About The Project
This project is a continuation of work done by Stephen Shelton and Kate Palmer during the 2014-2015 academic year.
Their work can be found here.
Problem Background
Martin Engineering is a small company based in Neponset, IL. They
have a long history developing innovative products to move bulk
materials in mining. In order to improve their current products,
they want to monitor the voltage, temperature, and revolutions per
minute of the motors used to run the equipment. Since Martin
Engineering has a relationship with Bradley University, they decided
to sponsor a senior project in the Electrical and Computer
Engineering department. In the 2014 and 2015 academic year, one team
worked on developing such a system. The team successfully developed
a rough prototype to show the feasibility of the project.
Problem Statement
Martin Engineering and the Bradley University Electrical Engineering
Department desire a cost effective modular rapid monitoring system
that is broken up into two subsystems: a sensor interface system
(SIS) and a gateway interface system (GIS). Once it is powered up,
the SIS monitors six analog to digital channels, three accelerations
from a central accelerometer, and system temperature.
Within milliseconds after power is delivered, the SIS must
send the data to the GIS. The GIS then stores data received from the
SIS and makes it available to users using a web server by
communicating through Wi-Fi.