In our previous blog, we have seen how to upload sensor data to ThingSpeak. Now we will see how to use this to update the street light data into ThingSpeak cloud. In this project, we will use the LDR to detect the day/night environment and turns on the LED during night time as well as update the data to...
ThingSpeak is an Open-Source IoT application and API to store and retrieve data from Hardware devices and Sensors. It uses HTTP Protocol over the Internet or LAN for its communication. The MATLAB analytics is included to analyze and visualize the data received from your Hardware or Sensor Devices.We can create channels for each and every sensor data. These channels...
NodeMCU is a popular Wi-Fi based Development board in IoT Projects. Its predecessors are ESP-01, ESP8266-12E. The NodeMCU is based on ESP866 Series.As the name suggests it is a development board, it contains additional circuitry for Power supply USB, Communications, etc (Similar to an Arduino Uno is built around ATMEGA328 IC). Hence this board has built-in voltage regulators to...
In our previous tutorial, we have created a Home Automation using NodeMCU and Blynk. Using Blynk, we can control the devices anywhere in the World. We connected our NodeMCU with an optocoupler based relay and programmed it with Blynk code. Actually, it's very simple and no programming knowledge is required.Now in this tutorial, we will add an additional feature...
Sonoff is a WiFi controlled switch which is embedded with ESP8266 IC and has relays to control the device via the Internet. This IC can be flashed and reprogrammed by Arduino IDE. The makers of Sonoff published the libraries and Arduino files on their GitHub page. Initially, it has only for Sonoff made boards only, after that it supports...
NodeMCU is very popular in Home Automation. It's WiFi capabilities and Arduino IDE support making it easier for IoT Applications. It is very tiny and has many Digital I/O pins, Serial Communication and I2C Communication. NodeMCU has a micro USB port to program it using your existing mobile cable (no additional programmer needed). There is a successor called ESP32 Development board...
Blynk is an IoT platform with drag and drop mobile Application. It is an Open-Source Cloud IoT platform to control appliances and monitor sensor data from anywhere in the World. You just need to upload the standard Blynk Program into it (No Coding skills needed) and rest is done by the App itself. This makes the IoT applications with...
