CDR 2011 Team Gong

Presentation by:
Andrew Frieden
Matthew Weydt
Nick Setzer
Tyler Dunn

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Presentation Overview

Main Goal
Recap from last time
Flow Diagrams
Spending
Gantt chart
Demo

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Main Goal
To design and build a device that will determine
whether it would be cost effective to install solar
panels on a customers roof.

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Project Overview
Name: Self Sustaining Solar Sensor
Uses Arduino microcontroller, GPRS transmitter,
analog light sensors and android application to
track data
Self powered using its own solar panel
Our device will give real time data, angle of
power optimization, and dollar value feedback to
the customer

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Design (Pyranometer Array)

13 sensors
Silicon Photodetectors
Temperature sensor for solar efficiency

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Design Continued.
Pyranometer array on half sphere
Uses many sensors to measure irradiance
Irradiance is used to calculate electrical efficiency of
solar panels
Pyranometers act as control points to find an optimal
direction for solar panel

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http://www.instesre.org/construction/pyranometer/pyranometer.htm

Design Continued.
Application will have calculator to do most/all of
the data processing
Energy calculations for electrical efficiency from
irradiance
Optimal direction algorithms

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Data Flow Diagram

Arduino
Device

Micro
Controlle
r + SD
card

GPRS
Transmitt
er

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TCP Packet
with JSON
encoded
data

Android Device
Application pulls
from Database

Php script

MySql
Database

Interpolation
Algorithm
giving real time
results to
customer

Arduino Device
Arduino
Device

Micro
Controlle
r + SD
card

GPRS
Transmitt
er

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TCP Packet
with JSON
encoded
data

Android Device
Application pulls
from Database

Php script

MySql
Database

Interpolation
Algorithm
giving real time
results to
customer

Transmission Phase
Arduino
Device

Micro
Controlle
r + SD
card

GPRS
Transmitt
er

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TCP Packet
with JSON
encoded
data

Android Device
Application pulls
from Database

Php script

MySql
Database

Interpolation
Algorithm
giving real time
results to
customer

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Android Device
Arduino
Device

Micro
Controlle
r + SD
card

GPRS
Transmitt
er

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TCP Packet
with JSON
encoded
data

Android Device
Application pulls
from Database

Php script

MySql
Database

Interpolation
Algorithm
giving real time
results to
customer

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Spending
Current spending total to date: ~$350
Money left to date:~$150
Estimate for production value for unit:~$100$150
Current market technology: 6-8 design hours,
digital image processing units (example
Solmetric Suneye) ~$2000

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Gantt Chart

2/16/2012
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Arduino Demo
Periodic Wakeup and Sleeps
Read and Write to sd-card
Sample analog sensors

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Spline Interpolation

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Transmission Demo
GPRS

Initialize the connection to the T-Mobile access point

Open a single IP connection to westhostsite.com
Construct a TCP Packet
Send a HTTP Post to /sdp/sendjson.php

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Packet Image
Post Command

TCP Packet

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Android Demo
Query the database for sensor data
Displays graphs of data

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How do we plan on demoing this?

Downloadable android application
which we will also have on display
Sensor will real time update our
phone and calculator
Users can see the power and money
that could be saved by the ambient
light in the room and a flashlight
Increase sensor and transmission
rate for demo

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Requirements
Low Power, maximum of 5v peak operating with
drawing no more than 2A from our power supply
Android Application for calculating best performance
of static solar panel, graphically displaying sensor
data and a good estimate to dollar value saved by a
user on a monthly basis
A hardware device capable of processing and
transmitting sensor data to the internet
A sampling and transmission cycle that consumes less
power than can be recharged via our solar panel
A sensor array able to accurately sense light intensity
of the sun in a potential spot for solar panels
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Project Management

Andrew Frieden, CSE:

Android Application development
Money saving, power saving and direction of optimal solar panel algorithms
Web Designer
Matthew Weydt, CSE:
PHP Web Server development
MySql Server development
Arduino programming
GPRS programming
Nick Setzer, EE:
Solar panel step down converter
Power supply system
Assist Arduino programming
Tyler Dunn, EE:
Sensor testing and Integration
Device construction
Power system design and testing
Assist Arduino and GPRS programming

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