Sponsored By: Edward Crow
Team Members
Devin N Rizzo | Ryan Gorka | Fidel Bahati | |
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Project Summary
Overview
This project remotely monitors pump current draw, physical system sound, Flow meter vibration and flow rate. all system data will be presented for the user to view on a website where all data is updated remotely
Objectives
The objective of this project is to create an integrated monitoring system which is designed to monitor for faults in a flow loop system. For this project we will be creating a system of sensors which will be utilizing an Arduino UNO which will handle all coding and data conversion and then on the computers end, the data will be sent to a webpage we have designed where users can view or download all collected data.
Approach
For this project, the points of interest for this project will be to monitor the flow loops water pump, the physical noise of the loop and the loops flow meter. To accomplish this, we are monitoring the pumps current draw which is rated to draw 8 Amps of current, for the flow meter we are looking at the flow meters vibration and its flow rate (Gallons per minute). We have designed this project to use and accelerometer in order to monitor the frequency of the vibration output, and in order to get the frequency of the vibration a Fast Fourier Transform algorithm (FFT) must be performed to turn the vibrations sine wave into a frequency value, which will then be displayed as a magnitude versus frequency plot. The current sensor is designed to simply monitor the current draw through no complicated algorithms and be displayed as time versus current value plot. For monitoring the flow meters flow rate, we have attached wired to the meters pulse output connection and we run it through a code which will then give a flow rate which will be presented as a plot which shows flow rated over time. For the microphone we have designed a code which takes the raw signal of the sound which then converts it into a sound file which will be saved in an SD card which those files can then be set to the webpage where it can be viewed a playable sound file.
Outcomes
How data is presented:
- on Webpage data center
- Audio files for physical noise
- Vibration Frequency graphs
- Current draw graphs
- Flow rate data graphs
Website is able to show all presented data and all data is updated accordingly
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