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SmartCage: Introduction and plan (Blog #1)

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Introduction

 

In this design challenge I will build a system that will track small rodents activity and their environmental conditions. The system will use AWS and make the captured sensor data available (probably through a dashboard) to the pet owners almost in real-time.

 

 

The plan

 

The project will require the integration of 2 components: The AWS component and the PSOC6 component. Since I'm not familiar with any of the two technologies, but I have experience writing firmware, I have a much clearer image on what I can do with the PSOC6 than with AWS. Eventually as I learn more about AWS I'll get a better picture on how I will use it to make the sensor data available to pet owners.

 

So, what could I track?

 

Environmental data such as:

  • Temperature
  • Atmospheric pressure
  • Relative humidity
  • Light
  • Noise

 

Animal data such as:

  • Vocalization behavior
  • Sleeping behavior
  • Drinking/eating behavior
  • Wheel exercise

 

My main objective won't be to track all that, but to build a tracking platform that could later implement additional sensors and tracking features. In other words I will focus more on building a framework than on any specific sensing capability. Ideally the framework should be easy to later adapt it to other environments, such as an aquarium, if needed. During the development of the project I'll define what exactly I will track, but I'll likely begin with only a few, simple and easy to use sensors.

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  • Sounds interesting. Taking on two (great?) unknowns such as AWS and PSoC6 is a big challenge, I hope you do well with all this. I am looking forward to seeing the AWS work you do. I have used PSoC devices before and I am not a fan - too complicated for me, I need simple things like Arduino.

     

    Dubbie

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  • Sounds interesting. Taking on two (great?) unknowns such as AWS and PSoC6 is a big challenge, I hope you do well with all this. I am looking forward to seeing the AWS work you do. I have used PSoC devices before and I am not a fan - too complicated for me, I need simple things like Arduino.

     

    Dubbie

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