This week, I worked on getting low power mode working with the ArduCam and testing the battery life of the nodes. The current battery life was almost 4 days (5500 images captured and uploaded), so once low power mode is properly implemented and it passes the timing requirements, we should be well within all requirements for the node. I encountered an issue when doing battery life testing that a portion of my images were not fully uploaded, leaving vertical lines at the bottom, and some were not even recognized as images. I’m hoping that this is an issue due to me using a very simple test server I set up and uploading at 6 times the anticipated rate, but I’ve talked with Krish about it and it shouldn’t be too hard of a problem to overcome for the preliminary data sets.
I am currently on schedule, but next week will be very tight as I am still waiting on server code to integrate, confirmation of approval to mount nodes in Sorrells, the reading assignment, and heading home on Friday.