Internet of Things Platform for Environmental Monitoring

The development of the Internet of Things has significantly facilitated environmental monitoring because there are a number of applications used for monitoring air quality. This paper presents a way for creation an IoT platform that consists of wireless sensor nodes based on Arduino devices, a Raspberry Pi gateway which enables network connectivity for sensor nodes, and network applications which are used for collecting data and their visual presentation to the end user through web interface and/or mobile application. LoRaWAN technology was used for connecting sensor nodes to the cloud application due to the number of advantages such as the range of communication and the power consumption over competitive technologies. The Things Network as a globally distributed network platform was chosen for the data transport, and data visualization was done by myDevices Cayenne application.