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Sensors in Schools

Information to help students and teachers install and maintain sensors in schools to support healthier waterways and to help save the planet.

Healthy Waterways

• Protecting the platpus
• Frogs
• Waterbugs
• Vegetation around waterways

Smart Cities 2021

• Navigation on the Raspberry Pi
• Security improvements on the Raspberry Pi
• HTML coding
• CSS Cascading Style Sheets
• Python introduction
• Reading data from sensors
• Saving sensor data to a file
• Saving data with timestamps
• Creating a Dynamic web page
• Scheduling tasks using Cron
• Graphing data using Plotly
• 3D printing workshop using TinkerCad
• Laser cutting workshop using TinkerCad
• Water quality sensor construction workshop
• Requesting data from a Water Quality Sensor in Peter Hopper lake
• Node-Red introduction
• Node-Red Dashboards

Smart Cities 2022

Term 1

• What is a Sustainable Smart City?
• How do we use environmental sensors?
• Saving the Platypus
• How to protect waterways with water quality sensors
• Introduction to Raspberry Pi
• Introduction to Debian Linux
• Navigating on the Raspberry Pi
• Setting up VNC
• Sensors in aquaponics
• Data visualisation using Node-RED
• Mini challenge

Term 2

• Creating a web page in HTML
• Adding Cascading Style Sheets to web pages
• Creating dynamic web pages using Python
• 3D printing using TinkerCAD
• Laser cutting using TinkerCAD
• Janefield wetland sensor data using Python and Node-RED
• IBM Cloud Lite and Node-RED for sensor data

Term 3

• Janefield wetland field excursion
• Exploring analog sensors - turbidity sensor
• Bureau of Meteorology weather data
• Exploring soil moisture sensors
• Exploring distance sensors in smart tanks
• Graph data using Python and plotly
• Uploading web site to GitHub Pages

Term 4

• Smart solutions workshop - ideation
• Build a smart bee hive with load sensors
• Smart bee hive with Infra-Red beam sensors
• Build a solar hot water shower with temperature sensor
• Build a tiny energy efficient house with temperature sensor
• Grow tomatoes in pots using soil moisture sensors
• Hot compost and worm farm challenge
• Build a greenhouse to raise seedlings
• Build a GPS Litter Picker
• Smart solution presentation

Sensors

• Temperature sensor
• Pressure sensor
• Soil moisture sensor
• GPS sensor
• Turbidity sensor

Projects

• Water quality sensor
• GPS litter picker
• Smart bee hive
• Veggie garden sensor
• Chicken coop project
• Smart tank with BoM rain farecasts
• Rabbit hutch tiny house
• Urban heat island temperature experiment

The Things Network

• How To Register LoRa WAN Gateways
• How To Register Sensors

Sustainable Computers

• Debian installation on Mac
• Raspberry Pi setup
• Pycom Pygate setup
• Installing Atom on PC or Mac