REMOTE HUMIDITY AND TEMPERATURE REAL TIME MONITORING SYSTEM FOR STUDYING SEED BIOLOGY

dc.contributor.advisor Sbenaty, Saleh en_US
dc.contributor.author Balachandran, Thiruparan en_US
dc.contributor.committeemember Walck, Jeffrey en_US
dc.contributor.committeemember Chen, Chong en_US
dc.contributor.department Engineering Technology en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2014-06-02T18:49:46Z
dc.date.available 2014-06-02T18:49:46Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-31 en_US
dc.description.abstract This thesis discusses the design, prototyping, and testing of a remote monitoring system that is used to study the biology of seeds under various controlled conditions. Seed scientists use air-tight boxes to maintain relative humidity, which influences seed longevity and seed dormancy break. The common practice is the use of super-saturated solutions either with different chemicals or different concentrations of LiCl to create various relative humidity. Theretofore, no known system has been developed to remotely monitor the environmental conditions inside these boxes in real time. This thesis discusses the development of a remote monitoring system that can be used to accurately monitor and measure the relative humidity and temperature inside sealed boxes for the study of seed biology. The system allows the remote and real-time monitoring of these two parameters in five boxes with different conditions. It functions as a client that is connected to the internet using Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) technology while Google spreadsheet is used as the server for uploading and plotting the data. This system directly gets connected to the Google sever through Wi-Fi and uploads the sensors' values in a Google spread sheet. Application-specific software is created and the user can monitor the data in real time and/or download the data into Excel for further analyses. Using Google drive app the data can be viewed using a smart phone or a tablet. Furthermore, an electronic mail (e-mail) alert is also integrated into the system. Whenever measured values go beyond the threshold values, the user will receive an e-mail alert. en_US
dc.description.degree M.S. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/handle/mtsu/3549
dc.publisher Middle Tennessee State University en_US
dc.subject.umi Engineering en_US
dc.thesis.degreegrantor Middle Tennessee State University en_US
dc.thesis.degreelevel Masters en_US
dc.title REMOTE HUMIDITY AND TEMPERATURE REAL TIME MONITORING SYSTEM FOR STUDYING SEED BIOLOGY en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US
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