Next generation of scientists Comment
Sensorpedia intern Ashley is featured in this Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) student intern video. “Are you ready to join us at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as part of the next generation of scientists?”
A lesson learned… again Comment
In many ways, it was just another day of class. But as I sat there awaiting the final exam of my first graduate computer science course, Advanced Algorithm Analysis and Design, I wondered if my studies had prepared me to succeed at this level. Most of the students surrounding me were PhD students, and their [...]
Sensorpedia highlighted in Sensors Magazine article 1 Comment
I’m happy to announce that an article about Sensorpedia has been published by Sensors Magazine. I’d like to thank my co-author Scott Fairgrieve of Northrop Grumman for his input and development of a translation tool to simplify the registration of standards-based sensor systems that use the OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) Interface Standard. Watch for [...]
More than data Comment
There’s a trend occuring right now where people are interested in collating sensor data and providing a nice Web 2.0 interface. I can count several projects besides Sensorpedia, including: Sensorbase (CENS), Sensormap (MSR), and Sensor.Networks (Sun). Sensorbase provides a nice interface to construct and query relational tables, while Sensor.Networks provide a nice interface to interact [...]
Discovering new sensor data Comment
While David has been working hard on Sensorpedia’s infrastructure, I’ve been thinking about different ways to automate the process of identifying, tagging, and extracting sensor data from the internet. This would be handy for several reasons. 1) we wouldn’t have to spend valuable human time performing a relatively mundane task and 2) having a sensor [...]
Introductions Comment
Hello everybody! I’m new here (three weeks in Knoxville!) and I just wanted to introduce myself to the Sensorpedia community. I just started working at Oak Ridge National Lab in the Data Systems Sciences & Engineering group and will be involved with various Sensorpedia-related projects. Before arriving here, I was doing post-doctoral work at the [...]
Sensorpedia Sneak Peek 1 Comment
Sensorpedia is still in a limited beta testing phase, but we’re happy to announce a new Sneak Peek at the application. We’d love to hear your thoughts on our progress so far. The Sneak Peek provides read-only access for non-beta users to search and explore the data currently in Sensorpedia. Contribution of data is currently [...]
Thank You Chris! Comment
This was the last week of Christopher Tomkins-Tinch’s current co-op rotation here at ORNL. Chris played a vital role in the design and development of Sensorpedia (and several other related projects). We can’t thank him enough for his hard work and endless supply of great ideas. We wish him the best this semester at Rochester [...]
How To: Interface an irradiance sensor with Sensorpedia (guide 4) 3 Comments
We have previously detailed how to read in an LM34 temperature sensor, an ultrasonic rangefinder, and a light color sensor. This guide will show how to interface with a TSL230 light-to-frequency converter.
How To: Interface a light color sensor with Sensorpedia and serve Atom! (guide 3) 5 Comments
We have previously documented how to interface two sensors: an LM34 temperature and a Maxbotix-EZ distance with Sensorpedia. For this guide we will be switching things up a bit. Instead of using a Make Controller to communicate with sensors, we will be using another popular DIY/tinkerer microcontroller: the Arduino (duemilanove). Instead of pushing our data [...]