Hi,
I have been given a project to receive data such as temperature of one location and send the data over the internet to another location where it can be viewed.
currently i have a arduino uno and wood like to know is there any other products that need to be purchased and what are the steps that have to be done to do this projects.
Hi Jeremytan,
First thing is getting data onto internet so you will probably need an Ethernet shield to do this directly or if you can connect the UNO to a internet connected PC then use Serial to send data to PC that then post data on internet.
Secondly you will also need some form of device to read the temperature but this depends on things like temperature range to read and accuracy of temperature reading needed.
You can google how to use a thermometer sensor, there are many online that are cheap. As far as communication you can either use a ethernet cable to directly post to the internet, or send serial data to a PC, and have it post the data. The later is harder. How do you intend to display the data online?
Arduino 1.0 comes with a sample sketch named "BarometricPressureWebServer.ino". You can easily adapt it to be a "TempWebServer".
Then, you can view the page served by this TempServer in any browser.
Hi,
The sensor part is not my group. So another group will be collecting the data and sending it to us. From there we need to get the data and send it into a MySQL database. We have to present the data online using graph with time stamp. Basically we have to get the data and send. We currently don't know where to start but have already don't research on the product and it's function
So your group has nothing to do with Arduino then.
Your group needs to write a few pages, in your favorite technology (ASP, PHP, Java etc), that get the page from the "sensor web server", saves it to MySQL, then serves it back to the client after retrieves the data from MySQL into a graphic format.
There are a few steps involved, it is not trivial if you've never done anything like this before.