Distributed Monitoring, Mobile and Web Design
Our sensor display is working again. We just installed a Starlink internet system and that works much better than the Hughesnet or T-Mobile we had before. So we are able to have a public IP number and access our sensor network:
The porch sensor humidity is bogus, the attic sensor humidity is probably pretty close to the porch at 71 %. We are also looking into real-time internet data transfer to support e-commerce.
We are developing sensors for solar power and environment monitoring.
We are currently designing web sites using WordPress and custom php/html/sql/css. Contact us at the email link below for more information.
FPGA programming: For high performance data acquisition Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are the way to go. In the last project we developed a data acquisition system for ultrasound signal processing. In that application we transmitted an ultrasound pulse through a wire terminal crimp during a crimp. At 200 usec intervals we took 300 to 600 samples of both the echo and the through transmitted ultrasound signal simultaneously at 150 Msamples/sec. We designed parallel digital logic to read the two 14 bit analog-to-digital values and transfer all 28 bits to internal FPGA RAM in one 150 MHz clock cycle. At the beginning of each ultrasound pulse we also sampled and transmitted the crimper force and position signals. We used Verilog HDL to program the Cyclone V/GX FPGA digital logic and Altera Quartus II to compile the FPGA code.