A low cost environment monitoring system using raspberry Pi and arduino with Zigbee

Emerging environmental related problems have greater impact on technical, scientific, social and economical fields, which is why this issue needs attention. On a global scale this issue are being sort out using satellite based instruments. This paper discusses a monitoring system which gives information about environmental conditions on a more local level, the implementation area are categorize by industrial, home and office applications and briefly touches the technological advancements in monitoring the environment and bringing out the new scope in monitoring the current environment problems. This paper intends to provide information using wireless sensor technology which comprises of raspberry pi, Arduino Nano, Zigbee, wireless sensor network(WSN) and sensors. Realization of data gathered by sensors based on embedded raspbian Linux is displayed on Graphical User Interface (GUI). The system is developed using open source hardware raspberry pi and Zigbee which proves to be cost effective and having low power consumption. The sensors will gather the data of various environmental parameters and provide it to raspberry pi which act as a base station. Some sensors will directly process the data and provide it to the raspberry pi while some sensors will provide the data through Arduino Nano to raspberry pi using serial interface. The raspberry pi will then transmit the data using Zigbee and the processed data will be displayed on GUI through Zigbee that is on the receiver side.