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Classroom comfort plays a significant role in influencing students’ concentration and overall learning performance. Classroom comfort is driven by the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), which primarily include thermal, visual, and acoustic conditions that directly impact student focus and performance. These key environmental factors must be maintained at optimal levels to ensure for an effective learning environment. Findings from several researches have indicated that classroom comfort can be significantly affected by low thermal comfort, poor lighting, and high noise pollution. Studies have suggested that optimal comfort requires a combination of 22°C to 24°C of surrounding temperature; 40% to 60% of relative humidity; adequate lighting through a mix of natural daylight and artificial light for visual comfort; and acoustic control for minimal background noise. The monitoring of these factors is therefore crucial to ensure high-quality and productive learning environments are in place. However, most classrooms are lacking of an integrated system for a continuous monitoring of these conditions causing the possible unnoticed discomfort among the learners. Hence, how would these factors be continuously monitored has led to the innovation of an Arduino-based classroom comfort monitoring system that helps to monitor environmental parameters in real time; helping to improve classroom conditions and support better learning experiences. This system is designed to measure temperature and humidity for thermal comfort; to detect light intensity in ensuring adequate brightness; and to monitor sound levels in adjusting acoustic conditions effectively. In monitoring the IEQ, sensors are integrated with the Arduino in order to transmit data to the system. The Arduino is programmed in order to read and process the data received from each sensor. Specific threshold values are set to determine whether the classroom environment is comfortable or otherwise. This integrated monitoring system uses an LCD display to clearly display the comfort level for each factor. If any of the readings exceeds the threshold set, the active buzzer will beep and a Telegram notification will be sent to user; indicating the need for that particular factor to be adjusted in meeting the threshold set. This user-friendly and easy to use system will help to increase awareness of classroom environmental conditions among teachers and school administrators through a real-time monitoring system. It helps them to determine the optimum level of classroom comfort which will ultimately lead to improved students’ focus and learning performance.