IoT enabled environmental monitoring system for smart cities

A smart city enables the effective utilization of resources and better quality of services to the citizens. To provide services such as air quality management, weather monitoring and automation of homes and buildings in a smart city, the basic parameters are temperature, humidity and CO
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. This paper presents a customised design of an Internet of Things (IoT) enabled environment monitoring system to monitor temperature, humidity and CO2. In developed system, data is sent from the transmitter node to the receiver node. The data received at the receiver node is monitored and recorded in an excel sheet in a personal computer (PC) through a Graphical User Interface (GUI), made in LabVIEW. An Android application has also been developed through which data is transferred from LabVIEW to a smartphone, for monitoring data remotely. The results and the performance of the proposed system is discussed.