Welcome to EnviroDIY, a community for do-it-yourself environmental science and monitoring. EnviroDIY is part of WikiWatershed, a web toolkit designed to help citizens, conservation practitioners, municipal decision-makers, researchers, educators, and students advance knowledge and stewardship of fresh water. New to EnviroDIY? Start hereAuthor: neilh20
Geographical Scaling Modular Sensors
Modular Sensors library of sensors interfaces is fantastic. Sara’s classes form a backbone of data flowing from the sensors to the cloud(s), all running on the low cost, solar powered Mayfly. Thanks Shannon and Sara and many others who help teach about Modular Sensors. I was able to extend the Keller Acculevel Class to a Keller Nanolevel device easily, and I’m working on the Insitu SDI-12 interfac...[Read More]
Comparison temperature dependency: LT500, Keller Nano Level
Testing equipment to measure water depth accurately in low flow applications in surface water streams.
Measuring low water in streams accurately
To recap from a previous blog, a project looking at effects of drought conditions is monitoring the low water depths in-stream, with transducers that have a capability of reliably measuring changes of ±0.01’(feet) in low water conditions, connected via an open interface 4-20mA to an Onset U30 cellular wireless logger. For reliability, it was decided to use two water transducers per logger. Over ...[Read More]
Accurate low stream depth measurements viewable on internet
Working on a remote river monitoring project with partners Cemar.org and a local chapter of The Nature Conservancy.
Wild wireless world ~ 2G or 3G
Wireless access comes in many forms – the cellular access is quite extraordinary in how useful it’s been – untethered access. There are hidden undercurrents for remote sensing M2M (machine-2-machine) – cellular technology shoals that can beach the unwary. I got beached – so I’m sharing it. Whether or not it’s on Sparkfun or publiclaboratories.org low cost cellular modems are being discussed and p...[Read More]
IMP calling sensor
A fun project was using the Electric IMP001 to communicate with an RS485 pressure transducer. The readings are delivered to the cloud and use the nice (and evolving) services of thingspeak.net. The starting point was to test the stability of an RS485 pressure sensor – and check out the then new IMP001 – two projects in one. Stability testing a pressure transducer is putting it into a bottle of wat...[Read More]
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