Create a WiFi (IP) thermometer capable of reporting, monitoring, alerting the temperature of a re...

[G+_P Costello]

Create a WiFi (IP) thermometer capable of reporting, monitoring, alerting the temperature of a remote room, boat, basement etc. over the internet. A Rasberry Pi or Aduino , WiFi, and a thermocouple would be the basic hardware requirement I would think.

[G+_Joe Phelps]

I used to have an aquarium controller/sensors that would do this.

[G+_Tom Silk]

Adafruit recently posted a guide on how to do this. http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-cc3000-wifi-and-xively

[G+_P Costello]

Aquarium sensor, that's a terrific use.;

[G+_Vincent Tompkins]

Remember this isn't the naivete '90s anything you make public facing, reachable via the internet, could become someones beach head into your network. I'd be for restricting it to your private LAN instead.

[G+_P Costello]

Some password protecting may apply to protect access to the Pi perhaps.

[G+_Vincent Tompkins]

Having passwords is a nice first step but often the bad guys find ways around them. You need to harden the system with IDS and a firewall. Also remember to keep the system up to date with patches.

[G+_P Costello]

How harden need it be?

[G+_Vincent Tompkins]

Pretty much rock solid. I remember when I was going to school in '07 I had to set up a public facing project. Just for Ha-has I put a PC on it with Wireshark running. Mind you this was an IP that had not been used. I found it was being flooded by a lot of scans and hack attempts. I wish I saved the scan.

 

That's why some have 10K plus botnets with maybe 100 systems always scanning the entire IP range from 0.0.0.1 to 255.255.255.254. Many of them may be "illegal" addresses but you never know what can happen when someone misconfigures a system.

 

Maybe some day Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ may cover "Black holes".

[G+_P Costello]

Seems like an easy task for the job.

[G+_P Costello]

Interesting thought, it can monitor the temperature of freezers or refrigerators. A good SMS, e-mail, or audible alert would be welcomed should your food investment be in jeopardy due to equipment or power glitches.  Just don't rely exclusively on the same power source for the Pi that you due for your pie :-)

[G+_P Costello]

Just had a furnace problem! YES,  I did wish I had this temperature monitoring and alerting device.

[G+_P Costello]

Cold weather is approaching in North hemisphere (except maybe North West Califiornia). A Know How on remote IoT (Internet of Things)  temperature monitoring would be nice.