Low Cost Temperature Monitor and Alert Thing

esp8266 temperature thingBelow is a dynamic chart of an IoT temperature sensor that I made to monitor the indoors or outdoors temperature at home.  I am using a free Android app called “IoT ThingSpeak Monitor” by Wilice. The app allows you to setup a widget to display the temperature and to set lower and upper limit temperature alarm notification triggers. The system uses the following technologies:

  1. esp8266-01 – this is a low cost WiFi SoC with a couple of General Purpose I/O.
  2. Dallas DS18B20 – this is a low cost one wire temperature sensor.
  3. Programmed with Arduino IDE – this is a free IDE used to develop the software.
  4. Thingspeak.com – used to store and chart data with a free account.
  5. IoT ThingSpeak Monitor Widget – used to monitor and alert free from Goolge Play

chart temperature sensor data

Stay tuned for more details.

About Louie

I have actively been interested and working in electronics, technology, computing, and scientific research for many years both as a practicing enthusiast and advanced maker, and in my professional career as an Experimental Scientist, Technology Manager, and IT Consultant. There are many insights I have gained over the years however, my failures have been my biggest source of frustration and learning.

I created the “Research Lab Notes” site to capture and share my thoughts, discoveries, resources, and show case my projects with people who share the same passion for learning and innovation.

While I will make ever effort to keep this blog simple and interesting, I will from time to time be blogging about advanced and complex topics because of my deeper interests. I hope you will find something of interest and more importantly learn something of value.

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