Kenny Luong

This is my personal namespace. I was a former scel student who graduated in Fall 2016. After school, I ended up moving to Austin, TX and working for AMD.

I'm currently working at Cloudflare in Austin as a systems/software engineer.

Here is my linkedin profile, feel free to add me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kennyluong/

Feb 2020

• Generic Schema Round 2

Oct 2022

• Notes on testing
• Running a service in production

Sep 2022

• Using cloudflare pages

• Using cloudflare pages

Nov 2021

• Bug - unpack requires string argument length of 2
• Migrating time_received to utc

Oct 2021

• Improvement - Use a database migration tool
• Consider using golang for the gateway
• Improvement - Firmware Testing
• Refactoring the firmware
• Improvement - Upgrade gateway code from python2 to python3
• Network structure

Sept 2021

• Improvement - Sensor nodes should be able to be run without solar
• Feature Idea - Multisite Deployments
• Improvement - Long Term Roadmap
• Improvement - Technical Specs
• Feature Idea - Staging Environment
• Feature Idea - Full end to end local setup

April 2021

• Feature Idea - Get and set panid in gateway
• Improvement - Standardize and document test gateway
• Feature Idea - Node dataset vending machine
• Feature Idea - Webui for gateway

March 2021

• Improvement - Technical Orientation
• Improvement - Bare boards for every generation
• Improvement - Simplified data pipeline
• Documentation Idea - Software onboarding checklist
• Investigation - Guava packets
• Feature Idea - Two way communication
• Feature Idea - Command Mode with Timeout
• Feature Idea - Onboard XBee Diagnostics
• Feature Idea - Change attached xbee's panid
• Feature Idea - Python script to configure XBees

Draft/TODO

• Thinking about a generic schema
• Low power design considerations
• Understanding XBee Networks - will include some python/x-ctu examples
• Managing databases for applications - specifically talking about the gateway
• Working with bare microcontrollers
• The state of the wiki
• Two way communications with nodes
• USB devices, udev rules and ftdi converters
• OTA Firmware Uploads
• Solar Power Systems
• Arduino ceramic resonator
• Raspberry pi power savings
• Semi-remote programming using rapsberry pi zero W + xbees
• local stub development environment