CS404 Data Display of Weather station
Embedded Linux Class by Mark A. Yoder
Team Members:
1. Gopal Krishan Aggarwal
2. Siddhartha G
3. Sri Venkat
Contents
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00 Executive Summary 00 Installation Instructions 00 User Instructions 00 Highlights 00 Theory of Operation 00 Work Breakdown 00 Future Work 00 Conclusions 00 Demo 00 Not Late Comments: I'm looking forward to seeing this. Score: 00/100
Executive Summary
The goal of the parent project - Local Weather Station through Remote Sensor Network, under which this projects comes, was to build and deploy a remote data network to gather environmental data from around campus and display it on a standard web interface. It is based on a model using a central server with sensors (temperature, humidity, pressure, etc.) attached to remote clients. The clients use wifi and/or Ethernet to report data back to the server. A wide range of remote clients were considered (BeagleBone, Arduino, ESP8266, etc.) making it easy to interface other types of clients in the future. Phant is used to implement the server. It presents the data in graphical form on a web server through Plotly.
Our roal: We displayed the gathered data in a human consumable form. The displayed data is interactive i.e. users are able to zoom in, to see data of higher resolutions of time and interact in many more ways - thanks to Plotly javascript library. Extensive use of jQuery has been done to add additional features to webpage, like automatic refreshing to fetch only latest datapoints, option to toggle annotations, add new annotations, view last 24 hours, last week and last months data. Option to report a problem becomes activated if latest data is not coming. Three parameters temperature, pressure and humidity are plotted.
Packaging
[Doubts as to what will go here]
Installation Instructions
User does not need to install anything to view the plots and related stuff. A good web-browser with javascript enabled is all that is required.
User Instructions
The user instructions would follow subsequently after having the installation file and procedure setup.
Highlights
In a vast campus like ours, seldom are the temperature readings consistent at different places. Hence, it is our objective to gather weather inputs at several points in the campus and then deduce the mean of these readings to get a generalised value. In addition to this, we are interested in generating the statistical figures such as standard deviations and graphs for the weather changes, in the campus.
Theory of Operation
The theory of operation relies wholly on the operation of the individual components of the project, in this case, on the individual sensors and the wifi module.
Work Breakdown
Future Work
We would try and install a suitable set-up for measuring the wind speed in the campus. The setup could be located on the rooftop of any tall building.
Conclusions
As of now, we have done the groundwork to deal with the sensors and wifi module handed over to us. In the near future, we are planning to install sensor apparatus in a few whereabouts in the campus.
Embedded Linux Class by Mark A. Yoder
