Design of an Affordable IoT-Based Monitoring System for Versatile Application in Machine Tool

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is becoming popular in almost every field of industry. It can send the data through wired or wireless connections and integrate data acquisition, communication, processing, and visualizing on a real-time network. The real-time capability of it can be considered as the main idea for designing an online monitoring system. This article mainly aims to provide the design process of the IoT system using some open-source platforms such as Arduino microcontroller, backup-and-sync-from-google desktop application, Firebase API, C# programming language, WhatsApp API, and MIT App inventor. All of these are integrated to become an affordable IoT-based monitoring system. This system can provide a monitoring system that can show data in two different end-user devices. Some features that this system can provide are visualizing, processing, and analyzing the data. Furthermore, this IoT-based monitoring system will be applied in the machine tool application as a versatile system.