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From Industrial Waste to Clean Energy - Fuelling Smart Heating Systems with Edge Control Technology

brainboxesbuff — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 10:40:11 GMT

The costs associated with industrial heating and the disposal of industrial biomass can be significant; both to businesses and to the environment. Ranheat, a leading provider of biomass energy management equipment, design and manufacture wood waste b...(read more)

Comfortably on Track to Deliver - Fully Unattended Condition Monitoring on Trains

brainboxesbuff — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 09:41:17 GMT

Condition monitoring allows engineers to understand the health of key assets; whether they are machines in a factory, or for Govia, the UK’s largest railway franchise delivering 24% of all passenger rail journeys, the trains that make up their fleet....(read more)

Automation in the Antarctic; Adding Resilience to Remote Data Capture Systems

brainboxesbuff — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 10:40:43 GMT

Built on a floating ice shelf in the Antarctic, the British Antarctic Survey’s Halley VI Research Station collects important data to aid in the study of global problems from climate change and rising sea-levels, to space weather and the thinning of t...(read more)

Makevember Project - How Much More Can a 140 Foot Vessel Grow?

Sean_Miller — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 02:29:31 GMT

INTRODUCTIONCoke Drums are big. Believe it or not, they just keep getting bigger!Refining Industry Coke Drum Coke Drums in refining take the heaviest part of the crude that is left over in distilling and heats it up until it begins to brea...(read more)

Micro Monster - Succulent Plants Monitoring System (part-6) Final Testing and Demo

mahmood.hassan — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 04:53:31 GMT

Remote Monitoring & ControlEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for a chance to win up to a $200 Shopping Cart of Product!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 Home Monthly Themes Monthly Theme Poll Finally I am able to interface all...(read more)

Plant a seed and watch it grow... (Part 3: presenting a new unfuzzy creation, well almost)

BigG — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 22:30:00 GMT

Introduction This blog is to close out this project for the purposes of the remote monitoring competition. In blog 1, I presented an old project, which was based on fuzzy logic and used analog moisture sensors which corroded over time....(read more)

CatDogFox #8 : No Cats but Some Nice Legs

dubbie — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 22:05:10 GMT

I tried the GridEye sensor outside last night where the temperature dropped to about 10 C, which is actually better for detecting the cats as they would stand out more from the background ambient temperature. I did have to make a few tweaks to the se...(read more)

Plant a seed and watch it grow... (Part 2: grafting in a new branch called mDash)

BigG — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 10:32:00 GMT

Preface Introduction mDash – an IoT platform for ESP32 devices. ESP32 Smart Light Example Next steps Preface For an IoT (Internet of Things) project to be truly remote it needs to have Over-The-Air (OTA) firmware up...(read more)

PSoC®︎ 6 WiFi-BT Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062-WiFi-BT) - Remote Reset Over Secured MQTT Connection

mahmood.hassan — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 10:07:34 GMT

LoRa Experimental Environmental Sensors (LoRaXes) - Conclusion

ralphjy — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 01:19:13 GMT

Another Project14 Challenge complete - sort of..... As always, some goals were met and some were not. I thought that I would summarize where I got to. Blog Post IndexLoRa Experimental Environmental Sensors (LoRaXes) - Introduct...(read more)

PSoC®︎ 6 WiFi-BT Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062-WiFi-BT) - External Flash

mahmood.hassan — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 17:23:15 GMT

CatDogFoxBot # 7 : GridEye and Artificial Neural Network Combined

dubbie — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 14:42:21 GMT

There's not much time left before the end of the Remote Monitoring and Control Project14 competition so I'm rushing to get finished, or at least, nearer to finishing. I have combined the two Arduino programmes I have been working with; one fr...(read more)

Temperature and Humidity Sensor (DHT22) Interfacing with PSoC6 WiFi-BT Pioneer Kit

mahmood.hassan — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 09:52:29 GMT

Micro Monster - Succulent Plants Monitoring System (part-2) Establishing A Secure Connection

mahmood.hassan — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 14:53:00 GMT

Previous Parts: Micro Monster - Succulent Plants Monitoring System (part-1) Next Parts: coming soon Introduction: For remote monitoring and controlling of any device required internet access, MQTT broker, storage for remote & local data loggin...(read more)

LoRa Experimental Environmental Sensors (LoRaXes) - Assembly Complete

ralphjy — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 00:24:00 GMT

I made all the changes needed to the case assembly and I trimmed down the proto PCB and wired the connections to the sensors. Here is a picture of the completed assembly: Not pretty, but looks like a prototype..... At the ...(read more)