Our project is aimed to create a system to quickly detect and notify where these forest fires are occurring. Because forest fires are becoming a major problem in places like California, we are trying to create a system that could quickly notify the public of the fire’s location. We want this system to be low power and time-efficient. We plan to implement a wireless sensor network with multiple nodes where we are able to transmit amongst the nodes where the fire is happening. This node’s (where the fire is “set off”) location will be displayed on a web application. With the resources from this course, we will obviously not be testing it on a large scale, but designing it such that it can be scaled as needed.
We ended up changing our project, this was our previous project idea:
Our project is aimed to create the optimal environment for growing healthy plants, more specifically plants used for medicinal purposes. The target audience for our project is pharmaceutical botanists who farm medicinal plants on a large scale. When growing plants for medicinal purposes, it’s vital that the plants have the appropriate soil pH and soil moisture and that those attributes are being constantly monitored. We plan to implement a system that gathers soil samples from a plant and measures its pH and moisture using the appropriate sensors. The data that is read from the sensor will trigger an additional system to mix a solution that is pumped into the soil to adjust the pH to the optimal level. We want our system to be something that can be scaled up so pharmaceutical botanists will be able to apply this to multiple plants.