How many ODINs do you need to change a lightbulb?
That's a trick question, I haven't told you what ODINs are!
Well, ODIN stands for Outdoor Dust Information Node and it is the name of our low-cost outdoor dust sensor. You may ask why not calling it "low-cost outdoor sensor" to which I would respond: for the same reason that Apple doesn't call their phones "high-cost shiny communication devices". A lot goes in a name and I believe that for a project to be successful it needs a good name.
So, as strange as it sounds, we have a Norse god gathering data for us.
The sensors themselves are rather simple. At the heart of the ODIN is an optical dust sensor that, together with a temperature and relative humidity sensor and a clock send data to a microcontroller which saves it on a micro-SD card. The ODIN is battery operated and it can run unattended for two months on a full 6Ah LiPo battery.
A more in depth description of the ODIN and the results of the first tests can be found here:
ODIN - Discussion document
And here are six ODINs in their co-location test for their Rangiora deployment... not quite changing a lightbulb (LED nowadays) but hoping to help us change the kind of information we are able to communicate with the public.
Well, ODIN stands for Outdoor Dust Information Node and it is the name of our low-cost outdoor dust sensor. You may ask why not calling it "low-cost outdoor sensor" to which I would respond: for the same reason that Apple doesn't call their phones "high-cost shiny communication devices". A lot goes in a name and I believe that for a project to be successful it needs a good name.
So, as strange as it sounds, we have a Norse god gathering data for us.
The sensors themselves are rather simple. At the heart of the ODIN is an optical dust sensor that, together with a temperature and relative humidity sensor and a clock send data to a microcontroller which saves it on a micro-SD card. The ODIN is battery operated and it can run unattended for two months on a full 6Ah LiPo battery.
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| Simplified schematics of ODIN (left) and an actual ODIN (right) with its internal components visible. |
A more in depth description of the ODIN and the results of the first tests can be found here:
ODIN - Discussion document
And here are six ODINs in their co-location test for their Rangiora deployment... not quite changing a lightbulb (LED nowadays) but hoping to help us change the kind of information we are able to communicate with the public.
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