Enhanced Mobile Microclimate System

Collecting data on temperature, humidity, and other environmental aspects is important in architectural fieldwork when trying to understand how these factors affect vernacular architecture. The devices for collecting this kind of data are expensive and cumbersome. Architecture specialists must carry multiple devices for the fieldwork and most of them need a physical computer connection to view the data. We propose a new mobile system that simplifies the current procedure for microclimate data collection. Compared with other existing devices, our solution is cheaper, more compact, and no need to have a wire connection to an external computer. Our solution uses Raspberry Pi 4, retail humidity, temperature, and light sensors, as well as a web application for keeping track of observed buildings and monitoring their microclimate data. This research is an extension to our previous work with improvements, such as making the web application responsive and lightweight along with improving security and providing data analysis of collected information.