Hi, I'm Carlo Russo and I'd like to introduce you to my third blog for the Design Challenge: Just Encase.We have already made the connection between the two Boards using the LoRaWAN protocol and in this blog we will consider the sensors to be...
Software DevelopmentOverview:The ask here is to develop firmware that communicates with the sensors over I2C, collects the data, feeds it into the edge AI model, and provides a classification of the state of the turbine rotor. The classification resu...
Blog #4 Sensor updates
I advanced a fair bit with the programming of my project. I changed the TFT screen display to show what is needed for the driver.
The accelerometer will register any sudden movements from the vehicle, indicating you to s...
Hardware Development
The blog here discusses the hardware development process for wind turbine monitoring projects. Please switch to blog #1 if you want to overview the project.The hardware development starts with the selection of suitable components...
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This weekend I went back to my original design and finally I was able to do some communication between the Arduino MKR 1300 WAN and the UNO.
Arduino Communication
UART / Serial
After several days attem...
Hi, I'm Carlo Russo and I would like to talk today about the Arduino MKR1300 boards and the LoRa protocol.The Just Encase kit is full of interesting components and I decided to start using the Arduino MKR1300.
I've been wanting to test LoRa ...
Introduction
Hi, my name s Carlo Russo and this is my first blog related to the Design Challenge Just Encase.
These are the components received:
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After having all my sensors wired and my Arduinos coded, it was finally time to test my drone-mounted particulate matter device! This first video shows the set up and all the sensors right before doing the test run.
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Following the tests from the previous blog for this project, in this blog, I run a full battery test. I start with full batteries and let the test run until they deplete where the sensors don't function properly. With these batteries, the test ran for 45 hours!
In a world where more than 800 million people continue suffering from chronic malnourishment and where the global population is expected to grow by another 2 billion to reach 9.6 billion people by 2050, it is important to meet the huge challenge of f...
Some weeks it seems every project just gets hit with every problem in the book, which tests one's mettle and plays havoc with all the schedules. This has been one of those weeks -- lots of work on lots of projects, but not as much progress as expecte...
This is not the last blog for this project, but it is perhaps the main blog because it showcases how well the Hammond box works to house the project. I had fun designing the interior chassis to hold all the subsystems in position.
What is in the box....
Up until now, I’ve explained the concept for my particulate matter device (Blog #1), shown the material procurement process and tested all the sensors (Blog #2), and shown the wiring and assembly for the device (Blog #3). But I haven’t ta...
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Today I'm presenting some design changes that I needed to do.
Why ?
Well, I've discovered recently that, in order for the Arduino MKR 1300 WAN to connect to the Arduino IoT Cloud, it needs to do it through a...
Welcome to Blog #3 of the Winter Driving Safety project
This update covers preparing the Hammond Manufacturing Enclosure Cases for protecting the project and what I have accomplished so far.
Hammond Manufacturing Enclosure Cases:
I thought to much i...
This blog covers the monitoring and data collection part of this project. In this blog, I go over the sensors I use in the sensor boxes, the design, and the code for the sensor boxes. Besides that, I cover the GCS (Ground Control Station), its design and software as well as the GUI (Graphical User Interface), that collects all of the data into a CSV file and also displays it live as it comes in the GUI.
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This blog post is just to vent some frustrations I'm having .
Data collecting
In the data collecting front, everything (almost) is set up and working. I just need to include the deep sleep functions to save batt...
Welcome to Blog #2 of Winter Driving Safety
I have been working on the GPS speedometer, carbon monoxide detector and the mini-weather station all at once. This wasn’t a good idea since I get sidetracked very easily and get nowhere. So, I starte...
Up until now I have procured and tested all my sensors (see blog #2), so the next step is to put it all together! The last thing I wanted was to wire all my sensors together then have a bunch of problems I would have to troubleshoot at the same time....
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One of the main goals of this project is to be able to monitor a remote location - hence the LoRa communication with a great range.
In that remote location, power may not always be available, or available at all. Th...
Interface Circuit Design
Power Management Circuit DescriptionThe power management circuit allows periperal power to be turned off when the peripherals are not being used.Q3 controls power to the temperature sensor and the capacitor voltage monitor wh...
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Last night was time to start working on the code to collect all the data and send it away to the remote Arduino MKR 1300 WAN via LoRa .
In my last post regarding the data collecting, everything is wired and working,...
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Today, we're going to discuss what values we're going to monitor, their safe values and meaning to us .
Saltwater swimming Pool
A swimming pool, whether fresh or salt water, has it's own ecosy...
Introduction
This is the first blog for the Just Encase Design Challenge. This blog describes my project proposal and gives an overall view of the project implementation.
I propose to design a landslide monitoring system for the Himalayan region. Eve...
