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*[[HIP:Traffic Cam]]
 
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'''Documentation for Portable Units'''<br>
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'''Documentation'''<br>
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"For Portable Units" <br>
 
*[http://wiki.cs.earlham.edu/index.php/HIP:YSI-650MDS SONDES AND 650] <br>
 
*[http://wiki.cs.earlham.edu/index.php/HIP:YSI-650MDS SONDES AND 650] <br>
 
*[http://wiki.cs.earlham.edu/index.php/HIP:YSI-600R  YSI 600R sonde unit] <br>
 
*[http://wiki.cs.earlham.edu/index.php/HIP:YSI-600R  YSI 600R sonde unit] <br>
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*For zoey, see inventory for list of items in the kit
 
*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
 
*Also see inventory for TIC and see manuals for directions on how to use it
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"Davis Instruments"
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* http://www.davisnet.com/support/weather/support_docs.asp?dtype=2
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==Fall 2012==
 
==Fall 2012==
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[[Spring 2010]] <br>
 
[[Spring 2010]] <br>
 
[[October 2009]] <br>
 
[[October 2009]] <br>
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[[May 2009]] <br>
 
 
[[Winter 2009]] <br>
 
[[Winter 2009]] <br>
 
[[2006]] <br>
 
[[2006]] <br>
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==May 11, 2009==
 
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*Created [[HIP:summer2009| Project Page for Summer 2009]]
 
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== To Do Winter 2009 ==
 
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*Work on the water monitoring  devices
 
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*Work on the weather
 
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*Work on wind
 
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'''Questions'''
 
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*should we wash the sonds?
 
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*Do we have some of the sond "condoms"?
 
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*Are we going to have Zoey monitoring
 
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the weather or we we are gonna find another
 
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machine, or we are going to work on trying
 
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to find a linux compatible
 
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software??
 
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**What is happening with the packages we prepared last summer??
 
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Green Science Projects
 
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*eDisplay
 
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*Blower door test
 
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*Keck unit
 
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*Solar Hot water
 
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*solar / wind power production into eDisplay
 
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==January 19, 2009==
 
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*Our meeting time is on every Friday from 12:10 to 1 pm (with lunch).
 
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*Projects working on:
 
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**[http://wiki.cs.earlham.edu/index.php/TrafficCam traffic cam]
 
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**water monitoring
 
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**short term weather forecasting (potentially)
 
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==March 6, 2006==
 
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Alan, Colin, Tom, Maduna, Tom, Bryan, Jeff, Charlie
 
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* Alex did the mojo and we now have DBI/DBD on the pmp.  Next is finish transactions and cleanup code. 
 
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* Jeff emailed ARM about the watchdog timer, no word yet.  Charlie will look at the BIOS setting. 
 
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* Colin will look into how to do damping of the direction and speed readimg.
 
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* Colin will fix the graphs including the date ranges.
 
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* Breadboard Wed at 1p
 
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* Rainguage is working and recording data, congrats Tom and Maduna.  Mounting, reseting discipline and technique, and display elements are all that's left.
 
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* Windchill calculation, both the Davis interface firmware upgrade and the new formula.  Bryan.
 
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* X10 systems.  Tom waded into this and found some stuff.  Heyu.  Alan will get a serial controller.
 
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* Use WECI tower for annenometer mountings.
 
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* GPS.
 
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==February 13, 2006==
 
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Alan, Jeff, Bryan, Colin, Maduna, Tom, Alex, Charlie
 
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* 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.
 
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* Use TV antenna for the tower.
 
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* Check the TS-5600 library.
 
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* Watchdog timer (Jeff)
 
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* Rain gauge (Tom, Maduna)
 
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* GPS (Alex, Jeff), solar radiation (Colin, Maduna)
 
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* 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.
 
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==February 6, 2006==
 
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Tom, Colin, Alex, Maduna, Jeff, Bryan, Alan, Charlie
 
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* Do we have a calibration/accuracy problem WRT wind direction? Rest of the stuff listed below  (Colin, Alex, Bryan)
 
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* GPS (Alex and Jeff)
 
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* Watchdog timer (Jeff)
 
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* Rain gauge, try plugging into the interface and testing (Maduna, Tom)
 
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==January 30, 2006==
 
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Colin, Alex, Tom, Jeff, Bryan, Maduna, Alan, Charlie
 
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*Laid-out the architecture of the quark-pmp-wind components and the interfaces. 
 
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*Look at the TS-5600 library interface for reading ports rather than /dev/...
 
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*Put together a circuit based on a voltage regulator supplied by the board power port.
 
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==Organization Meeting - January 11, 2006==
 
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Alex, Bryan, Colin, Tom, Maduna, Jeff, Charlie
 
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* Regular meetings this semester will be on Monday at 12p in the Dennis 4th lab.
 
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* Wind speed and direction - data aquisition/data transfer/packaging/deployment (Colin, Jeff, Alex, Bryan)
 
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* GPS - data aquisition/data transfer/packaging/deployment/ntpd/clients (Alex, Jeff)
 
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* Rain gauge - data aquistion/data transfer/visualization (Tom, Maduna)
 
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* Solar radiation - data aquistion/data transfer (Colin, Maduna)
 
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==To Do February 2006 ==
 
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* Fix wind chill calculation, use new formula
 
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* Figure-out watchdog timer on PMP
 
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* Backup on PMP - just needs to be put in cron (Tom)
 
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* Wind data for this area (Mary)
 
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* Problems with direction - determine input voltage and calibrate to that (Alex and Colin)
 
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** Stable voltage needed, e.g. when WiFi card is removed voltage fluctuates.  Measure at start and end, if equal than ok. 
 
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* Porting wind speed and direction software and setup to pmp, made some progress (Mary, Alex, Colin)
 
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** Speed working now, using sigalarm(), need a resistor?  DIO for power.
 
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** Direction isn't working yet.
 
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** Next week on roof?
 
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** Two weeks in field?
 
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* Sleep and wake on pmp1 with watchdog timer (Mary)
 
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* Weather Cam is working again, cluster camera to be setup in D209.
 
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* RP&L Weather data, contact Gus Duke.  Indiana American Water has a link which she sent. (Mary, Charlie)
 
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* Rain guage, Mary has worked on it but it's not working.  (Mary, Charlie)
 
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* Solar radiation sensor, continues to make progress, conversion and data comparison (Colin)
 
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** How to set angle/calibration.
 
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* GPS setup with time server (Tom)
 
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Useful Support Documents from Davis Instruments:
 
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* http://www.davisnet.com/support/weather/support_docs.asp?dtype=2
 
  
 
Other local data that can easily be harvested:  Farmland
 
Other local data that can easily be harvested:  Farmland

Revision as of 15:39, 24 November 2012

Projects

Documentation
"For Portable Units"

"Davis Instruments"


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

Old Notes / To Do Lists

Fall 2011
Spring 2011
Summer 2010
Spring 2010
October 2009
Winter 2009
2006

Other local data that can easily be harvested: Farmland

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