scholarly journals A new environmental monitoring system for silkworm incubators

F1000Research ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 248
Author(s):  
Alejandra Duque-Torres ◽  
Carlos Rodriguez-Pabon ◽  
Juan Ruiz-Rosero ◽  
Giselle Zambrano-Gonzalez ◽  
Martha Almanza-Pinzon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Combined Effect ◽  
Monitoring Data ◽  
Raspberry Pi ◽  
Environmental Monitoring System ◽  
Temperature And Humidity ◽  
Google Drive

Silk is known as the queen of textiles due to its softness, durability, and luster. This textile is obtained from cocoons spun by larvae known as the silkworm. The combined effect of both temperature and humidity, determines the satisfactory growth of the silkworms and the production of good quality cocoons. For that rea- son, we propose a new prototype for silkworm incubators that monitors environmental conditions, created with Raspberry Pi due to its capabilities, features, and low cost. The prototype monitors the temperature, humidity, and luminosity in a silkworm incubator. The monitoring data are collected and saved on file hosting service, Google Drive, for subsequent analysis. Preliminary tests were gathered using the silkworm incubator of University of Cauca, Colombia.

scholarly journals Using Microcomputers in an Online Introduction to Horticulture Class

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Elaine Burnett
Keyword(s):  
Plant Growth ◽  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Raspberry Pi ◽  
Environmental Monitoring System ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Hands On Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Online courses in horticulture increase the breadth of students who may be able to enroll. However, it is challenging to create hands-on learning experiences in online classes that are valuable for student learning. In an online introduction to horticulture class at the University of Maine, we created a hands-on project that is appropriate for students to work on independently at home. Students built an environmental monitoring system using a relatively inexpensive Raspberry Pi microcomputer and sensors for monitoring environmental factors that impact plant growth with a particular focus on monitoring temperature and humidity. They monitored the growing environment in their homes while growing house plants and used the information from their environmental monitoring system to determine whether their home environment was suitable for growing plants. Students were asked to use a pre-existing computer program in the Python language to monitor the environment. They also learned about how components of the code function and changed some simple parts of the code. A majority of students working on this project felt moderately confident, somewhat more confident, or very confident about their ability to use a Raspberry Pi microcomputer in the future. This project provides students with valuable hands-on experience in building environmental monitoring systems and provides them with a deeper understanding of the impact of the environment on plant growth.

scholarly journals Towards the Development of an Automatic UAV-Based Indoor Environmental Monitoring System: Distributed Off-Board Control System for a Micro Aerial Vehicle

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 2347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Solis ◽  
Christoffer Karlsson ◽  
Simon Johansson ◽  
Kristoffer Richardsson
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Target Location ◽  
Flight Time ◽  
Distributed Control System ◽  
Micro Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Environmental Monitoring System ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Aerial Vehicle

This research aims to develop an automatic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based indoor environmental monitoring system for the acquisition of data at a very fine scale to detect rapid changes in environmental features of plants growing in greenhouses. Due to the complexity of the proposed research, in this paper we proposed an off-board distributed control system based on visual input for a micro aerial vehicle (MAV) able to hover, navigate, and fly to a desired target location without considerably affecting the effective flight time. Based on the experimental results, the MAV was able to land on the desired location within a radius of about 10 cm from the center point of the landing pad, with a reduction in the effective flight time of about 28%.

Research on the Protective Device of Outside Environmental Monitoring System for Refuge Chamber

2013 ◽  
Vol 791-793 ◽  
pp. 870-873
Author(s):  
Zhong Hui Yin ◽  
Bin Hui Zhang ◽  
An Ning Zhang ◽  
Zi Long Jing ◽  
Yu Ming Gu
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Structural Strength ◽  
Protective Device ◽  
Gas Explosion ◽  
Theory Analysis ◽  
Mine Environment ◽  
Environmental Monitoring System ◽  
Good Contact ◽  
Normal Work

In order to protect the components of monitoring, some measures should be taken when refuge chamber uses outside environmental monitoring system. This paper designs a kind of protective device for outside environmental monitoring system based on related theory analysis and coal mine environment. It can protect monitoring components from gas explosion shock wave. Meantime there is good contact between sensitive element and outside environment to guarantee the normal work of the monitoring system. Finally, this paper builds the model of protective device, and analyses its structural strength.

scholarly journals Opportunistic Cooperative Sensing for Indoor Complex Environment Monitoring

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (08) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Yong Jin ◽  
Zhenjiang Qian ◽  
Xiaoshuang Xing ◽  
Lu Shen
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Environment Monitoring ◽  
Communication Services ◽  
Environmental Monitoring System ◽  
Major Bottleneck

ensor nodes vulnerable becomes a major bottleneck restricting the wide application of wireless sensor networks WSNs (Wireless Sensor Networks). In order to satisfy the needs of industrial production and daily living environment monitoring, it is important to improve the survivability of wireless sensor networks in environmental monitoring application. In order to have a reliable environment monitoring system, this paper analyzed the damage types and causes of WSNs and the measurement methods of WSNs survivability. Then, we studied the fault detection method and finally realized the design can improve the survivability of the scheme. The robust guarantee scheme through hardware design and algorithm model, realized the remote wireless communication services and prolonged the network life cycle, so as to improve the survivability of the environmental monitoring system.

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