nkokkos
Hi everyone,
I decided to do my master thesis using nerves. Basically, the end product is a IoT device that connects to the local wifi and provides readings from an electrochemical C0 sensor through a web interface.
The CO sensor is an a professional sensor from Figaro, therefore I had to create an analog circuit on perfboard to capture the signal and then feed it into a breakout board I2C like asd1115 adc. I also use the breakout board bme680 since I need the temperature to do re-calibration of the sensor using a look up table. I also use the nerves key to do some sort of data push to an IoT platform. I plan to use the nerves cloud too. And finally I plan to use homex to push the data to a home assistant installation.
Most of the things used in the thesis/project have been covered here in the forum, plus in some nerves books that have been published. Through my research, no elixir nerves has been used before in thesis project in our department, so I suggested this proposal and my advisor gave me the ok.
In a nutshell, this is what this project does:
Uses a rasberry pi zero wireless, that connects to the perfboard where the CO sensor and the breakout boards are installed. Gets all the readings, provides all the readings through a poncho project using a web interface, pushes the data to an IoT platform and a local home assistant setup.
The most intriguing part was building the analog circuit interfacing the CO sensor since I had to go back to my undergraduate days and read all about operational amplifiers and low pass filters and all that.
I have started writing the code/firmware and the more I read and learn about nerves, the more amazed I become. Frank and all the people involved with nerves and the hex libraries have done a remarkable job and I thank you all. The documentation is so good.
This thesis is not rocket science but anyway I plan to release everything (source code and perfboard design) as a tutorial series, time willing.
Thank you for nerves!
Where Next?
Trending in Discussions
Other Trending Topics
Latest Nerves Threads
Latest Phoenix Threads
Latest on Elixir Forum
Sponsor Spotlight
At WyeWorks, we believe great software is built by combining technical excellence with genuine human connection
Categories:
Sub Categories:
Forums
Popular Tags
- #ecto
- #liveview
- #troubleshooting
- #learning-elixir
- #library
- #deployment
- #erlang
- #testing
- #genserver
- #mix
- #absinthe
- #remote-other
- #otp
- #plug
- #how-to-question
- #macros
- #postgres
- #elixirconf
- #channels
- #exunit
- #discussion
- #code-sync
- #podcasts
- #javascript
- #onsite
- #dialyzer
- #docker
- #authentication
- #umbrella
- #full-time-contract
- #podcasts-by-brainlid
- #ai
- #ecto-query
- #elixirconf-us
- #blog-post
- #elixir-ls
- #phoenix_html
- #iex
- #graphql
- #genstage
- #websockets
- #supervisor
- #advent-of-code
- #distillery
- #processes
- #elixirconf-eu
- #api
- #forms
- #metaprogramming
- #hex
Our Sponsors
Build Elixir applications with speed and confidence.
Supporting innovation across the BEAM ecosystem.
We build reliable cloud platforms for business-critical systems.
Catch errors, track performance, monitor hosts and more.
Error tracking, logs, uptime, and Just Enough APM. Built for developers.
Master modern tools, write cleaner code, and tackle real-world challenges.
Producing high quality Elixir screencasts since 2017.
The deployment platform built for Elixir: PaaS ease, VPS control.
The team behind Membrane, Popcorn, LiveDebugger. Available for hire.
Courses that'll move you from confusion to "Aha, now I get it!"
Showing Posts 1 to 8- Show Best Posts
- Show All (oldest first)
- Show All (newest first)
lawik
Delightful! Please keep us updated in this thread and share pictures
ssd
Sounds Interesting! We’re working on an IoT cloud platform called Fostrom built using Elixir, and we even have an Elixir SDK that works with Nerves out of the box. If you find it useful, I’m happy to help you set it up for pushing the sensor data to the cloud.
Good luck!
nkokkos
Thank you. I will try it!
nkokkos
Hi, I am uploading some pictures from the progress I have done so far.
The i2c breakout boards used are the bme680, the nerves key, and a cheap ads1115 adc,
The idea was to take an electrochemical sensor like the figaro tgs5042, which outputs a tiny current and superimpose it using an analog circuit based on an application note, and then pass the voltage produced to one of the adc inputs of the ads1115. I also use the bme680 to measure the temperature, since the temperature is used for a correction factor while calculating the CO ppm range.
I started with the idea to lay everything on a perfboard to reduce EMI but it turned out that was silly. So I kept the i2c boards on a breadboard and the analog part on a perfboard. Got really frustrated with the dupont cables and their connections.
I am currently running on the very first rpi0, one core cpu, sampling the inputs of the ads1115, doing median filtering to remove emi noise and pushing data to liveview using the classic poncho scheme. Code is almost complete and I was impressed that it worked. I am currently doing experiments now with measurements and I will provide a link to github in short time.
On the breadboard, you can see that I had to use coupling capacitors before the inputs. Coupling capacitors are used also on the perfboard to stabilize the voltage source
nkokkos
Hi, I tried it and if I remember well it won’t compile for my target, which is the very first rpi0, of 2017. That’s the board I am using.
arjunbajaj
Hey @nkokkos, I’m Arjun from Fostrom here.
We do have binaries for ARMv6, and we do test on Pi Zeros ourselves too.
It seems we possibly have a bug in the way the Device SDK downloads our Device Agent binary, related to the cross compiling environment of Nerves. I’ll fix and test it and get back to you soon.
nkokkos
I used Docs | ThingsBoard Cloud (EU) , the free version, along with the this mqtt broker
{:tortoise, "~> 0.10"}, and I just could not believe how easy it was to transfer the readings.nkokkos
We did some real tests today at the university’s chemistry lab. The screen shots show the phoenix liveview page running on rasberry pi zero wireless sampling every 15 seconds. You can see the CO ppm shoot up at some point and back down again. These are all simple liveview pages, nothing fancy, but it was really exciting to see the immediate response from the sensor.
By the way, I found on youtube this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0VPFwnBOO0 where the guy dissects a classic CO domestic which uses the tgs5042.