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 Smart Office solution includes a sample dashboard designed for clear visualization of key metrics. It displays energy and water consumption, air quality, temperature, humidity, and HVAC system status. Alarms are also shown to enable prompt response to abnormal conditions. While the provided dashboard is relatively simple, ThingsBoard allows users to create much more complex and customized dashboards based on their specific Smart Office requirements.
Applications of environment monitoring solution
A similar IoT-based monitoring and management solution, like Smart Assisted Living, can be adapted and applied in various fields and directions. Here are some of them:
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
tMonitoring 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.
