HIP

Projects

• Lilly Library TV Mount
• Building monitoring
• HIP:LittleFe Touchscreen qt Interface (LittleFe)
• HIP:LittleFe Touchscreen Display (LittleFe)
• HIP:Outback Serial Interface
• Miller Farm Wind Project
• HIP:PMP
• HIP:Temperature Sensors
• TS7400
• HIP::Keck
• YSI 600R Sonde Unit
• YSI 650 Multiparameter Display System
• Display Wall
• PCI-AI12-16
• TS-7000 Series (TS-Linux)
• eTrex GPS
• Differential GPS
• TS-GSM1 cell modem
• RTPB3-12 Temperature Probe
• PosterSession

Documentation for Portable Units

• SONDES AND 650
  
• YSI 600R sonde unit
  
• DIFFERENTIAL GPS
  
• INVENTORY
  
• For zoey, see inventory for list of items in the kit
• Also see inventory for TIC and see manuals for directions on how to use it

Fall 2012

Projects:

Lilly Library TV Mount
Building monitoring

• eDisplay v2
  • Use source control
  • Fix recent introduced crashing
  • Split, total and all other buildings in to 2 separate charts - one above other (Since we have a larger screen now)

• Data normalization

• Merge CS Wikis
  • Done. All information from cluster wiki and wiki.cs.earlham.edu is now on wiki.cs.earlham.edu.
• Energy Wars 2012 Prep.

Notes from the 2 February 2012 meeting:

• Blower door training was done for 3 groups, nice work gang.
  • Darken the axis labels on the energy display (Gustavo, Tristan)
  • Develop a small weather display, integrate into energy display, send to Content folks (Gustavo, Tristan)
  • Prepare for electrical consumption data from multiple buildings (Gustavo, Tristan)
  • Re-consider the locations and types of screens to use for the eDisplays, next lunch meeting (All)
    • Screen savers on all the ECS lab machines (Ben to speak with Tom Steffes)
    • Lilly Library
    • Earlham Hall
    • Carpenter
    • Runyon
    • Consider iPads for Admissions and the President's office lounge area
    • For larger units consider an automagic rotating display rather than a remote control
  • Degree day calculations based on Dick Smith's email (Corey)
  • Weather data to Postgres (Ivan, Sotheary
  • Solar array power production to Postgres (Tristan, Sotheary)
  • SEPAM addressing (Ivan, Mikel, Ben)
  • Button-up solar array wiring (Ben, Alex)
  • Weather station installation fixup (Ivan, Sotheary, Corey)

Spring 2012

Projects

• Weather Station
• Building monitoring
• Solar cleanup
• Raise wind turbine
• plug in Edisplay to solar inverter
• solar / wind power production into database

To Do Fall 2011

• Fix network port for DELL (CP) - Sunday
• Move weather data to postgress (IB) - Working on transfer script and writing directly to postgres, filter bogus data in a view
• Finish wiring on solar (TW, BS) - Waiting on wall clips, Ben to send Charlie the size
• Finish EDisplay (S, G) - Checking comment script, add weather, add more buildings when data is available
• Mount EDisplays (ALL) - Networking on Sunday
• Figure out best high visibility project (ALL) - Ben working on boiler spec and setting-up a Friday lunch meeting with Portland company.
• Figure out SEPAM addressing (BS, CP) - Maintenance is hiring a Scheinder Electric person who will do this while on-campus
• Engineer individual building monitors (BS) - Considering a Square D unit since we work with a lot of that gear already.
• Information sign (TW, IB)
• Degree day calculations (Corey)
• Occupancy normalization - (All) Consider number of person hours per building per day.

Spring 2011

5 February Telecon

• Touchscreen display
• GVStreamer setup
• PM8 monitoring
• Clean forth floor (Dennis and London ;))

To Do Summer 2010

• There is also a shared Google Doc (umm-Active?) that has this
  • GPS + Proto? (maybe not) + stewie
  • Portable kits
  • Solar panel power production to database via infobomb
  • Infobomb
  • Weather
  • Wind Generation

QUESTIONS

• What's happening with the weather station-can we visualize

• What can we do with the GPS on top of Dennis

• Whom are we supposed to talk to about the portable kits

• how, and where can I find documentation for the GPS?
• Can we get a windows OS for Zoey?

To Do Start of Semester 2010

• • install Weather Display for Linux Console (no X Windows) on proto
  • Do documantation for the packages and find the TIC (Ben Johnson and Gab in Physics)
  • Fiddle with sondes and infobomb and see if you can get something out of it.
  • Find source code for consolewd
  • ask DPalin to if he can send a copy of his config.txt, and if he has the source code.
  • Do the documetation.

To Do October 2009

• List of things to talk about
  • wind
  • weather station
  • water sonds
  • Denis wind
• List of things to do
  • dinner at miller farm on Sunday night
  • move wind gen to miller farm on sunday
  • move weather station
  • debug Django(Charlie)

May 11, 2009

• Created Project Page for Summer 2009

To Do Winter 2009

• Work on the water monitoring devices
• Work on the weather
• Work on wind

Questions

• should we wash the sonds?
• Do we have some of the sond "condoms"?
• Are we going to have Zoey monitoring

the weather or we we are gonna find another machine, or we are going to work on trying to find a linux compatible software??

• • What is happening with the packages we prepared last summer??

