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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.

Smart Cities 2021

• 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 creating dashboards

Sensors

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

School projects

• Water quality sensor
• GPS litter picker
• Walk to School GPS tracker
• Smart bee hive
• Veggie garden sensor
• Chicken coop sensor project
• Smart tank with BoM rain farecasts
• Rabbit hutch tiny house
• Composting toilet for rabbits
• Urban heat island temperature experiment
• Solar shower temperature sensor project
• Native grassland restoration
• Pollinator friendly native garden
• Small bird attracting native garden

The Things Network

• Pycom Pygate setup
• How To Register Sensors on The Things Network

Sustainable Computers

• Debian installation on Mac
• Raspberry Pi setup
• Installing Atom on PC or Mac
• Using MediaWiki - the same software that runs Wikipedia
• Essential software
• Node-RED installation