Today Kai Staats, project lead for SIMOC, provided the development team with a new User Story to guide redevelopment of the SIMOC Live “stand-alone” unit composed of a Raspberry Pi Zero, one or more Adafruit sensors, and an on-board DHCP server and web interface.
THE STORY
User desires to employ SIMOC Live to monitor air quality in a remote location, far from an urban environment where grid power, cell reception, and radio wifi are not available.User has deployed multiple units, but the distance between them is too great or obstacles inhibit a mesh network.
a) User will physically visit the field site once per [month, quarter, year].
b) Power is provided to the SIMOC Live unit via [solar, wind, portable battery pack, generator].
c) All data must be stored locally, on-board the SIMOC Live unit.
User returns to each unit, one at a time in succession, to view and/or download data.
If included, an on-board OLED screen provides current status of each primary data collection channel for each sensor. For example, …
