Remote Environmental Monitoring Using HopeRF RFM69HW and Arduino

Here are the materials from a talk given at the Triangle Embedded Interest Group (TriEmbed) September 12th, 2016 meeting at North Carolina State University.

Open Document Presentation (ODP) Slides

Portable Document Format (PDF) Slides

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Project motivation: The creek occasionally floods

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Monitor components: Ultrasonic sensor (right), temp/humidity (bottom), Hope RF board (top-left)

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Bottom view of ultrasonic sensor and temp/humidity sensors and radio/MCU carrier boad

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Monitor overlooking creek with “measuring tape yagi” antenna above

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Solar panel for battery charging

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The measuring tape yagi and RG6 feedline

Triangle Embedded Interest Group