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With the help of data that I got from the water level monitor, I was able to justify why my water usage was more than expected and found a leaking near the toilet flush which was used to discharge the water slowly to the sink and fill the flush tank…

Hello all, Finally, I was able to put everything together and started testing out the experimental setup. Wrote a code for the water level measurement and sent the data over LoRa to another module. But I was not getting any good range because I…

Hello all, In this blog, let's explore how we can calculate the water level using an ultrasonic distance sensor and then receive this data to my reciever node in my room. There is no internet coverage at the place where my overhead tanks are kept…

Hello all, It's been a long time, I have recorded my experiments and the respective data but never got time to write blogs on the progress. Here I'm writing everything together like a series. In this blog, I'll explain how I will be setting my first…

In the last blog for the Just Encase Design Challenge, I'm publishing the results and the videos of the landslide monitoring system. The enclosure box contains the electronics that detects the vibrations triggered due to the landslide and sounds an alarm…

Assembling all the parts together In this blog, I will put together all the components of the landslide monitoring system - The vibration sensor, the buzzer and the Arduino inside the enclosure box. I chose the non-transparent 1554UGY water-tight enclosure…

This blog is about surviving the cold weather if your get into an accident and have to wait for emergency personal to arrive. I was a member of Search & Rescue many years ago and know that being prepared is very important. Below are some tips I wanted…

Now for part 2 of my final project. Here is the working video and photos of my completed project. Sorry for the camera movement, driving and holding the camera doesn't make for a steady video. First video is of the start-up (While driving) and speed…

Here is part 1 of my final project. Below is the code and working display of my project. A lot of the live demonstration of my project can't be done due to the risk. I won't drive unsafely or get into an accident in order to show how the project works…

Blog 3: Wireless Communication and Remote Event Triggering In the last blog, I interfaced the vibration sensor with Arduino to detect the landslides. This pretty much completes the sensing enclosure box, however, this vibration detected signal has…

Well, this is it, my final blog post for the Just Encase Design Challenge! It’s been quite the fun project and I’m so glad that I was chosen to participate in it! In this blog, I’m going to analyze the particulate matter (PM) and temperature data that…

Hi all. Hope everyone is safe and well. Conclusion This was an awesome project. When I started it, I knew nothing of LoRa, or LoRaWAN or Arduino IoT Cloud. It was something I was keen to try and this project was an opportunity. It really took…

Hi all ! Hope everyone is safe and well. In my last post about the data collecting , I've spoken about the battery issues and wonder why it only lasts half a day. I then wonder if using a MOSFET could solve the problem, by putting all the sensors…

Hi all ! Hope everyone is well. On this post I will discuss the role of the Arduino UNO. This one is the one that displays the data measured and saves it to an SD Card. This Arduino receives the values from I2C, sent from the local MKR 1300 WAN…

We tested each sensor separately connecting with Arduino MKR WAN 1300 board. Now is the right time to develop our final code for collecting important data from all the sensors and transmitting the data to another Arduino board using LoRa. For doing so…

Hi all ! Hope everyone is fine. Since last weekend, the project went live. I've already discussed - in part - the data collecting part . Receiving What I'm going now to describe is the other end, the receiving one. Here's the schematics, with…

Hi all ! Hope everyone is safe and well Since the past weekend, the project is live. First observations In this end, data collecting, I'm having troubles, in the sense that, a couple of AAA batteries only lasts almost a day. The code has some…

In the last blog, I gave a brief description of the project and the block diagram for the electronics. In this blog, I'll describe the mechanism to detect landslides and test the sensors. I'll be using a vibration sensor interfaced with an Arduino for…

Data Collection Collecting vibration and wind data at varying wind speeds and rotor blade positions is a crucial step for accurately monitoring the health of the wind turbine. The goal here is to simulate some of the environmental conditions that an…

I now have all sub-systems working so it is time to show the full system in action. I expanded the MSP430 firmware to deal with power management and Bluetooth communications and I wrote an android app to allow remote display of the weather station data…

Main water quality parameters in BFT Water quality maintenance and monitoring in any aquaculture are the essential practices aiming at the success of the growing cycles. Temperature, dissolved oxygen (DO), pH, salinity (EC), ORP, solids [total suspended…

Hi everybody ! Hope everyone is safe and well. 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…

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 connectivity…

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: {gallery}Unboxing …