Design and Development of IoT-Cloud-based Lightning/Storm Detection System with an SMS Alert on Android Mobile

Weather monitoring in general and lightning detection in particular is of paramount importance since it is life threatening to humans and animals, dangerous to electronic gadgets. It is important to monitor the lightning detection in real-time to avoid the deaths caused by lightning. In this paper we present the design and development of an IoT based Storm (Lightning) detection system with a provision to display message on an Android mobile using Cloud computing technology. The entire system is built around Franklin lightning detector chip AS3935 on a thunder click board with an on-board integrated coil antenna MA5532. This board is connectedto the Texas Instruents' CC3200 LaunchPad and SIM900A GSM module to complete the design. The communication interface established between sensor and ThingSpeak cloud via CC3200 will help online data monitoring anywhere in the globe. Provision is made to store the history of lightning on a SIM card for further analysis such as estimation of rainfall. The experiment is performed at Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapuramu. The identified location and the lightning values are displayed on Cloud (IoT-Cloud). The software is developed using Energia IDE.