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Smart Temperature Monitoring System

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Abstract Summer is showing its warm red color. We already know trees make much difference in temperature and weather. Even we have felt that as well. This small exercise of temperature monitoring was carried out to see technically how much relief the Green of trees gives against the Red hot of summer. We also learn how easy it is to make our own temperature monitoring device that can report temperature readings to the cloud through WiFi connectivity and can easily access readings through a mobile phone .   How to make our own temperature monitoring device. We can order below items online to make a Temperature monitoring device with internet connectivity. 1. ESP32 or ESP8266 for WiFi connectivity 2. DHT11 temperature and humidity sensor 3. Power bank to supply 5 V ( you might already have this) 4. Jumper cables For the software part, we will use Arduino IDE. We  will use DHT 11 Arduino library for DHT 11 temperature sensor and Firebase library for internet connectivity, there are so ma
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Automatic Drip Irrigation System for small plants

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Let's show our love for trees and plants with help of some Internet of Things. When we go out for 10-15 days, we always have to think about what to do for the watering of our household plants. What if we can water our plants automatically at a scheduled time or remotely?  Let's see how we can make an automatic Drip Irrigation system to do that: We will need the below items to make it: Drip irrigation kit according to the number of plants. a submersible pump used in coolers or fountains. water cane of suitable size. ESP32 or ESP8266 board. Relay control board. 5V power supply. wifi router. some items were already available, remaining we can order online. first, we need to arrange a drip irrigation kit as per plants and water level of the water cane, connect it with the water pump placed in the water cane. manually test the pump and see if it is watering plants? note the timings required for watering.  second, set up the ESP wifi module with a relay control board and test your pr
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Make your own TV Box and turn LCD TV into Smart TV

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Want to buy an Android TV Box like Mi Box 4k? Think before you go to buy it! If you can make your own such a box then why give your money to china? Maybe it would be a little costlier than Mi Box 4k, but it's your own made, and if it is made in bulk by someone then it can really compete with the Mi Box 4k in price too. Here is my version of the TV Box powered by the Raspberry Pi. I have a semi-smart TV(Sony Bravia LED TV) that does not have an android but it is able to play some formats of videos, pictures, and audio from a USB drive, supports screen mirroring from some android phones supports casting from Sony Xperia phones only😏 (now not available in the Indian market, but luckily I have an old one).  There are many cases in which I miss many features and I wish it would be great if I had a smart TV. Then I started looking for some android TV box but most of them are made in china.  So we can't buy it, really we can't, we must not buy it. Now there are many smart TVs als
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