The Design and Implementation of GPS Controlled Environment Monitoring Robotic System based on IoT and ARM

摘要

Environmental monitoring systems are often designed to measure and log the current status of an environment or to establish trends in environmental parameters. In this paper, We proposed an autonomous robotic system that is designed and implemented to monitor environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity, air quality, and harmful gas concentration. The robot has GPS coordinates, and it can store data on the ThingSpeak IoT platform. The mobile robot is controlled by a smartphone which runs an app built on the Android platform. The whole system is realized using a cost-effective ARM-based embedded system called Arduino and Raspberry Pi which communicates through a wireless network to the IoT platform, where data are stored, processed and can be accessed using a computer or any smart device from anywhere. The system can update sensor data to IoT server every 15 seconds. The stored data can be used for further analysis of the reduction of pollution, save energy and provide an overall living environment enhancement. The robotic system has designed for cost-effective remote monitoring environmental parameters without any human intervention to avoid health risk efficiently. A proof-of-concept prototype has been developed to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed system.