Tinyos based WSN design for monitoring of cold storage warehouses using internet of things

With an increase in the number of warehouses, cold storage units and factories in today's industrialized and automated world, the need for monitoring various attributes in such factories has become a thing of great necessity. With advances in technology, and in particular, the various sensors to measure different parameters such as temperature, gases, humidity etc. have become more viable and affordable. Upcoming IoT architectures and wireless sensor networks allow real time remote monitoring and analysis of a system as well as the possibility to take immediate remedial actions if necessary. In order to incorporate all these features and understand the feasibility of the system, in our present work, we have developed a prototype consisting of a sensor network to measure and analyze temperature, humidity and carbon-monoxide gas levels. This work provides an overview of the development of an IoT based cold storage monitoring system.