Green Science Projects

• eDisplay
• Blower door test
• Keck unit
• Solar Hot water
• solar / wind power production into eDisplay

January 19, 2009

• Our meeting time is on every Friday from 12:10 to 1 pm (with lunch).
• Projects working on:
  • traffic cam
  • water monitoring
  • short term weather forecasting (potentially)

March 6, 2006

Alan, Colin, Tom, Maduna, Tom, Bryan, Jeff, Charlie

• Alex did the mojo and we now have DBI/DBD on the pmp. Next is finish transactions and cleanup code.
• Jeff emailed ARM about the watchdog timer, no word yet. Charlie will look at the BIOS setting.
• Colin will look into how to do damping of the direction and speed readimg.
• Colin will fix the graphs including the date ranges.
• Breadboard Wed at 1p
• Rainguage is working and recording data, congrats Tom and Maduna. Mounting, reseting discipline and technique, and display elements are all that's left.
• Windchill calculation, both the Davis interface firmware upgrade and the new formula. Bryan.
• X10 systems. Tom waded into this and found some stuff. Heyu. Alan will get a serial controller.
• Use WECI tower for annenometer mountings.
• GPS.

February 13, 2006

Alan, Jeff, Bryan, Colin, Maduna, Tom, Alex, Charlie

• C to read raw value, Perl (called from cron) to buffer to file and send to server every N times, server inserts into database and returns ACK to Perl.
• Use TV antenna for the tower.
• Check the TS-5600 library.
• Watchdog timer (Jeff)
• Rain gauge (Tom, Maduna)
• GPS (Alex, Jeff), solar radiation (Colin, Maduna)
• Alan's applications - 1) small machine that does temp and displays via http and send X10 commands out the serial interface with X10 switches and dial-up and ethernet interfaces. 2) robot to go in a house under remote control, B/W (or color) video, up stairs, 30 minute, budget of about $2000.

February 6, 2006

Tom, Colin, Alex, Maduna, Jeff, Bryan, Alan, Charlie

• Do we have a calibration/accuracy problem WRT wind direction? Rest of the stuff listed below (Colin, Alex, Bryan)
• GPS (Alex and Jeff)
• Watchdog timer (Jeff)
• Rain gauge, try plugging into the interface and testing (Maduna, Tom)

January 30, 2006

Colin, Alex, Tom, Jeff, Bryan, Maduna, Alan, Charlie

• Laid-out the architecture of the quark-pmp-wind components and the interfaces.
• Look at the TS-5600 library interface for reading ports rather than /dev/...
• Put together a circuit based on a voltage regulator supplied by the board power port.

Organization Meeting - January 11, 2006

Alex, Bryan, Colin, Tom, Maduna, Jeff, Charlie

• Regular meetings this semester will be on Monday at 12p in the Dennis 4th lab.
• Wind speed and direction - data aquisition/data transfer/packaging/deployment (Colin, Jeff, Alex, Bryan)
• GPS - data aquisition/data transfer/packaging/deployment/ntpd/clients (Alex, Jeff)
• Rain gauge - data aquistion/data transfer/visualization (Tom, Maduna)
• Solar radiation - data aquistion/data transfer (Colin, Maduna)

To Do February 2006

• Fix wind chill calculation, use new formula
• Figure-out watchdog timer on PMP
• Backup on PMP - just needs to be put in cron (Tom)
• Wind data for this area (Mary)
• Problems with direction - determine input voltage and calibrate to that (Alex and Colin)
  • Stable voltage needed, e.g. when WiFi card is removed voltage fluctuates. Measure at start and end, if equal than ok.
• Porting wind speed and direction software and setup to pmp, made some progress (Mary, Alex, Colin)
  • Speed working now, using sigalarm(), need a resistor? DIO for power.
  • Direction isn't working yet.
  • Next week on roof?
  • Two weeks in field?
• Sleep and wake on pmp1 with watchdog timer (Mary)
• Weather Cam is working again, cluster camera to be setup in D209.
• RP&L Weather data, contact Gus Duke. Indiana American Water has a link which she sent. (Mary, Charlie)
• Rain guage, Mary has worked on it but it's not working. (Mary, Charlie)
• Solar radiation sensor, continues to make progress, conversion and data comparison (Colin)
  • How to set angle/calibration.
• GPS setup with time server (Tom)

Useful Support Documents from Davis Instruments:

• http://www.davisnet.com/support/weather/support_docs.asp?dtype=2

Other local data that can easily be harvested: Farmland

• http://shadow.agry.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/map_patrol/images/cd_zen.map?162,104

Hardware:

• PMP
  • Technologic Systems TS56000 single board computer running Linux off a SANDisk.
  • URL for the board and documentation
  • To Do
    • Port threaded anemometer code, change code to use local analog/digital inputs
    • Setup NFS mounting of / on the pmp from proto
    • Test analog and digital inputs
    • Setup and test WiFi interface
    • Test and document backup and recovery procedure
    • Identify and recover missing files from SANDisk
    • Design and implement data collection, sleep, and data transfer functions

• Anemometer
  • The Wind direction sends an analogue number.
  • The wind speed is the number of pulses per 2.25 second interval. The number of pulses is the windspeed in MPH.

• We are using a Digi PortServer TS 2, SN=V40611264
  • URL of the documentation

• Rain guage:
  • Sends a pulse every time the cup switches.