Wireless Sensor Network integration to cloud service for data sharing

Wireless Sensor Network integration to cloud service for data sharing

The basic idea of the prototype is to implement the basic concept of the Internet of

 Things with a basic application are specified as an example. In the prototype implemented, I adopted the concept of a smart home to be the basic building block to implement the idea. In general, a smart home can include some kind of various types of sensors, which collect any type of data and connected to a coordinator as a gateway to be in turn connected to the Internet. In the implementation, I used temperature, and humidity sensing as an example of the data collected, these data according to the previous sections taking about the Wireless sensor networks (WSN), are goatherd via a coordinator unit to share it somewhere on the Internet, either a private hosting or a

Cloud service.

The project is composed of three layers:

The Model is an implementation of the wireless sensor network can form one of basic three networks:

•  Mesh network
•  Star network
• Mesh Star hybrid network

The temperature, humidity sensors form a mesh network, to make the most use of its advantages as mentioned before. An Abstract of the layers may be as follows:

Sensor Layer

Consists of two or more Wi-Fi modules, in turn, connected itself to the temperature sensors, in our case the DHT11 sensor.

Coordinator Layer

The coordinator layer consists of A wi-Fi module powered as a stand-alone unit. works as a station and access point, in turn, itself, is connected to the Internet via another access point, and it would be any type of APs as a hotspot mobile access point or a home router.

Supervision Layer

Consists of a laptop and a Mobile device connected both to the

Internet, and to the cloud platform.

Modules and Tools:

The main controllers in the circuit are the WiFi modules, they are basically considered as MCU micro control units, as we will see in the next subsections.

 Main modules:

2* Wi-Fi module ESP8266-01

1* DHT11 Temperature humidity sensor

1* PDU (Power Distribution Unit)

Different sizes of pin headers wires

Preparations

Now before we get ready to start programming the ESP-01 module, the Esp-01 has some preparations to set up before the programming process.

1.the spaces between the ESP-01 pins are 2mm

So for a solution, I built an adaptor to make it adjustable on the breadboard.

2.Second issue is the TTL is 3.3V and our computer voltage level is 5V so it needs conversion to rise up the voltage from 3.3V-5V. We can accomplish this using USB-TTL.

Programming Process

Since I had two ESPs, my target was to effectuate the layers, as previously mentioned before

 in last sections. The first layer was the sensor layer, an ESP-01 connected to the DHT11

 sensor. The DHT11 has three pins, (VCC, GND,& Signal).

The DHT11 connection with the ESP-01 is as follows:

1. VCC- to ESP-01 VCC to 3.3V
2. GND- to GND
3. Signal pin - to GPIO-02 of ESP

First, to effectuate the first layer, I considered the first ESP-01 as a Client, since its goal is to send the data collected to the cloud platform.

Using the Arduino IDE the effective function used was:

The function for setting the station mode: 

WiFi.mode(WIFI_STA);

The Function for determining whether the station is connected to the access point:

WiFi.connect(WL_CONNECTED);

Returns true when connected.

Defining Internet Parameters The Network, the ESP will be connected to

const char* WLAN_SSID = "ESP-AP";

const char* WLAN_PASS = "22446688";

IPAddress ip = localIP() ;

IPAddress gateway = (192,168,0,1);

IPAddress subnet = (255,255,255,0);

const char* hostName = "http://192.168.0.104";

To view the complete programming of Client and server ESP-01 and cloud service, 

check it on :

https://github.com/ZienabEsam/Wirless-Sensor-Network-integration-Data-collection-and-sharing-to-cloud-service

The WiFi model is Station and Access point. The main idea behind making it station then

 Access-point is to receive the data on a local host then pass it to the cloud API.

The operation in a pic can be presented with a client-server process.

Finally configuring the IoT platform to receive my data: The IoT platform I chose is Thingspeak because it's easy to work with actually.

The IoT platform is an open platform for the internet of things. Uses the MATLAB analysis to

analysis the data you collected,then share it to the cloud.The steps are very simple to use

 the platform,The same as using the SaaS in the cloud layer.

1.You sign up with a valid e-mail and a password.

2.Create a channel on which the data will be analyzed.

3.Set up the variables with time ,and the scale for each parameter.