EnviroPi: Taking a DIY Internet-of-Things approach to environmental monitoring @Raspberry_Pi #Environmental #IoT
Via Monica Maceli and on the journal code{4}lib is a paper on monitoring environmental conditions in cultural heritage organizations.
This article describes a do-it-yourself network of Bluetooth Low Energy-based wireless sensors, which seeks to manage earlier-identified trade-offs in cost, required technical skill, and maintainability, based on the Raspberry Pi™ single-board computer and a series of microcontroller boards. This builds on the author’s prior work exploring the construction of a low-cost Raspberry-Pi™ based datalogger, iterating upon reviewer and practitioners’ feedback to implement and reflect upon suggested improvements.
The system is based on the Raspberry Pi as a central station and Adafruit Bluefruit Feather nRF52 processors and sensors performing the monitoring.
Read the entire paper here. Are you doing environmental monitoring? Let us know in the comments section below.
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