Environment monitoring
Environment monitoring plays a vital role in ensuring safety, comfort, and operational efficiency across all types of facilities — from office buildings to industrial sites. ThingsBoard is perfectly suited to address these challenges.
ThingsBoard provides a scalable, reliable, and secure platform for environment monitoring. With built-in support for LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, and Sigfox, it enables efficient integration of numerous low-power sensors over long distances, minimizing infrastructure complexity. The platform supports standard IoT protocols like HTTP, MQTT, CoAP, and LwM2M, making it easy to connect a wide range of devices and scale with your project.
Automated features—from real-time alerts on critical changes to forwarding data into external analytics tools—ensure proactive monitoring. Intuitive dashboards, customizable logic, and seamless integrations turn raw environmental data into actionable insights, enabling smarter and faster decisions.
Solution structure of environment monitoring
Sensor data is transmitted to ThingsBoard using IoT protocols like HTTP, MQTT, CoAP, and LwM2M, or via integrations with LoRaWAN servers and other platforms.
The built-in stream processing engine instantly analyzes incoming messages, triggers events, generates alarms, and routes data to monitoring dashboards. The collected data is visualized through intuitive dashboards, giving users clear insights into alarms, and performance metrics — all in real time, from a single interface.
Environment monitoring dashboard structure
The dashboard has several states. The main state displays the list of the sensors, their location on the map as well as the list of their alarms. You may drill down to the sensor details state by clicking on the table row. The sensor details state allows to browse temperature and humidity history, change sensor settings and location. The live dashboard is part of the solution template
Applications of environment monitoring solution
An IoT-powered environmental monitoring system can be deployed across various sectors to ensure safety, compliance, and sustainability. Below are key areas where such solutions bring significant value.
Smart cities and urban infrastructure
Monitoring air quality, noise levels, temperature, and humidity across city zones to support Environment policy, alert residents, improve urban living conditions.
Agricultural and greenhouse facilities
Controlling power consumption in classrooms, labs, and dormitories, scheduling energy use based on occupancy, and ensuring sustainability targets are met.
Warehouses and cold storage facilities
Monitoring temperature, humidity, and air circulation to ensure proper storage conditions for perishable goods and pharmaceutical products.
Healthcare and laboratory environments
Maintaining sterile conditions and proper ventilation by tracking air quality, CO₂ levels, and temperature in sensitive medical or laboratory zones.
Educational and research institutions
Collecting long-term Environment data for scientific research, campus sustainability programs, and educational use in Environment studies.
Smart cities and urban infrastructure
Monitoring air quality, noise levels, temperature, and humidity across city zones to support Environment policy, alert residents, improve urban living conditions.
Healthcare and laboratory environments
Maintaining sterile conditions and proper ventilation by tracking air quality, CO₂ levels, and temperature in sensitive medical or laboratory zones.
Agricultural and greenhouse facilities
Controlling power consumption in classrooms, labs, and dormitories, scheduling energy use based on occupancy, and ensuring sustainability targets are met.
Educational and research institutions
Collecting long-term Environment data for scientific research, campus sustainability programs, and educational use in Environment studies.
Warehouses and cold storage facilities
Monitoring temperature, humidity, and air circulation to ensure proper storage conditions for perishable goods and pharmaceutical products.
Summary of environment monitoring
The following interactive dashboard represents an environment monitoring component that you may easily embed into your IoT solution. This particular dashboard allows users to monitor temperature and humidity sensors. You may quickly adapt it to air quality or other sensors and add remote control scenarios.
ThingsBoard advantages
Security
ThingsBoard protects your data with industry-standard encryption algorithms like RSA and ECDSA. Secure communication is ensured via TLS (TCP) and DTLS (UDP). Role-based access control and audit logs further enhance platform security.
Data visualization
Visualize data with interactive, multi-state dashboards—no coding needed. Use built-in charts, gauges, maps, tables, and control widgets. Customize every detail via advanced settings or custom widget bundles. Real-time, low-latency updates supported via embedded web-sockets.
Connectivity
Connect devices directly to the platform via the following built-in protocols: HTTP, CoAP, MQTT, LwM2M, and SNMP. Connect devices in your local network to the cloud using ThingsBoard Gateway via Modbus, BLE, BACnet, OPC-UA, and other protocols.
Data processing
ThingsBoard allows you to define app logic using a drag-and-drop rule chain designer. Its scalable Rule Engine uses message queues like Kafka or AWS SQS for durable, reliable data processing. You can handle data within the engine or forward it to external systems.
Scalability and high availability
ThingsBoard supports high-availability cloud and on-prem deployments via Kubernetes or bare-metal. Its components scale horizontally and handle 18K+ vehicles and 5K+ devices in prod.
Multi-tenancy
ThingsBoard provides UI and API to manage tenants, customers, users, devices, and assets. Single tenant may have multiple tenant administrators and millions of devices and customers. It also offers out-of-the-box support of OTA updates for your smart meters.
