Comprehensive Design and Analysis of an IoT-Enabled Environmental Monitoring System for Industrial Applications

Environmental monitoring refers to the tools and techniques designed to observe an environment, characterize its quality, and establish environmental parameters, to accurately quantify the impact an activity has on an environment. A warmer climate may result in lower thermal efficiency and reduced load-including shutdowns in thermal power plants. It is found in research that a rise in temperature of 1°C reduces the supply of nuclear power by about 0.5% through its effect on thermal efficiency. A drastic change in air pressure also indicates there could be a significant climate change. In the event of a radiological release accident, environmental data is required to reduce radiation exposure to humans. That’s why environmental monitoring is very important for a nuclear power plant. It can be a crucial matter for the industries also because environmental monitoring helps industries operate responsibly, minimize negative impacts on the planet, and contribute to a more sustainable future. An IoT-based system can do environmental monitoring. Anyone using an IoT-based system can get environmental data like temperature, pressure, humidity, etc. Here the projected system delivers sensor data which are got from the environment to an API called ThingSpeak over an HTTP protocol and allows storing of data. The proposed system works well and it shows reliability. The prototype has been used to monitor and analyse real-time data using graphical information of the environment.