Turtle Sense/Phase Two - Revision history

Sam: /* People */ Added Erin

2022-03-26T08:56:31Z

People: Added Erin

Sam: /* User Guide */

2022-03-07T09:17:06Z

User Guide

Sam: /* Parts lists */

2022-03-07T09:16:38Z

Parts lists

Sam: /* Assembly Instructions */ User guide

2015-07-06T19:40:26Z

Assembly Instructions: User guide

Sam: no longer future tense

2015-07-06T19:26:00Z

no longer future tense

Sam: /* Parts list */

2014-09-16T02:26:47Z

Parts list

Sam: /* People */ T

2014-09-11T00:24:42Z

People: T

Sam: /* People */ trebor

2014-09-11T00:21:04Z

People: trebor

Sam: /* Embedded code */ GitHub links

2014-08-19T20:35:58Z

Embedded code: GitHub links

Dave: Combine circuit board manufacture into one page

2014-08-16T21:04:09Z

Combine circuit board manufacture into one page

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 *[[User:Tom]] -- Engineering support
 *[[User:Eric]] -- Fundraising / Community liaison
 *[[User:Chuck]] -- Sea Turtle community outreach / Materials
 *[[User:Chris]] -- Web Server Admin
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 *[[User:Britta]] -- National Park Service Biologist
 *[[User:Trebor|User:trebor]] -- Web visualizations
 ==Overview==

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	* [[Turtle Sense nest site installation instructions\|Nest site installation instructions]]		* [[Turtle Sense nest site installation instructions\|Nest site installation instructions]]
	* [[Turtle Sense nest monitoring instructions\|Nest site monitoring instructions]]		* [[Turtle Sense nest monitoring instructions\|Nest site monitoring instructions]]
−	* [[Turtle Sense equipment maintenance instructions\|Equipment maintenance instructions]]

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 * [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26861868/Turtle%20Sense%20Public%20Files/Turtle%20Sense%20Communicator%20PCB%20v.0.25%20--%20Bill%20of%20Materials.xls Turtle Sense Communications board parts]
 * [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26861868/Turtle%20Sense%20Public%20Files/Turtle%20Sense%20Smart%20Sensor%20PCB%20v.0.23a%20--%20Bill%20of%20Materials.xls Turtle Sense Smart Sensor board parts]
 ==Schematics and System design==

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 * [[Turtle Sense communicator PVC housing assembly instructions|Communicator PVC housing assembly instructions]]
 * [[Turtle Sense communicator housing final assembly|Communicator housing final assembly]]
 * [[Turtle Sense nest site installation instructions|Nest site installation instructions]]

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 *[[User:Britta]] -- National Park Service Biologist
 *[[User:Trebor|User:trebor]] -- Web visualizations
-:''[[Turtle Sense/Division of labor|initial discussions about the division of labor]]
 ==Overview==
-When nests are discovered by park personnel, the nests are uncovered, the eggs counted, and a DNA sample is taken.  At that time, a smart sensor the size of a turtle egg will be placed on top of the turtle nest before the excavated sand is filled back in to cover the site.  The smart sensor will measure motion and temperature in the nest, with the hope of being able to determine when hatching is imminent.  The smart sensor is connected to a communications tower which will send out regular reports on the activity in the nest using M2M technology.  The text file reports are FTP'd to a website directly from the communications tower. During Phase Two we created 2 test units, 2 registration units, 12 communications towers and 29 smart sensors for installation in the Outer Banks of North Carolina during the Spring and Summer of 2014. Data will be collected from up to 40 nests, and the data will be analyzed as it is collected to attempt to predict imminent hatching.
+When nests are discovered by park personnel, they are uncovered, the eggs counted, and a DNA sample is taken.  At that time, a smart sensor the size of a turtle egg is placed on top of the turtle nest before the excavated sand is filled back in to cover the site.  The smart sensor measures motion and temperature in the nest, and the data collected is used to predict when hatching is imminent.  The smart sensor is connected to a communications tower which sends out regular reports on the activity in the nest using M2M technology.  The text file reports are FTP'd to a website directly from the communications tower. During Phase Two we created test units, one registration units, 8 communications towers and 24 smart sensors for installation in the Outer Banks of North Carolina startin in the Spring of 2014. Many of the sensors can be used in more than one nest per season, so Data can be collected from roughly 40 nests per season. The data is analyzed as it is collected to attempt to predict imminent hatching.
 ===Commercial options===
-Before proceeding, we researched other commercially available data recording systems to see if anything that would meet our requirements was available.  None of the options we found were low enough power to fit our needs, and none provided the data we were hoping to collect.  The closest matches we found would have required as much or almost as much custom engineering on our part to make it work, and there was no cost benefit to going that route.
+Before developing the system, other commercially available data recording systems were evaluated to see if anything that would meet our requirements was available.  None of the options we found were not low enough power to fit our needs, and none provided the data we were hoping to collect.  The closest matches we found would have required as much or almost as much custom engineering on our part to make it work, and there was no cost benefit to going that route.
 *[[Chuck's research on data recorders]]

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 *[https://github.com/NerdsWithoutBorders/TurtleSense-HandHeld-communicator Registration unit embedded code]
-==Parts list==
+==Parts lists==
-* [[Turtle Sense Communications board parts]]
+* [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26861868/Turtle%20Sense%20Public%20Files/Turtle%20Sense%20Communicator%20PCB%20v.0.25%20--%20Bill%20of%20Materials.xls Turtle Sense Communications board parts]
-* [[Turtle Sense Smart Sensor board parts]]
+* [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26861868/Turtle%20Sense%20Public%20Files/Turtle%20Sense%20Smart%20Sensor%20PCB%20v.0.23a%20--%20Bill%20of%20Materials.xls Turtle Sense Smart Sensor board parts]
 * [[Turtle Sense Other parts]]

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 *[[User:Mark]] -- Web Application Development
 *[[User:Britta]] -- National Park Service Biologist
+*[[User:trebor]] -- Web visualizations
 :''[[Turtle Sense/Division of labor|initial discussions about the division of labor]]

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 The code is fully documented and can be seen on GITHUB:
-*[ Smart Sensor embedded code]
+*[https://github.com/NerdsWithoutBorders/Turtle-Sense-Smart-Sensor Smart Sensor embedded code]
-*[ Communications tower embedded code]
+*[https://github.com/NerdsWithoutBorders/TurtleSense-Comm-Head Communications tower embedded code]
-*[ Registration unit embedded code]
+*[https://github.com/NerdsWithoutBorders/TurtleSense-HandHeld-communicator Registration unit embedded code]
 ==Parts list==

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 ==Circuit Board Fabrication==
 * [[Turtle Sense -- Manufacturing the Communicator and Smart Sensor printed circuit boards|Manufacturing the Communicator and Smart Sensor printed circuit boards]]
 ==Assembly Instructions==