Microbiology of the built environment and building science
Sensor design and coding
- Fritzing (board design)
- How and why to write libraries for Arduino
Time keeping, data logging, and sensor networks
- TomWare Arduino-Ethernet Datalogger (time drift issues)
- Nuigarduino – Arduino + Ethernet Shield + Motion Sensor + Temperature Sensor + Google App Engine = Data Logger
- JeeLabs: JeeNodes – introduction to physical computing and wireless sensor networks
- MicroSD card problems – reliability issues with various brands
Temperature and other indoor environmental measurements
- Choosing a temperature data logger: 5 things you need to know, Onset HOBO Data Loggers
- O’Reilly Data Sensing Lab
- Measuring sunlight: build your own pyranometer
- Martinez et al. 2009. A new and inexpensive pyrometer for the visible spectral range. Sensors 9, 4615-4634
- Building an open source Nest thermostat, Spark.io
Inexpensive air quality sensors
- Final workshop materials, Air Sensors 2013 (EPA workshop)
- UPOD Mobile Sensing Technology
- Sensordrone sensors
- How Much Snow ardunio air quality sensor testing
- Budde et al. 2012. Investigating the use of commodity dust sensors for the embedded measurement of particulate matter. IEEE Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS)
- DustDuino – mental munition
Wireless and Internet communications
- Adafruit CC3000 WiFi breakout with onboard ceramic antenna
- Tinaja Labs: Raspberry Pi as an Xbee wireless sensor network gateway
- Installing the NEST thermostat [Infograph]
HVAC sensors
- Arduino Knock: piezo element to detect vibration
- Freescale 2 kPa differential pressure sensors
- Allsensors.com configurable pressure sensors
Low power Arduino and other advanced power links
- Low power custom Arduino sensor board (Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots)
- Arduino Sensor Network (Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots)
- Hardware and Firmware Issues in using Ultra-low power MCUs
- How to run an Arduino (clone) on a 9V battery for weeks or even months, Hardware Startup
- How to run an Arduino (clone) on (AA) batteries for over a year: Part 2, Hardware Startup
- How to build a $5 Arduino (clone), Hardware Startup
- How to run an Arduino for years on a battery, Open Home Automation
- ‘Low power’ posts from JeeLabs
- Operating an Arduino for a year from batteries, Alan Mitchell
- Adventures in low power land, Sparkfun
- Self-powered wireless sensors for monitoring the electric power grid, Igor Paprotny
- Battery Guide by Michael Bluejay
Internet of Things (IoT)
- mbientlab: wearable devices solution
- opensensors.io: operation system for IoT
- Contiki: open source operation system for IoT
- Watteco: next-gen wireless IP sensors for IoT
- smarthomatic: open source home automation system
- Smart Citizen
- Air quality sensor setup (staceyk)
- Spark core OS for cloud-connected things
