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Home Environmental Sensor Array Part 2

Summary Status

The node is communicating to the host which communicates to the Raspberry Pi over the serial connection. The RPi is sending data to the MySQL database on the internet.

Click here to view blog posts for both HESA projects.

Description

The Home Environmental Sensor Array is working as designed. (See the first part of the project for more information about that.) The next phase of the project is to make a true sensor array with wireless sensor nodes that talk to a central host. The existing Raspberry Pi in the HESA will serve as the central host that collects all data and saves it to the database on the internet. Sensor nodes will collect various types of data – temperature, humidity, open doors, etc. The sensors will communicate to the host using wireless transceivers.

Host Bill of Materials

Part Desc Vendor Part Nbr Qty Unit Cost Total Cost
Raspberry Pi Vendor 1 Nbr 1 Q1 $0.00 $0.00
Moteino Transceiver: RFM69HW - 868/915Mhz LowPowerLab R4 1 $19.95 $19.95
Moteino 4mb flash memory LowPowerLab N/A 1 $3.00 $3.00
Moteino male header pins LowPowerLab N/A 1 $1.00 $1.00
Part 1 Vendor 1 Nbr 1 Q1 $0.00 $0.00

Node Bill of Materials

Part Desc Vendor Part Nbr Qty Unit Cost Total Cost
Moteino Transceiver: RFM69HW - 868/915Mhz LowPowerLab R4 1 $19.95 $19.95
Moteino 4mb flash memory LowPowerLab N/A 1 $3.00 $3.00
Moteino male header pins LowPowerLab N/A 1 $1.00 $1.00
Moteino FTDI adapter LowPowerLab FTDI-Adaptor 1 $14.50 $14.50
Part 1 Vendor 1 Nbr 1 Q1 $0.00 $0.00

Host Tasks

Task Status
Get the Moteino to communicate to the Rpi Completed
Write a sketch for the Moteino host to communicate to the Moteino nodes and the RPi Completed
Test communicating to the Moteino node Completed
Incorporate the Moteino host into the HESA Completed
Modify the HESA python code to write node data to the SQL database Completed
Task xx Not started

Node Tasks

Task Status
Figure out how to measure the current from the battery Completed
Figure out how to measure temperature using the RFM69 transceiver. The temperature sensor on the Moteino is for the processor only, not for the temperature of the air. Completed
Build a sensor node Completed
Test communicating to the host Completed
Acquire a DHT11 Completed
Insert the DHT11 into the sensor node Completed
Design a circuit for the node In progress
Make more sensors Not started

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projects/home_environmental_sensor_array2.txt · Last modified: 2015/02/21 00:36 by kennethsbecker