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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.

Temperature and humidity charts with location of Sensor T1

Sensor T1 real-time readings: temperature and humidity graphs with sensor map marker

Dashboard with sensor status, critical alarm, and map location of sensors

ThingsBoard dashboard showing real-time sensor metrics, alarm status, and their geographic positions on the map

Sensor configuration panel with thresholds and map location in ThingsBoard

Editing Sensor T1: setting temperature and humidity thresholds and viewing sensor location on the map

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How it works

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.

IoT solution architecture: devices connect via protocols and gateways to ThingsBoard for alarms, dashboards, notifications, and data lakes IoT solution architecture: devices connect via protocols and gateways to ThingsBoard for alarms, dashboards, notifications, and data lakes
IoT solution architecture: devices connect via protocols and gateways to ThingsBoard for processing, visualization, and automation
Interface insights

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

Environment monitoring state

Sensor C1 monitoring state

Sensor T1 monitoring state

Add or edit sensor

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Dashboard provides real-time monitoring of sensor data with interactive charts displaying metrics like temperature and humidity. The interface allows configuring alarm thresholds and sensor locations while showing active alarms with severity levels. You can analyze historical data and manage device settings.

Dashboard with sensor status, critical alarm, and map location of sensors

Track real-time temperature and humidity readings from Sensor C1 along with historical data from the past hour. Compare key metrics (min/max/average values) to maintain optimal environment conditions.

Temperature and humidity charts with location of Sensor C1

Track real-time temperature and humidity readings from Sensor T1 along with historical data from the past hour. Compare key metrics (min/max/average values) to maintain optimal environment conditions.

Temperature and humidity charts with location of Sensor T1

You can configure Sensor's critical thresholds including high temperature and low humidity alarms. Precise geolocation can be modified via latitude/longitude coordinates. All changes remain pending until confirmed with the Save button. The Cancel option reverts any unsaved modifications to previous settings.

Sensor configuration panel with thresholds and map location in ThingsBoard

Environment monitoring state

Dashboard provides real-time monitoring of sensor data with interactive charts displaying metrics like temperature and humidity. The interface allows configuring alarm thresholds and sensor locations while showing active alarms with severity levels. You can analyze historical data and manage device settings.

Dashboard with sensor status, critical alarm, and map location of sensors

Sensor C1 monitoring state

Track real-time temperature and humidity readings from Sensor C1 along with historical data from the past hour. Compare key metrics (min/max/average values) to maintain optimal environment conditions.

Temperature and humidity charts with location of Sensor C1

Sensor T1 monitoring state

Track real-time temperature and humidity readings from Sensor T1 along with historical data from the past hour. Compare key metrics (min/max/average values) to maintain optimal environment conditions.

Temperature and humidity charts with location of Sensor T1

Add or edit sensor

You can configure Sensor's critical thresholds including high temperature and low humidity alarms. Precise geolocation can be modified via latitude/longitude coordinates. All changes remain pending until confirmed with the Save button. The Cancel option reverts any unsaved modifications to previous settings.

Sensor configuration panel with thresholds and map location in ThingsBoard
Versatile implementation

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 environmental policy, alert residents, improve urban living conditions.

Agricultural and greenhouse facilities

Controlling environmental conditions in greenhouses and agricultural zones, scheduling 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.

Smart city Smart city
Laboratory Laboratory
Greenhouse Greenhouse
School School
Warehouse Warehouse

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 environmental data for scientific research, campus sustainability programs, and educational use in environmental studies.

Smart city Smart city

Smart cities and urban infrastructure

Monitoring air quality, noise levels, temperature, and humidity across city zones to support environmental policy, alert residents, improve urban living conditions.

Laboratory Laboratory

Healthcare and laboratory environments

Maintaining sterile conditions and proper ventilation by tracking air quality, CO₂ levels, and temperature in sensitive medical or laboratory zones.

Greenhouse Greenhouse

Agricultural and greenhouse facilities

Controlling environmental conditions in greenhouses and agricultural zones, scheduling based on occupancy, and ensuring sustainability targets are met.

School School

Educational and research institutions

Collecting long-term environmental data for scientific research, campus sustainability programs, and educational use in environmental studies.

Warehouse Warehouse

Warehouses and cold storage facilities

Monitoring temperature, humidity, and air circulation to ensure proper storage conditions for perishable goods and pharmaceutical products.

ThingsBoard advantages

Security

ThingsBoard has ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certifications and protects your data with industry-standard encryption algorithms. Secure communication is ensured via TLS (TCP) and DTLS (UDP). Role-based access control and audit logs further enhance platform security.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Scalability

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.

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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.

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LoRaWAN & SigFox

Connect LoRaWAN devices via integrations with standard network servers like TTN, LORIOT, ChirpStack, Actility, etc. Connect SigFox devices via integrations with the SigFox backend.

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Summary of environment monitoring solution

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.

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