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Blog#2 Design (Weather Remote Monitoring System)

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imageBLOG# 2- Design - Weather Remote Monitoring Systemimage

This blog will include the Design of my Idea. It will describe my design specifications for the implementation of my idea for a Weather Remote Monitoring System.  The design will include the components of the Bundle supplied for this challenge. The design will show how the components are used together to design a solution to implement my idea.

This blog is part of a blog series for the N-gaged Design Challenge. The sponsor of the challenge OMEGA, has supplied a Layer N Ecosystem Bundle that is used to implement my design.

Design Specification

  • The wireless gateway (GW-001-3),  will be located inside my home.
    • It will be connected to my home network.
    • It will be connected to the internet
    • Data will travel from the Gateway over the internet to the Layer-N Cloud.
      • Then the data will be displayed on a dashboard for visualization.
      • Alarms will also be setup for temp ranges.
    • The USB connector is used to connect to the Temp Smart Probe over the USB to Smart Probe Interface cable (SP-005-01)
      • The Female connector (M12) on the other end of SP-005-01 will be connected to a yet to be determined Thermocouple or RTD probe. To measure the environment around the gateway .
      • The M12 cable can also be connected to the SYNC software on the PC to configure and display Data.
  • The Wireless Sensor (SS-002-1) will be placed in one of the two enclosures and place remotely to monitor the environment .
    • The SS-002-01 is paired wirelessly to the Gateway.
    • Sensor data is sent from the device is sent to the gateway then to the N-Layer Cloud
    • The enclosures used are: 
      • 1554UGY  IP66 Water Resistant 
      • 1554H2GYCL IP68 Watertight Water submergible
    • The on-board sensors will be used to monitor the temp, Humidity, barometric pressure and the Light level of the remote environment.
    • A micro USB cable can be used to connect to the SYNC software on the PC to configure and display Data.
    • The Terminal block on the SS-002-01 can be connected to a yet to be determined probe to measure the remote environment..

Block Diagram

The following diagram depicts my design for how the pieces of the N-Layer bundle will be used to implement my idea

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Dashboard Design

It seems from my review of the N-Layer Cloud, that it does not have the capabilities to design a Dashboard like the Arduino cloud does. It looks like the data on the connected device represented on the interface are put together dynamically on screen blocks based on the way the device is configured. Therefore there is no way to design a Dashboard as far as I can see.

References

How Do Layer N Products Work? | Omega Engineering

Omega´s Layer-N-Cloud Systems | Browse & Shop Online | Omega Engineering

SYNC - Omega Device Configuration Software

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  • in reply to dang74

    Thanks for reading through my blog and commenting on it. The block diagram was done using LucidChart. It was the first time I used it. The FREE version contained all the stencils I needed to construct a professional looking project design diagram.

    This was a different Design Challenge, in that the IoT pieces were already intact and all we had to do was to configure and Implement the pieces. THis was not a trivial task for me  but with the help of Omega support and fellow challengers I was able to get my idea working.

    There were a lot of moving parts and still plenty of room to add more Omega pieces. This is a well designed Ecosystem, of edge devices, that can send data up to the Cloud for analysis and warning alarms for out of range device conditions.

    If you have a chance, please check out the entire blog series and let me know what you think ..

    •  Blog# 1 My Idea 
      •  contains an introduction to my Idea.
    • Blog#2 Design
      • This blog will include the Design of my Idea.
    • Blog#3 Implementation
      • This blog will include the implementation of the Basic Design described in the previous blog in this Series.
    • Blog#4 Testing
      • This blog will do testing, on the implementation of the design
    • Blog#5 Conclusion
      • This is the final blog in the series. I demonstrate the remote weather station running. I give some conclusions as to what I have gained from this Design Challenge and  list some possible enhancements that can be added to make the system more useful.

    Regards Steve K

  • in reply to skruglewicz

    I'll check out LucidChart because truth be told the things I produce can use a little polish.  Thanks for that tip.  I'll definitely read your blogs to learn more about your project and IoT in general.