INFRARED THERMOMETER WITH UBIDOTS, PART 2
UBIDOTS IOT SERVER CONFIGURATION
In the steps below I show you how to configure our first application using the Ubidots IoT service provider.
STEP 1.- First you have to open a free account on the official Ubidots site: https://ubidots.com/
You will receive a welcome message and you will have to upload your basic personal data.
STEP 2.- Now it is time to create a new Dashboard.
Add General Information to our Dashboard as shown below:
After clicking OK, the image below appears.
STEP 3.- Before adding Widgets, we must add a new device as shown below.
Select Blank Device as shown below:
Add Device name and Device label such as: arduino-nano-33
Once OK is clicked, we see the image below with the list of devices:
STEP 4.- Then I click on the created device "arduino nano-33" and the image below opens:
Here I find useful information such as the API Label (arduino-nano-33) and the TOKEN. We copy this data and paste it into the code from our previous Post (Blog #3).
STEP 5.- The next step is to click on the Add Variable icon and the image below is shown to us.
Now we click on the Raw icon, and type "temperature" as shown below:
STEP 6.- It's time to go back to step 3 and "Add New Widget". The image that opens is shown below:
STEP 7.- Click on the "Thermometer" icon, then the image shown below opens:
STEP 8.- We select the variable "temperature" and click OK. The following window opens with data to fill.
STEP 9.- Add the following data and then click OK:
Aggregation method: Last value
Name: THERMOMETER
Range value: 0 to 100
TEST
To do the test with this prototype, I have placed the Arduino NANO 33 IoT board out of the box, since I want to show how it works when I feed it via USB and with the battery.
The video below shows us the test carried out with the prototype working.
Below we see a screenshot when the Widget is working in real time:
Finally, after the test we can open the captured data for analysis as shown in the image below:
CONCLUSION:
So far the infrared temperature sensor worked very well. People with disabilities and the elderly can be helped to monitor their temperature remotely and without being in physical contact with the sensor.
It's the first time that I use the Ubidots IoT server and I liked the free version to learn how to use it, in addition to the fact that the documentation is complete.
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