MicroClimate

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Inspiration

Melbourne, Florida is famous for its beautiful beaches but recently red tide has been plaguing the waters and endangering native flora and fauna. If the Melbourne community had access to climate data sensors the red tide could have been foreseen! Up river, fertilizer factories were dispensing waste into the water increasing the phosphorus and nitrogen density. If local citizens utilized devices that monitored climate data the way our product does climate disaster could have been at the very least planned for if not prevented.

What it does

We are MicroClimate and we have developed a framework of prototype hardware which has sensors to record environmental data, including water quality, air quality and ambient environment data for the purpose of personal and community driven micro-level climate data collection and utilization.

How we built it

We used 4 different probes/sensors: TDS Sensor(oxygen, nitrogen), water temp probe, turbidity sensor(detects how clear the sensor is), pH probe(detects pH of water), water level sensor, DHT11 microcontroller (air temp + humidity), microcontroller ESP32 board, power source