Logbook

This is your logbook. Insert here all relevant information regarding the evolution of your project

In this week we started to get to know each other. We were also assigned to a group and started to think and choose one of the projects. We made the dicision that we will work on the Level/Weight Monitoring System for a Waste Oil Storage Tank.

In this week we started to search for information about the project we will be working on.We also had some group meetings. We worked on the following points.

• Search for sensors, gsm/gps modul,
• we had a meeting with Prof. Nidia
• we began to write the report
• we made a first test with the sensor
• we creat our task list and make the gantt chart

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1. Presentation
2. Modus operandi
3. Project proposal
4. Electronic Logbook

1) About the oil tank
2) About the main controller
3) About the sensors
4) Communication 
5) Power source
6) Local interface
7) Data acquisition
8) Container

We have asked some questions about our project and we got some ideas. They gave us some recommendations on how to approach the problem.We also try to explain how we will go on. The supervisors gave as some points to think about. Look at the List below.

• Information about the container (the waste oil is in bottels, there are diffrent typ of containers)
• Study the diffrent types of sensors (range of sensors, communication, price,use one voltage)
• Local interface
• Konfiguration ( because of the diffrent type of containers)
• Think about the logistic
• Load Cells

1) Power supply
2) The problem of the bottles all in one side

In this Meeting we talk about

1.)Power Supply

• make a table of pro an contra, which power supply is better
• Solar Panales, Battery (Low Cell Discharge rate)

2.)Problem with the bottles

• we get the information, that it will be enough to know, that the container is almost full
• We should try to find a local seller for our sensor

3.)Container

• One Option is to design a new container

4.)Materials

• make detailed list of materials we are going to buy

1) About the battery types.
2) About the arduino (atmega) sleep mode and voltage regulator consumption vs atmega standalone chip.
3) About the local interface.
4) Communication shield and pins used.
5) Marketing
6) Web interface

* We should make an item list for the next meeting. * The arduino mini as an alternative for low power consumption.

1) Marketing
2)
3) Web interface

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