Water for Food SDS

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04/19/2019 Added

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Senior design capstone project with engineering students to develop method to monitor water levels through bluetooth technology.

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[00:00:00.959](bright, bouncy music)
[00:00:14.140]My name is Emily White here,
[00:00:15.480]I'm a senior electrical engineering major
[00:00:18.080]from Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
[00:00:19.200]I'm Karl Schafer,
[00:00:20.250]I'm a junior computer science, mathematics
[00:00:22.330]double major from Greensboro, North Carolina.
[00:00:25.329]I'm the product manager
[00:00:26.660]for our senior design team,
[00:00:28.040]which is through the Riggs School
[00:00:29.090]studio design program and
[00:00:29.923]the Daugherty Water Food Global Institute.
[00:00:31.650]I'm development manager for the project,
[00:00:33.650]so essentially that is dealing
[00:00:34.880]with all the higher-level architecture decisions
[00:00:37.140]and make sure everything is cohesive
[00:00:38.930]and everything kind of works together.
[00:00:40.260]They're working with them
[00:00:41.100]to work on a pilot project
[00:00:41.933]where they're using data from energy meters
[00:00:46.050]in fields to try and monitor
[00:00:47.830]the amount of energy
[00:00:48.850]that's being used for irrigation.
[00:00:50.670]Our project specifically
[00:00:51.503]is working with these energy meters
[00:00:53.340]that are being used to collect the data.
[00:00:55.070]Right now they use a 3g cellphone
[00:00:56.500]to transmit the data
[00:00:57.333]which introduces a couple problems
[00:00:58.630]because 3g is being phased out
[00:01:00.360]by the end of this year.
[00:01:01.510]And also, because as you can imagine
[00:01:03.420]many farms in Nebraska don't have
[00:01:05.720]the best cell service, essentially,
[00:01:07.104]our goal for this project is
[00:01:09.160]to help address this problem
[00:01:10.080]by giving water for food
[00:01:11.430]a reliable way to transmit the data
[00:01:12.824]from these meters to the cloud
[00:01:14.580]without having to rely
[00:01:15.413]on a cellular connection.
[00:01:16.450]The problem we are dealing with
[00:01:18.847]is a very interesting one,
[00:01:19.680]and to solve it we essentially decided
[00:01:20.513]in the field. It collects data and stores it
[00:01:21.346]to design a three-part data pipeline
[00:01:22.179]that consists of an embedded system,
[00:01:24.010]a mobile application.
[00:01:25.430]And then, on the website,
[00:01:26.960]a web API that runs in the cloud.
[00:01:29.000]The embedded system runs on a Raspberry Pi
[00:01:30.810]and essentially acts as our logger
[00:01:32.770]in the field it collects data and stores it
[00:01:35.160]on its own embedded storage system,
[00:01:35.993]and then whenever a farmer
[00:01:38.330]goes out into the field with their phone,
[00:01:39.718]they can walk up to our system
[00:01:41.410]and then wirelessly transmit it.
[00:01:42.667]Moving on to our mobile web or
[00:01:44.530]mobile application kind of serves
[00:01:45.990]as the intermediary transfer device.
[00:01:48.110]It stores the data,
[00:01:48.943]allows partners to look at their data.
[00:01:50.180]It's built in React Data,
[00:01:51.013]and then eventually we get it
[00:01:51.914]when they get to a place
[00:01:52.747]where they have a more stable internet connection
[00:01:55.370]or reliable internet connection,
[00:01:56.246]they're able to hit a button
[00:01:57.829]and very seamlessly upload all of that data
[00:02:00.070]into our web API.
[00:02:01.240]My name is Jared Frensell,
[00:02:02.520]and I am the senior computer engineer
[00:02:04.130]from Ogden, Nebraska and this year
[00:02:05.530]I've been working on the embedded development
[00:02:07.530]for our projects.
[00:02:08.450]One of the challenges we had this year
[00:02:09.810]was working with the proprietary protocol
[00:02:11.979]to communicate with the beater.
[00:02:13.420]We didn't actually have the specifications for that.
[00:02:15.574]So having to just kind of reverse engineer
[00:02:17.705]that was really difficult.
[00:02:19.312]My name is Marek Grazell,
[00:02:21.025]I'm from Lincoln. I'm a senior,
[00:02:24.326]pure science and I work on the mobile team.
[00:02:29.392]My name is Luke Bendry.
[00:02:31.310]I'm a freshman computer engineering student
[00:02:33.310]from Winnetka, Illinois who is the intern
[00:02:35.530]on the project. My responsibilities involve
[00:02:37.382]the website, and I like the ability to see
[00:02:39.468]what I've done more for like the back end,
[00:02:44.191]and logic, and also to represent that digitally,
[00:02:46.246]and be able to interact with it.
[00:02:48.041]I'm Allison Buckley, from Mitchell,
[00:02:50.700]South Dakota. I'm a senior computer science major.
[00:02:53.142]I'm working on the mobile end of the project.
[00:02:56.630]The most challenging aspects of the project
[00:02:58.390]has just been learning how to use
[00:02:59.981]lots of different types of technologies
[00:03:02.164]and get them all to work together.
[00:03:04.780]My name's Andy Hecht.
[00:03:05.980]I'm a senior electrical and computer engineering major
[00:03:08.544]from Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
[00:03:10.113]I was the main hardware engineer
[00:03:11.921]on this project
[00:03:13.900]and I also did some embedded software
[00:03:16.090]along with Jared, I definitely liked
[00:03:17.630]how I got to touch everything on this project
[00:03:19.580]and just like a total wide array of things
[00:03:22.050]that really touched everything
[00:03:23.310]I've learned in my electrical
[00:03:24.812]and computer engineering.
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