Smart Campus Energy Lab

What is Smart Campus Energy Lab?

The goal of Smart Campus Energy Lab is to help the University of Hawaii run on 100% renewable energy. Currently we are aiming to deploy sensor networks (weather-boxes) around the campus to help determine where solar panels and other renewable energy sources can be located. Some of these sensors include temperature, pressure, solar irradiance and humidity.

What Do I Do?

I am on a team that works on the firmware. Our main goal is to assist teams that are building sensor networks by implementing firmware that can collect the meteorological data. We then create a packet, which contains our sensor data, that will be transmitted to our database. In addition to our sensor packet, we also have a second packet that contains the status of the sensor network itself. Above is a block diagram to help visualize the structure of the firmware. Some applications that we utilize is Atom as our text editor. Another application is Platformio to build and upload our firmware. We also use a combination of C and C++ to write our code.

This project has help me learn more about what it takes work a large scale project. Teamwork is important as there are many components that have be put together to create our sensor network.

You can check out our website here!