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Projects

Documentation for Portable Units

Fall 2012

Projects:

  • TV Mount for Lilly Library
    • Split, total and all other buildings in to 2 separate charts - one

above other (Since we have a larger screen now)

    • Make sure pen driver starts up as soon as machine is turned on
    • Make sure chromium starts automatically when machine is turned on
    • Make sure chromium goes to ful screen as soon as it is initiated
    • Set the home web page
    • Disable ubuntu updates (because the pup us updates allow people to get acces to machine and its programs). We want to make a kiosk out of this station (just as it is on the Dennis entrance)
    • Figure out if we can have 2 pens connected at the same time (left and right) (With the center mount of the holder is this is necessary?)
    • Figure out sensor motion and make sure its driver starts automatically as well.
  • eDisplay v2
    • Use source control
    • Fix recent introduced crashing
  • Data normalization
  • Merge CS Wikis
  • 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

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:

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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