Meet the Girl Power group composed of teachers Lori Wolf, Jennifer Williams(Graduate Student), Raechelle Jones, and Chelsea Meyer. Their project is designed around reducing power consumption on a SWAN surveilance camera system. Ardurino wireless network sytems will be used to code for motion detection. They are trying to get set the camera system to record only when motion is detected which will help with power consumption. Their field research will be putting these cameras in artifical habitats to observe various animals at the Isle du Bois at Lake Ray Roberts. They will be running trials on grid then hopefully creating an off grid system reducing power consumption using solar panels.
The teachers with the help of their beloved graduate student took a quick course in Schematics 101 so that they could understand the electrical system of the cameras.
Here is an example of an artificial habitat that they will use with the cameras to monitor motion.
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