Student Projects
Contact Information
University: Yanbu Industrial College, RC Colleges and Institutes Division at Yanbu (Saudi Arabia)
Team Members:
(EIET Senior Design Project Members)
Yasser Eid Lapss Al Shreaf
Ahmed Adi Raghep Altaluoni
Awad Al Rashidi
Maher Khalid Ahmed
Advisers: Engr. Muhammad Javed Iqbal, Engr. Nabil Shaukat, Engr Zulfiqar Ali Leghari
Contact: miqbal@yic.edu.sa / mjavediqbal99@yahoo.com
Submission Language : English
Project Information
Title: Pollution Monitoring & Weather Station
Description:
Introduction
Weather monitoring has very high impact on modern era; it has given thousand years old agriculture a new dimension and made it more efficient and productive, modern day aircrafts cannot takeoff or land without having weather information. On other hand pollution can significantly affect quality of our life and endanger human with chorionic diseases which increase mortality in the region.
By developing Weather station and pollution monitoring system we can offer community service to the residents of Yanbu Industrial city (and other cities as well) by providing them weather and pollution updates and alerts. Our system collects information from different sensors through NI Wireless sensor network (WSN), the LabVIEW application acquires and analyzes the entire data and then broadcast the information and alerts to local community through LabVIEW web application and services, NI data dashboard for mobile devices and SMS. All the data is also logged for future reference.
Some of the benefits for local community and concerned departments are listed below;
- Our system can send high air pollution alerts to residents to wear masks and turn their ac to room circulation to protect them.
- Our system can guide farmers to plan their irrigation schedule.
- By weather forecasting, our system can help the residents to plan their outdoor activities or travelling.
- By careful weather data analyzing, suitable locations or seasons could be identified for wind turbines and solar panels.
- Researchers/teachers can utilize the acquired weather or pollution data in their advance research or to develop better understanding in this field among the students.
- It can provide information to civil contractor to plan their work timeline by predicting weather.
- It can send bad weather alerts to fishermen to plan their fishing activities.
- The municipality corporation can also get benefit out of this system with localized air quality and garbage monitoring unit.
Products used in the project:
NI Products:
- NI 9791 WSN Gateway
Selected as best product in 2010 and got Engineer choise award , it act as data gateway for weather and pullotion data
- NI 3202 WSN Node
Selected as best product in 2010 and got Engineer choise award , user firendly labview programble node,it act as wireless node for weather and pullotion sensors which have analog outputs.
- NI 3212 WSN Node
Selected as best product in 2010 and got Engineer choise award , user firendly labview programble node, It act as wireless node for temperature and digital sensor.
- NI LabVIEW Full Development System 2012 SP1
Very easy to use graphical programming language for the engineers scientist and researcher , we can quickly turn ideas into reality using this language all programming of this project is done in this language.
- NI LabVIEW Web Server and Web Publishing Tool
By using LabVIEW Web Server and Web publishing tool any one can remotely access weather and pollution VI through internet with LabVIEW run time engine. If the user is not having LabVIEW run time engine and he/she is having restricted and secured even though the LabVIEW support is there and using LabVIEW web services the user the can connect and access the weather and pollution data as a thin client in standard HTTP interface.
- NI Data Dash Board
By using Data Dashboard for LabVIEW , We make portable view of Weather and pollution application on tablet and smart phone. The app displays the values of network-published shared variables and/or Web services on charts, gauges, text indicators, and LEDs.
- NI Wireless Sensor Network tool kit
By using NI WSN Wireless tool kit for LabVIEW we program WSN nodes, this toolkit give benefit rapid development of graphical programming for your entire application.
- NI Vision toolkit
This kit used for web cam interface on to monitor weather condition from indoor window, this can also be used to detect cloud on the sky in the future.
- NI Data dashboard:
With the Data Dashboard for LabVIEW app, We can make portable view of Weather and pollution application. The app displays the values of network-published shared variables and/or Web services on charts, gauges, text indicators, and LEDs.
- LabVIEW 2012 and toolkits.
LabVIEW is graphical programming language used to develop variour types of applications. All module of our software will use LabVIEW 2012 and its tool kits.
Front Panel of Main VIs
We have used customize LabVIEW control to make front panel interface beautiful.
Current Weather User Interface:
Weather Statistics and Recording User Interface:
NOTE: Please see the attached documents for details.
