The ECOmonitor Ecological Monitoring System Project Demonstration December

The ECOmonitor Ecological Monitoring System Project Demonstration – December 15, 2009 Ryan Cimoszko Harvir Mann Brian Lee Amandeep Grewal

Agenda 1. Motivation 2. Overview 3. Business Aspects 4. Technical Details 5. Conclusion & Discussion

Project Overview v. Monitoring of ANY environmental condition Temperature, sound, vibration, pressure, motion, humidity etc. v. Applications Environmental Monitoring § Wildfire Detection § Habitat Monitoring (Research) Other Applications § Greenhouse Monitoring § Healthcare Monitoring Team | Overview | Business | Hardware | Wireless Hopping | Software | Conclusion | Discussion

High Level System Design INPUTS Environmental Conditions OUTPUTS Monitoring Station #N Signal Processing Wireless Transmitter Data Buffer Measured Data #N Monitoring Station #(N-1) Wireless Receiver Environmental Conditions Signal Processing Wireless Transmitter Data Buffer Measured Data #(N-1) Monitoring Station Wireless Receiver Environmental Conditions Signal Processing Wireless Transmitter Data Buffer Measured Data #1 Measured Data #(N-1) Measured Data #N Base Station Wireless Receiver Micro. Controller PC Database Storage Webpage Team | Overview | Business | Hardware | Wireless Hopping | Software | Conclusion | Discussion

Technical Details q Micrcontroller Modules § AVR 40 Pin Development Kit § Atmega 32 q Sensors § Temp/Humidity Sensor – Sensirion § CO 2 Sensor – Futurelec q Software § Database – Python, Pyserial, Mysqld. B § Website – HTML, Javascript, PHP q Wireless Transmitter/Receiver § XBee Pro Module Team | Overview | Business | Hardware | Wireless Hopping | Software | Conclusion | Discussion

Wireless Hopping – Send/Receive Data q Send Parameters q Receive Parameters § Origin Station ID § Current Station ID § Hopping Control OSID(2 Bytes) CSID ( 2 Bytes) HC(1 Byte) § Transmitting Station ID § Receiving Station ID § Header Flag Temp ( 5 Bytes) Humidity (5 Bytes) CO 2(5 Bytes) Team | Overview | Business | Hardware | Wireless Hopping | Software | Conclusion | Discussion

Wireless Hopping – Base Station v. PC is USB connected to XBee module v. Python serial interface Receives 20 byte input from station 1 or 2 Performs data integrity check Converts data into numerical values and writes to the database v. System Re-initialization Adaptive re-initialization scheme Team | Overview | Business | Hardware | Wireless Hopping | Software | Conclusion | Discussion

Wireless Hopping – Re-initialization q Re-initialization packet transmits Hopping Control flag to the highest station in the wireless chain. § Max ID signifies the highest node ID in the network OSID(2 Bytes) CSID(2 Bytes) HC(1 Byte) Max. ID(2 Bytes) Null Data(13 Bytes) q Re-initialization scheme uses Send and Acknowledgement scheme Team | Overview | Business | Hardware | Wireless Hopping | Software | Conclusion | Discussion

Database Structure 2009/12/31 00: 00 … … 2009/12/31 00: 00 2009/12/31 … 2009/12/31 24: 00: 00 2009/12/31 24: 00 n S 1 n, T 0 S 2 n, T 0 S 3 n, T 0 … … 1 2 3 S 11, T 24 S 12, T 24 S 13, T 24 S 21, T 24 S 22, T 24 S 23, T 24 S 31, T 24 S 32, T 24 S 33, T 24 … SNn, T 0 … … … SN 1, T 24 SN 2, T 24 SN 3, T 24 … … S 1 n, T 24 S 2 n, T 24 S 3 n, T 24 … SNn, T 24 S 21, T 0 S 22, T 0 S 23, T 0 S 31, T 0 S 32, T 0 S 33, T 0 … … … SN 1, T 0 SN 2, T 0 SN 3, T 0 … SNn, T 0 … … … SN 1, T 24 SN 2, T 24 SN 3, T 24 … SNn, T 24 … … … S 11, T 0 S 12, T 0 S 13, T 0 S 1 n, T 0 Sensor N SN 1, T 0 SN 2, T 0 SN 3, T 0 … 1 2 3 n … … … 2009/12/31 00: 00: 00 2009/12/31 00: 00 … Sensor 3 S 31, T 0 S 32, T 0 S 33, T 0 … n … Sensor 2 S 21, T 0 S 22, T 0 S 23, T 0 … … Sensor 1 S 11, T 0 S 12, T 0 S 13, T 0 … Station ID 1 2 3 … Time Stamp 2009/01/01 00: 00: 00 2009/01/01 00: 00 2009/01/01 … 2009/01/01 24: 00: 00 2009/01/01 24: 00 … … S 21, T 24 S 22, T 24 S 23, T 24 S 31, T 24 S 32, T 24 S 33, T 24 … … … S 1 n, T 24 S 2 n, T 24 S 3 n, T 24 … … n … … S 11, T 24 S 12, T 24 S 13, T 24 … … 1 2 3 Team | Overview | Business | Hardware | Wireless Hopping | Software | Conclusion | Discussion

Budget Required Material Solar Panels Wireless Transmitters Estimated Costs Actual Costs $ 170 - (Used 6 V battery instead) $ 80 $ 100 Developmental kit $ 200 $ 210 Microcontrollers $ 300 CO 2 Sensors $ 40 $ 95 Temperature Sensor $ 30 $ 20 Humidity Sensors $ 80 $ 180 Server Space - $ 35 ADC - $ 20 $ 40 $ 152 $ 940 $ 1112 Miscellaneous Total Cost Team | Overview | Business | Hardware | Wireless Hopping | Software | Conclusion | Discussion

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