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Title: Team 2 Solar Kiosk Project


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Team 2Solar Kiosk Project
  • Sponsored by
  • Team Members
  • Jakub Mazur - Manager
  • Eric Tarkleson Presentation/Lab
  • Josh Wong - Webmaster
  • Ben Kershner Document Preparation

2
Presentation Outline
  • Purpose
  • Design Parameters
  • System Architecture
  • Power Management
  • Questions

3
Project Purpose
  • Provide students in rural areas an opportunity to
    learn via computers.
  • Solar powered
  • Internet connected
  • Multi user
  • Obstacles
  • No electricity
  • No books
  • No roof

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Test Case Tanzania
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Design Parameters
  • Cost
  • Power consumption
  • Ease of use
  • Safety
  • Reliability
  • Faithfulness to Lenovo hardware

8
Major Project Considerations
  • System architecture
  • Laptops
  • Thin Clients
  • Multi Seat
  • Power management
  • Microcontroller monitoring
  • Power control

9
System Architecture Multi Seat
  • Low power
  • Low cost
  • Open source software
  • Proprietary software

10
System Architecture Thin Clients
  • Proven solution
  • Reliable
  • Low power
  • Able to make DIY clients

11
Power Management
  • Utilize microcontroller to monitor and manage
    power
  • PIC microcontroller
  • LEM Hall effect sensors
  • ADCs
  • LCD display
  • Status LEDs

12
Power Management
  • Necessary features
  • Monitor battery voltage/current
  • Monitor solar panel voltage/current
  • Issue shutdown sequence
  • Optional features
  • Individual current draw
  • Photo diode on solar panel
  • Seat monitor
  • Status reporting to central server

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Questions?
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