Send sensor data from Arduino standalone to laptop using WiFi

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Hi there,

I'm currently working on a project where I will have multiple sensors that sample water quality. What I hope to do it have the Arduino and the sensors sitting in a lake with the laptop near by. The Arduino will then take the data from the sensors and send them to the laptop using WiFi.

So far I'm not sure if this is possible. There won't be any Internet access so logging the data to a server is out of the question. Is it possible to transfer data which to a laptop with no Internet access? If WiFi won't work would Bluetooth be a better solution?

Thanks for any help!

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Is it possible to transfer data which to a laptop with no Internet access?

Yes you simply set up a peer to peer network ( PTP ) with your lap top and arduino / wifi shield.

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Grumpy_Mike:

Is it possible to transfer data which to a laptop with no Internet access?

Yes you simply set up a peer to peer network ( PTP ) with your lap top and arduino / wifi shield.

Thanks for the response. Could you explain a bit more about setting up the peer to peer network? Would you happen to know of a tutorial on how to connect the Arduino to a laptop using peer to peer?

Also from my research, if I wanted the data to be sent over Wifi to the laptop I would need some Windows application to save this data? I was hoping to use something like PuTTY but I wasn't sure if that's possible.

Thanks again for your help!

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Don't know about windows but on the Mac it is simply an option in the networks setup window. I think it is the same on a PC.

Putty is not normally connected to WiFi how about writing something in Processing and communicating using OSC.