{"id":1460,"date":"2015-08-07T12:32:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T16:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2015-08-07T12:35:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T16:35:49","slug":"collecting-dust-levels-with-thingspeak-and-esp8266-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2015\/08\/07\/collecting-dust-levels-with-thingspeak-and-esp8266-wi-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"Collecting Dust Levels with ThingSpeak and ESP8266 Wi-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using the ESP8266 Wi-Fi module, [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowandy.net\/2015\/06\/arduino-dust-sensor-with-esp8266.htm\" target=\"_blank\">shadowandy<\/a>] built a dust sensor to measure dust levels in his house. The project incorporates the\u00a0Shinyei PPD42NS dust sensor to do the measurements and posts the data to his <a href=\"https:\/\/thingspeak.com\" target=\"_blank\">ThingSpeak<\/a> channel from data collection and reaction to dust levels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/depot\/Grove-Dust-Sensor-p-1050.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1461\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/15\/files\/2015\/08\/dust_sensor.jpg\" alt=\"Dust Sensor sending data to ThingSpeak\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sensor records the\u00a0PM10 and PM2.5 dust levels to get an accurate indication of the dust in the air. This project is a great example of how a little sensor\u00a0could turn into something important for protecting machine shops, construction sites, and garages.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowandy.net\/2015\/06\/arduino-dust-sensor-with-esp8266.htm\" target=\"_blank\">shadowandy<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/shadowandy\/Arduino-Dust-Sensor\" target=\"_blank\">GitHub<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"overview-image\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/15\/files\/2015\/08\/dust_sensor.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Using the ESP8266 Wi-Fi module, [shadowandy] built a dust sensor to measure dust levels in his house. The project incorporates the\u00a0Shinyei PPD42NS dust sensor to do the measurements and posts the&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2015\/08\/07\/collecting-dust-levels-with-thingspeak-and-esp8266-wi-fi\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[14,208,189,49,60,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}