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 with temperature sensor
• Build a greenhouse to raise seedlings with temperature sensor
• Build a GPS Litter Picker
• Smart solution presentation