By Gustell Preston, Noah Johnson, Stephanie Cheng and Shreya Bansal Acknowledgement This project would not come to fruition without the invaluable mentorship and support of our instructor, Professor Allison Lassiter, and our peers in the CPLN571 Sensing the City class (Spring 2023). We are grateful to have our idea published. Overview This is an interactive […]
Overview In this tutorial, we will show you how to connect an Arduino UNO R3 with an ESP8266 WiFi module mounted on an ESP-01 adapter. We will also explain the steps for setting up a new channel on ThingSpeak and how to write data on the channel. This tutorial is suitable for beginners who want […]
Learn how to wire and code a basic DIY button-triggered thermometer that can measure and display temperature readings from an MLX90614 IR temperature sensor on an LCD screen To make the thermometer you will need to integrate 3 individual components, a button, IR temperature sensor, and an LCD display. First, you will set up a […]
Overview This is one of the tutorial for the project ‘Smart Parking Philadelphia’, which is aiming to provide real-time parking information for the drivers in Philadelphia to help them make the decision more easily for parking in Center City. In this tutorial, the induction loop will be introduced which is responsible for counting the vehicles […]
Team: Saffron Livaccari, Jie Wang, Jiali Yao, Yebei Yao Background In 1940, the Delaware River was one of the most polluted in the nation. A dream of a clean river seemed terribly hopeless, as one EPA official stated in 1973 that the Delaware River may never be fishable (Kauffman Jr., 2010). Although hopes were low, […]
Local-scale Stormwater Inlet Monitoring System Aaron Katz, Jie Li, Zoe Kerrich Overview LoSIMS, a local-scale stormwater infrastructure monitoring system, provides an opportunity to address street flooding with a low-cost, distributed sensor network implemented in stormwater inlets across Philadelphia. Philadelphia has significant problems with stormwater management – and the city chose over a decade ago to […]