SCEL Weekly Meeting - January 22, 2015
Attended: Dr. Kuh, Andy, Kenny, Zach, Conrad, Ryan, Daisy, Michele, Jeremy, Keoni, Christie, Liane, Sayyed, Alex
Reminders and updates
Presentation: Project Description
Presentation: Conrad
Goals for the Week
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Reminders
SCEL Barbecue on Tuesday, January 27, at 5:00 pm
Registering for x96 and 499
Students who have recently joined the lab
Must fill out waivers (given out)
Must email the leadership team at least one day in advance when you will be coming into the lab so we can make sure someone will be able to let you in
Will be given access to the Dropbox
Updates
Presentation: Conrad
Goals for the Week
Next Week’s Meeting
List of Members
Description of Project
The Smart Campus Energy Lab (SCEL) is an operational unit under the Renewable Energy & Island Sustainability (REIS) group. The REIS group, which encompasses many professors and other labs in the engineering department, strives to advance the development of sustainable and renewable technologies.
Similarly, SCEL also strives to advance this mission specifically by attacking issues with UH Manoa’s grid. Our main project at the moment is developing a sensing and monitoring platform which can provide enough data to forecast renewable energy generation rates such as solar PV and wind. Dubbed the “Weather Box” project, we hope to eventually develop a self-sufficient, scalable, mesh-networked and relatively cheap module that any University can deploy to collect data.
Here are the current issues with the Weather Box project:
Current Leadership Team
Christie Obatake - Project Manager
Zachary Dorman - Technical Lead
Kenny Luong - System Engineer/Mentor
Andy Pham - System Engineer/Mentor
Goals for this semester
Get weather box up on roof
Before spring break, have one unit working and up
5 weather boxes up on multiple roofs by end of semester
Configure weather box via command line/web interface by end of semester
Projects
Weatherbox
Tree monitor
Wind sensor
Lab Website
Web app
Server
Forecasting
Grid Monitoring
Weather Box (Weather Monitoring)
Firmware: Kenny and Zach
Networking Protocol
Power Management
Control Flow
Text Parser
Sensor Module
Server: Kenny
Decoding Algorithm
Database Layer
Data replication
Base station communication
Box communication tool (Command Line)
Box Hardware Design: Kenny and Jon
Control System
Power System
Sensors
PCB Layout
Box test hardware: Kenny and Jon
Companion test board
Breakout boards
Bring-up plan
Box test software: Christie
Software tests for hardware modules
Simulated environment for weatherbox
XBee system test
Database: Kenny
Database Configuration
Database Design
Data integrity
Backup
Box Fabrication: Christie and Jon
Soldering
Housing and mount: Zach
Mount design
Housing design
Integrity test
Web interface- for managing box: Zach and Kenny
Frontend Layout
Frontend code
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Base station code: Kenny
Tunneling Protocol
Daemon Creator
Home Base Communication
Hardware-specific configuration (XBee Nodes)
Base station hardware: Christie
Raspberry Pi + XBee Enclosure
Base station test hardware: Christie
Power cycle test
Base station test software: Zach
Network disconnect test
Simulated nodes and network
Authors
Contributing authors:
cobatake
Created by cobatake on 2015/09/28 10:06.