A REAL-TIME SYSTEM FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY BASED ON CLOUD COMPUTING Prathibha K*, Pawan Hegde** Department of Computer Science and Engineering NMAM Institute of technology Udupi, India *prathibha.kae@gmail.com ** pwnhegde@nitte.edu.in Abstract— Following the ecological parameters variation is important keeping in mind the end goal to decide on the nature of our environment. This paper aims at detecting and detailing the changes in the environmental parameters. Environmental monitoring applications based on cloud computing makes use of sensors to help in protecting environmental conditions by checking parameters like temperature, air quality, earthquake and so on. The utilization of present day advances such as the single-board computers can encourage and give much more functionalities to cloud. The significant areas that cover the above said applications are home, industries, buildings and so forth. This is the way toward observing some of the modules of environment and thus providing the features to the admins and clients. It causes the specialists to screen the states of the work in an organization or industry from remote areas and to take prompt measures. Keywords— Environmental monitoring; Cloud computing; Sensors; Raspberry pi; I. INTRODUCTION With advancement in computing technology, Cloud computing has developed as a new technique for computing strategy expanded from parallel computing, and Grid computing. Cloud models empower business needs, for example, on request, pay as required and computing. The main aim of cloud computing is to provide different services to the clients or end-users by increasing the scope and potential of end devices by giving an easy access to services. It is a model that enables a convenient retrieval of resources including server, application and network services required for the computation as well as easy storage of data anytime and anywhere. Therefore cloud computing turns to be scalable as all the services are provided based on the end-user’s requirement where he could decide on it without any investments or prior huge payments. As there is an increase in data produced from different sources, storing these large files turn to be confusion to the organisations or the users while cloud computing comes up as an answer to all these issues making it more widespread with increasing demands from in and around the world. Monitoring the activities identify changes in the surrounding and can be utilized for different reasons. To bring up new propelled assistance for shrewd situations, data accumulated amid the monitoring should be stored, prepared and connected to various snippets of data that describe or characterize the environment itself. There is a predominant role of independent measuring systems to screen all the basic parameters which are required for making an ideal condition. Environmental monitoring systems too have shown a rapid growth that has been applied into several different fields since it is very important to monitor and analyse the conditions based on the type of environment and the parameters respectively. The absence of such monitoring systems has been making the role of government more crucial as the policy makers. Decision making on the conditions with reference to industries, current weather state or even residential issues too. In a developing nation, there would be widespread business industries, vast area of agriculture and even large residential area. In such situations, there is a chance that a normal monitoring system could fail in studying objects or parameters in a large number and eventually process slower, increasing the amount of time consumed to monitor the parameters. This can also make a delay in proper storage of the data related to the on-going process or the outcomes required for the analysis of the atmosphere with respect to the nature, industries or residential area. Therefore the concept of cloud computing is applied into environmental monitoring with an aid of sensors. Environmental monitoring applications in view of cloud computing normally utilize sensors to help in ecological security by observing parameters like Temperature, IEEE - 43488 9th ICCCNT 2018 July 10-12, 2018, IISC, Bengaluru Bengaluru, India