{"id":944,"date":"2012-06-04T23:33:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T04:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/?p=944"},"modified":"2012-06-05T09:51:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T14:51:40","slug":"solar-hot-water-temperature-monitoring-with-arduino-thingspeak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2012\/06\/04\/solar-hot-water-temperature-monitoring-with-arduino-thingspeak\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Hot Water Temperature Monitoring with Arduino + ThingSpeak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another &#8220;Klink Family Adventure&#8221;. The Klink&#8217;s created a solar water heater monitor using an Arduino connected to multiple\u00a0waterproof DS18B20 temperature sensors. What&#8217;s great about this project is that it has the complete schematic and source code for\u00a0interfacing\u00a0multiple sensors to ThingSpeak at the same time. This is a common request in the ThingSpeak forum, so we are glad to see the code in the wild. The application is great. Monitoring the yield of a solar water heating system allows you to keep track of\u00a0efficiency\u00a0and savings.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the temperature looks like now in\u00a0Australia:<\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript'>  \nwindow.onload = document.write(\"<iframe width='600' height='240' marginwidth='0' marginheight='0' scrolling='auto' frameborder='0'  src='https:\/\/thingspeak.com\/channels\/909\/charts\/1?height=240&amp;width=600&amp;title=Solar%20Hot%20Water%20Temperature&amp;median=60' ><\/iframe> \"); \n <\/script><\/p>\n<p>Check out the family&#8217;s blog for the <a title=\"Arduino and ThingSpeak Sketch to post multiple sensors to the internet\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/aussiepilot\/Two%2018b20%20upload%20to%20thingspeak.txt?attredirects=0&amp;d=1\" target=\"_blank\">source code<\/a> and to learn how to create your own solar water heater monitoring system.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a title=\"Solar Water Heater Monitoring with Arduino and ThingSpeak\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Klink Family\u00a0Adventures<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another &#8220;Klink Family Adventure&#8221;. The Klink&#8217;s created a solar water heater monitor using an Arduino connected to multiple\u00a0waterproof DS18B20 temperature sensors&#8230;. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2012\/06\/04\/solar-hot-water-temperature-monitoring-with-arduino-thingspeak\/\">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":[14,8,154,7,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944"}],"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=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}