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== [[Smart Cities 2022]] ==
== [[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 ==
== Sensors ==

Revision as of 10:30, 19 December 2021

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

Sensors

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