Robert Ringel
Published © CC BY

Green Walls for City Climate

This project lets you measure the impact of green roofs and walls on city climate during hot summer days. It uses Raspberry Pi and Node-RED.

IntermediateFull instructions provided5 hours708
Green Walls for City Climate

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless
Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless
×1
DHT11 Temperature & Humidity Sensor (4 pins)
DHT11 Temperature & Humidity Sensor (4 pins)
×1
BH1750FVI
×1

Software apps and online services

Raspbian
Raspberry Pi Raspbian
Node-RED
Node-RED

Hand tools and fabrication machines

Soldering iron (generic)
Soldering iron (generic)

Story

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Custom parts and enclosures

Complete project cheat sheet

Complete project cheat sheet - Russian language

Complete project cheat sheet - Chinese language

Complete project cheat sheet - German language

Schematics

Circuit schema

Shows how to connect the BH1750 light sensor and the DHT11 temperature sensor to the Raspi.

Code

The Node-RED flow to measure and save sensor data.

JSON
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Robert Ringel

Robert Ringel

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