Phidgets for Monitoring Building Performance and Occupant Behaviour
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Phidgets makes a variety of sensors and controllers that connect to computers through USB. It's easy to develop applications in a variety of programming languages. As architects begin to look at green building strategies, Phidgets can be used to monitor building performance and occupant behaviour, leading to better building design and energy efficiency.
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Phidgets for Monitoring Building Performance and Occupant Behaviour
- 1. Phidgets for Monitoring Building Performance and Occupant Behaviour Presented by Phidgets Inc July 16th, 2014
- 2. Phidgets for Monitoring ● What Phidgets are ● How Phidgets have been used for monitoring ● What you can monitor ● How to collect data ● Questions
- 4. What Phidgets Are ● sensors and controllers ● connect to a computer through USB ● come with a robust API ● easy to develop applications in a number of programming languages
- 5. How Phidgets Have Been Used ● SARI® is a technological tool for precision agriculture through in-situ sensors It is able to perform calculations that allow the detection and management of three key phenomena in the life cycle of any crop: water stress, frost and fire.
- 6. How Phidgets Have Been Used ● The Community Seismic Network at CalTech facilitates the block-by-block collection of ground motion intensity data before, during, and after earthquakes, using inexpensive accelerometers.
- 7. How Phidgets Have Been Used ● We have set up our own monitoring devices to watch temperature, motion, and even bathroom supplies
- 8. What You Can Monitor ● More than 100 different sensors: o Distance o Gas Pressure o Light o Sound o Motion o pH o Temperature o Humidity o Touch o Proximity o Current o Voltage o RFID o Magnets o Switches o Acceleration
- 9. How to Collect Data ● Phidgets has excellent operating system support for: o Windows o Mac o Linux o iOS o Android
- 10. How to Collect Data ● And Phidgets libraries are available for a variety of popular programming languages: o C/C++ o Java o Python o Visual Basic o Cocoa o LabView o and more...
- 11. How to Collect Data ● To start, hook up some Phidgets sensors to an interface kit ● Download code examples ● Modify the examples or write your own program ● Compile and run the program
- 12. Questions... Kat Dornian Project Outreach, Phidgets Inc kat@phidgets.com Brian Burley Support, Phidgets Inc support@phidgets.com 403-282-7335
Editor's Notes
- I’m Kat and I work at Phidgets as the project outreach developer I’m going to be showing you what Phidgets are today and how they can be used in responsive, adaptive architecture to monitor environments. I know nothing about architecture, but hopefully you get the idea Who’s heard of Phidgets before? Okay, what do you know about them? How many of you are architects? How many know some programming or coding? Okay, what languages do you know, just shout them out.
- So, this is going to be really basic because we have less than half an hour I’m going to just touch on what phdigets are and how you can use them for monitoring and then you can ask questions at the end, if you have any, and we can get more specific
- First, let’s talk about what Phidgets are. To do that for me I’m going to show you this video.
- sensors and controllers sensors are like temperature sensors or motion sensors controllers are what interface the sensors or motors, which we also sell, to the computer connect to a computer through USB comes with a robust API plug in, write a simple program and you’ll have something to play with in under 15 minutes easy to develop applications in a number of programming languages
- Sari is a system for monitoring crops, developed in Brazil. It uses Phidgets sensors in the box and alerts farmers to any disasters. It has helped farmers to optimize their water and electricity consumption in the fields, as well as respond quickly to frost and fire hazards.
- CalTech gives these encased Phidgets accelerometers to volunteers in the greater Pasadena region of Southern California. They are constantly monitoring for vibrations so that when there’s an earthquake, emergency responders to prioritize dispatch
- At the offices here we monitor sound, humidity, temperature, light, motion, the bathroom doors and we use a scale with one of our load cells to measure the stock of toilet paper. One of our employees has a bunch of Phidgets at his home to monitor temperature, humidity and power usage around his house. In both cases we use some third-party software to graph the data.
- So, that’s a few examples but we have 100 different sensors... Lots and lots of ways to apply Phidgets to your projects Sensors come in various degrees of sensitivity as well
- Exit slideshow, show a Phidget interface Hook up some Phidgets sensors to the interface kit. The I/O boards like the 1018 PhidgetInterfaceKit 8/8/8 or 1011 PhidgetInterfaceKit 2/2/2 will have to connect directly to a computer. But, we have a Single Board Computer that can run without being connected to a PC. Download the code examples for the language you’re comfortable working in (show on the website where the code is) You can use the Phidgets preference pane (on apple) or control panel (on windows) to make sure your Phidgets are connected, but you’ll have to modify the example code, or write you own program from scratch to get it to do anything useful. The API manual is available on the website to give you all the available function calls for the Phidgets You can respond to events immediately, for instance a motion sensor triggering a light, or you can collect data over time in a database TUTORIALS for getting started on our youtube channel Basically, Phidgets are reliable hardware that make it easy for people to connect computers to the real world with just a little bit of code.