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IoT Based LDR Light control using MQTT

Updated: Jul 2, 2021



In this project, I will show you how to build a simple Light Activated Switch Circuit using LDR. Using this circuit, an electrical device or an appliance like a street light or a fan for example, can be controlled based on the intensity of the light near the circuit. In this to build an IoT system using an ESP8266, myDevices Cayenne, and MQTT. In more detail, this IoT tutorial discovers how to use an ESP8266 to send data to Cayenne using the MQTT protocol. Moreover, this ESP8266 MQTT project investigates how to use MQTT to control remote peripheral devices using a web interface. This is a complete step-by-step tutorial on building an IoT system using Cayenne and ESP.

On the other hand, Cayenne is an IoT cloud platform that provides several cloud services, such as:

  • Data visualization

  • IoT cloud

  • Alerts

  • Scheduling Events

We will focus our attention on data visualization and on the IoT cloud services.