves us to monitor the relative humidity from 20 to 90%, temperature from -40 to 85 ° C and atmospheric pressure from 225 to 825 mmHg in real time.
The following photographs show us tests carried out with the meteorological station.
Humidity is the amount of water vapor in the air. Water vapor is the gaseous state of water and is invisible. Humidity indicates the likelihood of precipitation, dew, or fog. Higher humidity reduces the effectiveness of sweating in cooling the body by reducing the rate of evaporation of moisture from the skin.
There are three main measurements of humidity: absolute, relative and specific. Absolute humidity is the water content of air at a given temperature expressed in gram per cubic metre. Relative humidity, expressed as a percent, measures the current absolute humidity relative to the maximum (highest point) for that temperature. Specific humidity is a ratio of the water vapor content of the mixture to the total air content on a mass basis.
A Pressure Sensor measures pressure, typically of gases or liquids. Pressure is an expression of the force required to stop a fluid from expanding, and is usually stated in terms of force per unit area. A pressure sensor usually acts as a transducer; it generates a signal as a function of the pressure imposed. For the purposes of this article, such a signal is electrical.
Pressure sensors are used for control and monitoring in thousands of everyday applications. Pressure sensors can also be used to indirectly measure other variables such as fluid/gas flow, speed, water level, and altitude. Pressure sensors can alternatively be called pressure transducers, pressure transmitters, pressure senders, pressure indicators, piezometers and manometers, among other names.
Instructions:
Place the humidity and barometric sensors with the flat part looking up like the diagram. On the other hand you must connect a gateway with a LoRa module to a PC.
First you will need to open a terminal program like Cutecom (Linux), Hyperterminal or Putty (Windows). Follow the instructions in this tutorial.
Programs as Cutecom allow to enter hexadecimal numbers to enter these characters (Select Hex input). If you are using another program, you can use some tools to edit hexadecimal characters.
Type the following hexadecimal code to program the LoRa gateway with this specifications:
- Mode=4 (BW=500 CR=4/5 SF=12)
- Node address=3
- Channel=12_868
Arduino:
Upload the Arduino Code.
Upgrade:
This video shows the latest update of my project to which I have added a Carbon Monoxide sensor. I'm sensing in real time the following parameters: Humidity, Temperature, Barometric Pressure, Altitude and Carbon Monoxide.
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