[plug] re; battery / solar powered monitoring system (Luke)

[Luke John]

Hi Paul,

I've decided to go with the battery suggested by Onno (12V SLA Battery
available from Altronics #S5113, $165 per battery - trade price, 4kg
each <http://www.altronics.com.au/index.asp?area=item&id=S5113>) and a
Telstra Smart Touch Android phone
<http://reviews.dicksmith.com.au/8465-en_au/E6847/reviews.htm>.

I'll be hacking up a "Android App" today to take regular photos and
post them to a server.

The aim for the project is to get a cheap reproducible monitoring
station, and hopefully have more surf/river cams show up around Perth
and Mandurah. (This sort of station would be vandalized and knocked
off semi regularly so the cost of solar is too prohibitive).

Obviously for remote monitoring stations solar power would be a great
option as it is less likely to be vandalized, and the cost of
maintaining the battery would be significantly higher.

I'd be happy for any help or suggestions.

Kind Regards
Luke John



On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Paul Del - Info Technology Sys
<p at delfante.it> wrote:
> Hey Luke
>
> If you don't find any suggestions i know a friend in this area who could
> help.
>
> he is right into batteries, solar, charging etc
>
> Also i would be interested to help with this project if you need it.
>
> Thanks chat soon
>
>
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>> Last night at the PLUG Quiz night at Moon and SixPence was bloody excellent.
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>> Hi PLUGgers,
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>> I am looking at setting up a monitoring system using a phone (probably
>> android).
>>
>> The phone would be taking ~10 photos every minute and sending them
>> over a 3G connection (preferably more if battery could handle it,
>> possibly some video).  It would only be operating during daylight
>> hours. It would also not have access to mains power.
>>
>> The best solution for power I've been able to find so far for powering
>> the phone would be using a solar battery maintainer to keep a 12 V
>> battery charged and hooking up the phone via a car charger.
>>
>> Issues with this solution are; I wouldn't be keeping track of battery
>> levels, and it possibly wouldn't provide enough power.
>>
>> Does anybody have any suggestions for powering the device, given that
>> it doesn't need to be solar as long as battery replacement was
>> fortnightly, or know of any projects that have documented doing stuff
>> like this.
>>
>> Kind Regards
>> Luke John
>>
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