[TriEmbed] GPRS sensor trial

Wed Oct 8 09:58:08 CDT 2014

Thank you for your questions and interest in the project

Shane, I'm going to write a blog post on this and try to get some of the
topics you raised.

Adam, the batteries are not being recharged currently however I am very
interested in solar going forward.

William, the map represents the approximate GPS location of the cell phone
tower that the GPRS modem is associated with . I get this location using a
built-in function of the GPRS modem and attach does latitude and longitude
as metadata to the trail counts. Going forward I may want to integrate a
GPS receiver on the device but for now this approximate location will help
me keep track of which sensor is which as I add more to the dashboard.

Chip McClelland
(919) 624-5562
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>    1. Re: GPRS Sensor Trial at Umstead Park (Shane Trent)
>    2. Free Georgia Tech Intro to Electronics course starts on the
>       20th (and second one running now) (Pete Soper)
>    3. Re: GPRS Sensor Trial at Umstead Park (William Cox)
>    4. Re: GPRS Sensor Trial at Umstead Park (Adam Haile)
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> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 08:42:12 -0400
> From: Shane Trent <shanedtrent at gmail.com>
> To: Charles McClelland <chip at mcclellands.org>
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> Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] GPRS Sensor Trial at Umstead Park
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> Chip,
>
> The monitoring looks great. You have made fantastic progress in one year!
> Nice work on the cool project(s). I look forward to hearing more updates
> about your projects. I am particularly interested in advances in extending
> battery life and choices on your wireless data (ISP, antenna, module, etc.)
> as your product matures. I also enjoy hearing about your experiences in
> taking the project out into the world, interacting with people and dealing
> with real-world operating conditions.
>
> Shane
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Charles McClelland <chip at mcclellands.org>
> wrote:
>
> > To all,
> >
> > The Superintendent at Umstead park agreed to let me place my traffic
> > counter on the Route 70 entrance to the park.  The sensor ?feels? the
> > vibrations on the pneumatic tube when cars drive over it.  Since I can
> > simply attach my sensor to the outside of the tube, this test does not
> > interfere with their counter.  If this test is successful, the connected
> > sensor could relieve them of having to drive 30 miles each day to check
> and
> > reset their counters.  It could also provide more granular and accurate
> > data.
> >
> > I am not sure how many days I might leave this test running (need a
> bigger
> > battery than the 2000mAH LiPo) so take a look at www.mcclellands.org to
> > see what the data looks like.
> >
> > BTW, this month marks the one year anniversary of my 1st Triembed meeting
> > and getting my 1st Arduino.  Thank you all for your patience, advice and
> > encouragement.
> >
> > Chip
> >
> >
> >
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> Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 09:53:30 -0400
> From: Pete Soper <pete at soper.us>
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> Subject: [TriEmbed] Free Georgia Tech Intro to Electronics course
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> https://www.coursera.org/course/introtoelectronics
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>   The description mentions a GIT "Linear Systems" course for prep but
> I'm sure they mean their "Linear Circuits" course
> <https://www.coursera.org/course/circuits>, which is still running. It's
> possible to sign up for that course. Whether it's possible to hoover up
> enough info from the lectures and materials of that course to help with
> this intro course isn't clear. The text book for the linear circuits
> course is off-the-wall expensive.
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> -Pete
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> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 10:07:05 -0400
> From: William Cox <gallamine at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] GPRS Sensor Trial at Umstead Park
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> Nice dashboard! What does the map indicate?
>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Shane Trent <shanedtrent at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Chip,
> >
> > The monitoring looks great. You have made fantastic progress in one year!
> > Nice work on the cool project(s). I look forward to hearing more updates
> > about your projects. I am particularly interested in advances in
> extending
> > battery life and choices on your wireless data (ISP, antenna, module,
> etc.)
> > as your product matures. I also enjoy hearing about your experiences in
> > taking the project out into the world, interacting with people and
> dealing
> > with real-world operating conditions.
> >
> > Shane
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Charles McClelland <chip at mcclellands.org
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> To all,
> >>
> >> The Superintendent at Umstead park agreed to let me place my traffic
> >> counter on the Route 70 entrance to the park.  The sensor ?feels? the
> >> vibrations on the pneumatic tube when cars drive over it.  Since I can
> >> simply attach my sensor to the outside of the tube, this test does not
> >> interfere with their counter.  If this test is successful, the connected
> >> sensor could relieve them of having to drive 30 miles each day to check
> and
> >> reset their counters.  It could also provide more granular and accurate
> >> data.
> >>
> >> I am not sure how many days I might leave this test running (need a
> >> bigger battery than the 2000mAH LiPo) so take a look at
> >> www.mcclellands.org to see what the data looks like.
> >>
> >> BTW, this month marks the one year anniversary of my 1st Triembed
> meeting
> >> and getting my 1st Arduino.  Thank you all for your patience, advice and
> >> encouragement.
> >>
> >> Chip
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >> TriEmbed at triembed.org
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> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 10:09:34 -0400
> From: Adam Haile <email at adamhaile.net>
> To: William Cox <gallamine at gmail.com>
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> Is the battery being recharged by anything (solar, etc?) or is it just left
> until you have to manually recharge it again?
>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:07 AM, William Cox <gallamine at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Nice dashboard! What does the map indicate?
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Shane Trent <shanedtrent at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Chip,
> >>
> >> The monitoring looks great. You have made fantastic progress in one
> year!
> >> Nice work on the cool project(s). I look forward to hearing more updates
> >> about your projects. I am particularly interested in advances in
> extending
> >> battery life and choices on your wireless data (ISP, antenna, module,
> etc.)
> >> as your product matures. I also enjoy hearing about your experiences in
> >> taking the project out into the world, interacting with people and
> dealing
> >> with real-world operating conditions.
> >>
> >> Shane
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Charles McClelland <
> chip at mcclellands.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> To all,
> >>>
> >>> The Superintendent at Umstead park agreed to let me place my traffic
> >>> counter on the Route 70 entrance to the park.  The sensor ?feels? the
> >>> vibrations on the pneumatic tube when cars drive over it.  Since I can
> >>> simply attach my sensor to the outside of the tube, this test does not
> >>> interfere with their counter.  If this test is successful, the
> connected
> >>> sensor could relieve them of having to drive 30 miles each day to
> check and
> >>> reset their counters.  It could also provide more granular and accurate
> >>> data.
> >>>
> >>> I am not sure how many days I might leave this test running (need a
> >>> bigger battery than the 2000mAH LiPo) so take a look at
> >>> www.mcclellands.org to see what the data looks like.
> >>>
> >>> BTW, this month marks the one year anniversary of my 1st Triembed
> >>> meeting and getting my 1st Arduino.  Thank you all for your patience,
> >>> advice and encouragement.
> >>>
> >>> Chip
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list
> >>> TriEmbed at triembed.org
> >>> http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org
> >>> TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org
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