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Revision as of 06:29, 18 October 2022
This web site is an experiment with local students, residents and public agencies to see if participative governance and more open information sharing between agencies can promote healthier waterways in the Whittlesea municipality. In a low carbon and resource constrained future we will all need to explore better methods of engagement and knowledge sharing to protect our communities and the natural environment.
Smart Cities 2021
The Smart Cities course was offered to students in 2021 at the Whittlesea Tech School. Click on individual lessons below.
- Navigation on the Raspberry Pi
- Security improvements on the Raspberry Pi
- HTML coding
- Adding style to an HTML page using CSS
- Python introduction
- Reading data from an atmospheric sensor
- Saving sensor data to a file
- Saving data with timestamps
- Creating a Dynamic web page
- Scheduling tasks using Cron
- Graphing data using Plotly
- Creating HTML links to Plotly graphs
- More CSS coding
- Requesting data from a Water Quality Sensor in Peter Hopper lake
- Node-RED introduction
- Node-RED data processing
- Node-RED data processing II
- Node-RED creating dashboards
Smart Cities 2022
Term 1
- Smart Cities - What is a Sustainable Smart City?
- Smart Cities - How can we use Environmental Sensors?
- Smart Cities - How to protect the Platypus?
- Smart Cities - Introduction to the Raspberry Pi and Linux
- Smart Cities - First lesson in Python
- Smart Cities - Reading data from Environmental Sensors in an Aquarium
- Smart Cities - Setting up Aquarium sensor in Tech School
- Smart Cities - Getting to 1 tonne per person by 2030
Term 2
- Smart Cities - Data Visualisation using the Node-RED dashboard
- Smart Cities - Soldering a Water level sensor
- Smart Cities - Introduction to soldering electronics
- Smart Cities - Retrieving live sensor data using MQTT and Node-RED
- Smart Cities - Use Tinkercad to design components for an Environmental sensor
- Smart Cities - BirdNET-Pi Project
- Smart Cities - Storing sensor data in a Database in Node-RED
- Smart Cities - TeamViewer to access the Raspberry Pi remotely
- Raspberry Pi 4 - Adding an SSD to improve performance and longevity
Term 3
- Smart Cities - Wetland excursion to Janefield wetlands
- Smart Cities - Exploring analog sensors - turbidity sensor
- Smart Cities - Getting weather data from the Bureau of Meteorology
- Smart Cities - Learn to build and use a Soil moisture sensor
- Smart Cities - Learn to use a distance sensor to measure rainwater tank levels
- Smart Cities - Using Plotly and Python to graph data
- Smart Cities - Customising web sites for mobile devices
- Smart Cities - Adding a Drop Down Menu to a web site
Term 4
- Smart Cities - Discussion about other Smart City Solutions
- Smart Cities - Using data to bring about Change
- Smart Cities - Build a Smart Bee Hive using load sensors
- Smart Cities - Build a Smart Bee Hive using Infra-Red beam sensors
- Smart Cities - Build a Solar hot water shower with a LoRa temperature sensor
- Smart Cities - Build a tiny energy efficient house with a LoRa temperature sensor
- Smart Cities - Grow tomato plants in pots using a LoRa soil moisture sensor
- Smart Cities - Build a hot greenhouse to raise seedlings
- Smart Cities - Build a LoRa GPS litter picker
Sensors
Instructions on how to build individual sensors that can be used in school environmental monitoring projects.
- Temperature sensor
- Pressure sensor
- Distance sensor
- Infra-red beam sensor
- Soil moisture sensor
- GPS sensor
- Turbidity sensor
- Water quality sensor
- Water quality sensor Carlingford Park Lake
- APIs for Water quality sensors
- URLs for Water quality sensors
- APIs for Water levels sensors Minnovation
Student projects
- PyCom Setup
- Downloads & Resources
- Google Dashboard Documentation
- Data Visualisation with Freeboard.io
- techschool-temp-sensor
The Things Network
- Pycom Pygate setup
- How To Register Pycom LoRa Sensors on The Things Network
Sustainable Computers
Transition Engineering
- How can Transition Engineering keep global temperature rise below 1.5degC?
- What is a sustainable computer and should schools be advocating for them?
- Why chickens and rabbits are a smart choice for managing food waste and stopping GHG emissions from landfill.
- Bikes and public transport are much better than electric cars.
- Smart tanks protect waterways and capture water for local food production
- Solar hot water is the natural way to heat water and reduce GHG emissions
- Growing food at school and at home lowers GHG emissions. Why?
- Bees and other pollinators are vital for food production. Learn how to plant a pollinator garden
- Learn how to build a solar PV system with battery storage for a Tiny House.
- What appliances can run on solar PV system when the sun shines?
- How much energy does your house use?
- How to calculate the energy efficiency of your house. What are R and U values?
- Are personal headlamps the future of energy efficient lighting?
- Composting toilets save water, stop ocean pollution and recycle nutrients back to your garden.
- Garden like a Nonno and Nonna knows best by Jaclyn Crumpi to read about real sustainability.
Simplicity
- Urban Food Production
- The Simplicity Institute - Affiliated with The University of Melbourne
- Happen Films Stories for a Changing World