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Lab Work Week 5.2 - Data Capture Scenarios

Student Aston Lamport is completing an assignment for their SIT123 Data Capture Technologies course. The assignment involves investigating two data capture scenarios and proposing solutions using a sense-think-act paradigm. The first scenario involves helping a student named John monitor the moisture levels of two plants on his balcony to determine individual watering needs. The proposed solution uses soil moisture sensors to sense moisture levels, compares the data to parameters to determine when to water in the thinking stage, and uses LED lights to indicate watering needs in the acting stage. The second scenario involves three students comparing their cycling routes and times to find opportunities to ride together. The proposed solution uses phone GPS to sense location and time data, compares the students'

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Lab Work Week 5.2 - Data Capture Scenarios

Student Aston Lamport is completing an assignment for their SIT123 Data Capture Technologies course. The assignment involves investigating two data capture scenarios and proposing solutions using a sense-think-act paradigm. The first scenario involves helping a student named John monitor the moisture levels of two plants on his balcony to determine individual watering needs. The proposed solution uses soil moisture sensors to sense moisture levels, compares the data to parameters to determine when to water in the thinking stage, and uses LED lights to indicate watering needs in the acting stage. The second scenario involves three students comparing their cycling routes and times to find opportunities to ride together. The proposed solution uses phone GPS to sense location and time data, compares the students'

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Student name: Aston Lamport

Student ID: 221246829

SIT123: Data Capture Technologies


Lab Work Week 5.2: Data Capture Scenarios (30
marks)
In this task you will investigate two scenarios that involve capturing data and making inferences
based in the data.
You can use similar ideas for your project.

Due Date Friday 5:00pm, 3rd September 2021

Pre-requisites: You must do the following before this task

1. Attend Class (Lecture) & Seminar


2. Read this sheet from top to bottom

Task Objective
Read the project ideas given below and consider their requirements

Scenario 1:
John has two plants on the balcony of his house. These plants require constant attention and
caring. He has to water them when they require and make sure the soil moisture is kept at
optimum levels. Otherwise the plants will not be in good shape and may not survive. John has
become very busy these days and with his age it is hard for him to keep record and remember
when to water the plants. He is looking for a smart solution to notify him when the plants need to
be watered. Such a solution needs to provide a notification using an LED light connected to the
pot to indicate when the soil moisture is below and over a certain limit. In addition, John also
wants to find out if both plants require the same amount of water, or if he should be watering
them different levels.
Note: Assume that both plants are planted in identical pots, using identical potting mix.

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Scenario 2:
Jane, Megan and Kim are university students who enjoy cycling. Since they live in different
suburbs, they usually cycle on their own, and not together. They think that it will be interesting to
compare where they’ve been cycling. They want to see if they can find out some common areas
and times to cycle together, based on things like distance, elevation, day of the week and times
of the day.

Task Submission Details


There are 8 questions in this task. Answer all of them in this word document itself and submit to
unit site.

Q1: Propose a solution to the problem given in Scenario 1, using the


Sense-Think-Act paradigm. Give an overview of your proposed
solution, and outline its Sense-Think-Act requirements.
 (5 marks)
The soil moisture would sense the level of moisture in the soil. The soil level would be collected
in a spreadsheet to possibly learn the frequency when the plant needs watering. In the thinking
section the moisture level is checked against the parameter given for the lower and upper level
of moisture that is recommended and when it goes outside of the level it acts on the LED to turn
on, if above it turns on green and below the level it turns on red, when in range the LED is off.
Each plant would have their own sensor and LED and the collected data would be stored in a
way that identifies each plant individually, extrapolation can then be done after enough data is
collected to identify intervals between the light being turned on from the off state to see if it is a
consistent pattern.

Q2: Propose a solution to the problem given in Scenario 2, using the


Sense-Think-Act paradigm. Give an overview of your proposed
solution, and outline its Sense-Think-Act requirements.
(5 marks)
Sensing would be down through a location tracker collects their elevation, GPS and the date
and time which the data is collected at. The thinking would be the collecting of the data and
comparing it against the other students data and the act would be to notify the users if there is
overlap between location cycled and when they cycled through the area which they would have
crossed paths. They could then change the time they road that day as to overlap paths at the
same time as one of the other students and take the same path for as long as it overlapped.

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Q3: What kinds of hardware do you think can be used to solve the
problem in scenario 1?
(3 marks)
As listed the hardware needed would be a soil moisture and LED as well as an Arduino to
process the data.

Q4: What kinds of hardware do you think can be used to solve the
problem in scenario 2?
(3 marks)
A phone with a GPS tracking software installed would be the only hardware needed to track all
the data they needed.

Q5: Think of a data collection approach to be used in Scenario 1.


a) What things can result in ‘dirty data’ in this case?
When the plant is watered, and the sensor comes in contact with the water the moisture
level will spike very high even though the soil may not be very saturated.

b) What can you do to clean the data?


Values that are null or above a certain parameter (too high of a value) can be
ignored/deleted from the system.
(4 marks)

Q6: Think of a data collection approach to be used in Scenario 2.


a) What things can result in ‘dirty data’ in this case?
Dirty data might result from the GPS signal be picking the wrong location or a null value
such as when going through a tunnel with poor reception.
b) What can you do to clean the data?
To clean the data any null values would be deleted and you could have a parameter that
sees if you go off the road to delete it or if the speed to get between the 2 points over the
timespan the location was wrong is above a certain plausible speed to delete that data.
(4 marks)

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Q7: Propose some ways to extend your proposed solution for
scenario 1.
(3 marks)
To improve upon this and make it even easier for John you would be able to automate the
watering with a pump connected through the system, whenever the moisture level dropped
too low the pump would turn on. So, John would only have to fill up the water supply less
frequently than he would have to water each plant and the plants would get optimal watering
if John didn’t realise the plants LED was on.

Q8: Propose some ways to extend your proposed solution for


scenario 2.
(3 marks)

They could set a radius for which their paths overlap, not just when they ride on the same
section of road, in which to notify the students of the overlap. Such as setting a 2KM radius so if
anyone’s path is within a 2km radius they could both ride slightly out of their normal path next
time to meet with each other. There might also be a live update so if any point during your ride
you are close to someone you get notified and not just after your ride when your data has been
processed.

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