Connect an Air Pollution Sensor

In this lesson you are going to learn how to connect your sensor to the network and make it publish data. You will see how it is easy to become a member of a global sensor network!

Note

Source code is located here

In this section we are not going to create a liability contract. Instead we will teach Arduino with sensors to publish the data by a request. All measurements will be published as a Result message

Arduino

Let’s begin with an Arduino circuit. You need the following components:

  • Arduino Uno
  • Optical Dust Sensor Sharp GP2Y1010AU0F
  • Gas Sensor MQ-2
  • Gas Sensor MQ-7
  • Resistor 150 Ohm
  • Capacitor 220 uF
  • Wires

Connect all parts as described below:

Arduino schema

A firmware for Arduino Uno is in sensor_city/scetches folder. In order to upload it to the board use Arduino IDE.

Arduino IDE

Aira

Note

The following steps are performed in Aira client. You can download the latest image from this page. It’s convenient to connect via SSH

After you have imported the image to VirtualBox, connect Arduino via USB to your PC and enable serial port forwarding. You should check Enable Serial Port and assign /dev/ttyACM0 in Path/Address. Inside the virtual machine /dev/ttyS0 refers to your external Arduino.

Set a port

Finally launch the image and run these command:

$ roslaunch sensor_city publish_data.launch

Hint

Check out the source code to learn how it works under the hood!

Now Aira patiently waits for a signal to publish the measurements. Go to Dapp and click on Broadcast signal. You should see the data!