My wireless sensor network 18Months on

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seaton
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My wireless sensor network 18Months on

Post by seaton » Tue Dec 29, 2015 2:18 pm

I have a couple of wireless arduinoish nodes running from a single AA battery on a boost regulator and early last week I had check for the first time in a while (over 3 months), only to find my RPI doing the data collection and aggregation had fallen over, so no history until I rebooted, however it is interesting to see that the nodes batteries are still going strong, as the node were still actively transmitting data all that time. They collect sensor data every 10 minutes, transmit then deep sleep as I find that room temperatures don't change much over that time.

These batteries were sourced out of my "Too Flat to do useful work but still may have something left in them box" and so far I haven't changed them in the last 18 months.

https://personal.xively.com/feeds/236384690
https://personal.xively.com/feeds/1615489524


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Re: My wireless sensor network 18Months on

Post by parkview » Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:42 pm

Bummer about the history there. Had the RPi locked up, or just the logging service?

PS. the accounts you listed are private, so anonymous people can't view them.

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Re: My wireless sensor network 18Months on

Post by seaton » Wed Dec 30, 2015 9:43 am

Yes I wasn't happy, I have a feeling that campbell had knocked it when he plugged in his network cable to the Router, which is close by, I'm not sure, but I rebooted and all working. Think it may be just the feed that was not pushing out to Xively but haven't checked the local database. I like the look of Xiverly, but the free feed only keeps 3 months worth of data so am looking at other options for my cloud IoT, will look at adafruits new service thats free. Spark fun also has one.

Bugger, sorry about that, hmmm I can't see where I can make them public so have screen shots of the two nodes

Living Room, you can see when Campbell turned on the Air Conditioner, then Off when he went to work
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Re: My wireless sensor network 18Months on

Post by parkview » Wed Dec 30, 2015 9:48 pm

Yes,nice looking graphs. Mine is public: https://cosm.com/feeds/122949 but that was setup ages ago before they morphed into Xiverly.

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