Inspiration
We use electrical energy all the time in our daily lives. Everything from the lighting in our homes, offices and streets, cooking food, to our computers and internet, pretty much everything in our daily lives use electricity. Due to the (fairly) recent emergence of new technology, our power consumption has grown substantially and so has the energy production to keep up with that demand. This energy is a precious resource that is vital to the modern society. Currently, there are a lot of places in the world that use non-renewable energy resources to generate electricity. Being able to control and use this energy effectively will lower the carbon footprint of those places until they find a way to use/develop new technology or switch to renewable energy sources.
What it does
Can efficiently and effectively manage our power consumption
How we built it
Team collaboration with one person working on the hardware and the other
Challenges we ran into
Time constraint due to school and hardware implementation
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Hardware configuration
What we learned
Teamwork, new GUI design tools, database management, hardware-software communication
What's next for HydroSense
A possible expansion for our project is to implement a software-controlled switch to turn things on or off (probably using a relay) whenever the device is not in use or to be used with some kind of routine.
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