Is this project an undergraduate, graduate, or faculty project?
Undergraduate
Project Type
group
Campus
Daytona Beach
Authors' Class Standing
Jacob Gambrill, Senior Aroh Barjatya, Professor Shantanab Debchoudhury, Post-Doc Robert Clayton, Post-Doc Joshua Milford, Graduate Student Nathan Graves, Graduate Student
Lead Presenter's Name
Jacob Gambrill
Lead Presenter's College
DB College of Arts and Sciences
Faculty Mentor Name
Aroh Barjatya
Abstract
This project intends to create a distributed array of energy self-sufficient sensor suites that can store data locally for one week as well as have a networked capability to stream data to a home station. The proof-of-concept sensor suite will be composed of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver, accelerometer, and magnetometer to validate the system. As a secondary objective, GNSS data will be analyzed to gather Total Electron Content (TEC) from the propagation of GNSS signals through the ionosphere to the ground-based packages containing the sensor suite. A power source sufficient to continuously power all on board instrumentation is included in each package. The sensor suite is also equipped with Wi-Fi or Ethernet capabilities so that it is able to transmit data. Additionally the system is compartmentalized such that each package containing the power system, sensor suite, and communications is mass producible and mostly plug-n-play. This includes using COTS items to facilitate rapid fabrication. The system needs to be scalable up to 100 packages and data from all these packages should be saved locally and/or transmitted to a central server.
Did this research project receive funding support (Spark, SURF, Research Abroad, Student Internal Grants, Collaborative, Climbing, or Ignite Grants) from the Office of Undergraduate Research?
No
Wireless Array for Measuring Total Electron Content
This project intends to create a distributed array of energy self-sufficient sensor suites that can store data locally for one week as well as have a networked capability to stream data to a home station. The proof-of-concept sensor suite will be composed of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver, accelerometer, and magnetometer to validate the system. As a secondary objective, GNSS data will be analyzed to gather Total Electron Content (TEC) from the propagation of GNSS signals through the ionosphere to the ground-based packages containing the sensor suite. A power source sufficient to continuously power all on board instrumentation is included in each package. The sensor suite is also equipped with Wi-Fi or Ethernet capabilities so that it is able to transmit data. Additionally the system is compartmentalized such that each package containing the power system, sensor suite, and communications is mass producible and mostly plug-n-play. This includes using COTS items to facilitate rapid fabrication. The system needs to be scalable up to 100 packages and data from all these packages should be saved locally and/or transmitted to a central server.