We are building an electronic parabolic solar hot water heater. We hope to be able to sell it one of these days so we'd like to be able to have some sort of temperature tracking to give to the client.
We were thinking of using a Raspi and a digital wire temp sensor and make the recordings on the smart card in the Raspi. Since we are also using a sun seeker circuit to locate the position of the sun and to drive the motor, we thought "Why not try and combine the two, leaving just the LEDs for detection?".
Here is a link to more info on our project, with photos, etc.
http://www.appropedia.org/Parabolic_Solar_Hot_Water_Heater
We were hoping to be able to drive by the client's plant like once a month and d/l the file from the Raspi, take it home, put it up on the web and send the client an email w/the link. This drive-by is sort of necessary bec. here in Mexico we never know if the computer will be on all the time, whether the secretary will come in in the morning, etc., etc. i suppose we could invest in some sort of telephone setup where the phone would call home once a month, but we'd have to set up some sort of yearly maintaince with the client and include these costs, too. Since i'm not very electronically oriented, i'd rather take it a litle bit at a time.
Anyway, any ideas would be helpful and if you need any more info, let us know.
Have a great afternoon!
We were thinking of using a Raspi and a digital wire temp sensor and make the recordings on the smart card in the Raspi. Since we are also using a sun seeker circuit to locate the position of the sun and to drive the motor, we thought "Why not try and combine the two, leaving just the LEDs for detection?".
Here is a link to more info on our project, with photos, etc.
http://www.appropedia.org/Parabolic_Solar_Hot_Water_Heater
We were hoping to be able to drive by the client's plant like once a month and d/l the file from the Raspi, take it home, put it up on the web and send the client an email w/the link. This drive-by is sort of necessary bec. here in Mexico we never know if the computer will be on all the time, whether the secretary will come in in the morning, etc., etc. i suppose we could invest in some sort of telephone setup where the phone would call home once a month, but we'd have to set up some sort of yearly maintaince with the client and include these costs, too. Since i'm not very electronically oriented, i'd rather take it a litle bit at a time.
Anyway, any ideas would be helpful and if you need any more info, let us know.
Have a great afternoon!