How conscious are you about the environment you are living in? Today, the internet of things has become a driving force for this essential consciousness and also to have a reliable environmental monitoring system. Environmental monitoring using IoT has enabled whole new level of framework to monitor just about any process and make it simple and efficient.
Environmental monitoring is not limited to air quality and goes beyond our comprehension. Most monitored use cases include:
- Monitoring air for air quality, carbon-dioxide and other harmful gases
- Monitoring water for pollutants, contaminants and flood water levels
- Monitoring soil for moisture and vibration levels
- Monitoring forests and fisheries
- Monitoring data centers
While environmental monitoring is growing at the rate of 4.1% from 2020 to 2025, IoT devices also aim to address sustainable growth and carbon emissions. And the best part is that this sustainable growth is not limited to any one particular industry. The techniques also include smart moves like:
- Improved water quality distribution
- Sensor based data collection
- Automated waste management
- Data driven farming
- Biometric location
- Wireless sensor networking
 Let’s look at the few industries we help survive and sustain through IoT monitored environmental systems:
In industries and factories, especially mining, the air contamination or any other hazardous situation can be life threatening to the workers there. In such large scale sensor deployment, IOT comes in an excellent industrial application, saving so many lives through early detections and immediate repairs being done due to constant monitoring. Connection and deployment at such a large scale is only possible through the use of the internet of things as there are many types of gases involved including the potentially harmful ones. A really smart environment monitor is required. Hence such deployment will include everything from power consumption issues, data management, connectivity and a lot more.
Data is stored in the Data Center with a web server with user accessibility and connectivity to the internet. It can be accessed from any device from anywhere in the world through a web application. In fact, the users can set up notifications for critical changes, vital information to be provided immediately and even what else to do in emergency situations. It is a boon of this century that we can sit anywhere in the world and know the temperature and humidity levels at your factory in another country!
There are few systems that can monitor the environment today, but the internet of things has taken over with its low cost – high output models. It is cloud-based and also the data is visualizable. IoT systems have the highest level of accuracy and reliability one can think of in such situations for sure.Â
There is so much data available online about using IoT for environmental monitoring systems, especially for factories and industrial areas. We need to make use of the latest technologies to ensure the safety of our industrial / factory workers and our systems.
