WEEK 9: Literature Review

This is the summary of the journals I’ve read and reviewed which I summarized it in a table. The table consists of the parameters investigated, the technology used as in the hardware and software implemented and also the place where the parameters is investigated.

A Remote Wireless System for Water Quality Online Monitoring in Intensive Fish Culture. By Xiuna Zhu, Daoliang Li, Jianqin Wang, Daokun Ma, Feifei Li (2010)
Parameter	Hardware	Location used
a)      Temperature b)      Dissolved oxygen c)      pH Water d)      Electrical conductivity	a)      Remote Monitoring platform b)      PICNIC2.0 (TriState, Japan) as the core-processing chip c)      CDMA module (InRouter210C, China) for data transformation and transmission d)      Temperature Sensor e)      Dissolved oxygen Sensor f)       pH Sensor g)      Electrical conductivity Sensor	Fish pond
Design and Deployment of Aqua Monitoring System Using Wireless Sensor Networks and IAR-Kick. By Chandanapalli S. B., Sreenivasa R. E., and Rajya L. D., (2014)
Parameter	Hardware	Location used
a)      Temperature outside and inside of the water b)      pH c)      Humidity	a)      ZigBee Wireless Sensor Node b)      GSM c)      AT89C52 microcontroller d)      Temperature sensors e)      pH sensor f)       Humidity Sensor	Fish pond
Wireless Sensor Network-Based Solution for Environmental Monitoring: Water Quality Assessment Case Study. By Octavian Postolache, José Dias Pereira, Pedro Silva Girão, (2014)
Parameter	Hardware	Location Used
a)   Conductivity b)   Temperature c)   Turbidity	a)      ZigBee Wireless Sensor Node b)      Conductivity Sensor c)      Temperature Sensor d)      Turbidity Sensor	Fish Pond

WEEK 8: Researching Jounals

I just doing my research on the journals that is related to my project this week. I look for the journals only on the trusted sources from the internet such as IEEE Xplore, ScienceDirect and Academia. Those journals can be accessed through UniKL Resource Off Campus Access which is subscribed by Universiti Kuala Lumpur Library, so I don’t have to make any purchases to view the journals published.

I have found a few journals that suits my project, but I found out that most of it cannot be used as a reference for my project because I just realised that some of it is a conference paper and Dr. said that it can’t be included in the literature review. Then, I have to search for another journal to replace the conference paper.

By reading the journals, I can identify the sensors and method that can be applied in my project. The summarized journals will be included in my literature review section for the project proposal later.

WEEK 7: OBJECTIVES

This week, I met Dr. to discuss about the purpose or objective of the project being carry out. well before the meeting he already asks me to prepare the objective regarding my project, so he just correct and improves the objectives that I've prepared. So, the final objectives of my project that have been corrected is as below.

Objectives:

-   To investigate the parameters needed to be monitoring to maintains the water quality.

-   To select the suitable sensor to measure the parameters.

-   To integrate and test the sensor on the selected micro-controller system.

-   To investigate and integrate the IOT platform for data collection and display on the selected micro-controller system.

-   To demonstrate the working prototype.

From this meeting, I understand clearly what I need to do in order to complete my FYP 1 before continuing the remaining progress in FYP 2 next semester. Next, I need to start my progress on the literature review which I need to do a research on the journals related to my project and summarizes it in a table, so it’ll be easier to review the journals.

WEEK 6: Project Background

After doing some research on my FYP project, I finally get the idea about why and how this project is being carry out. I will put the related information about my project in the project background section for the FYP 1 project proposal.  

Tittle: IOT Application on Fish Farm Monitoring by Controlling Water Quality in Ponds and Tanks

-Project Background-

Monitoring the water quality in fish farming industry is crucial factor as each water quality parameter can directly affect the condition of the fish. This is because almost 50 to 60% of the fish cultured (mostly tilapia) died cause by the farmer’s lack of awareness on the water quality that leads to Streptococcus outbreak, infection by S. agalactiae. Other than the disease, exposure of fish to improper levels of water quality and improper environment to stress next, deteriorating the animal’s health. All the parameters influence each other even though it has its very own value in order to indicates a good water quality in fish farming. The water quality needs to be monitor on regular basis to prevent some diseases which lead to a huge fish kill and next causing a big loss not only in terms of money but the farmers hard work in making sure the successful of their fish farming will be in vain.

WEEK 5: Running the CC3200 Launchpad

The program for the launchpad is already given by Dr. Zul so I just need to run the program on the launchpad. The first program is about measuring the surrounding temperature where the measurement is display on the port.

Just load the program using the energia software and compile it as shown below:

Verifying the program

Uploading the coding into the micro-controller

After finish compiling the program, the output will display on the serial monitor where the temperature detected is displayed on the serial monitor. However, make sure the baud rates on the serial monitor is similar as in the program to correctly display the temperature.

Temperature displayed on the serial monitor 

WEEK 4: Installing the driver for CC3200 Launchpad

After going through the tutorials on the YouTube, finally i get the idea how to install the driver to run the CC3200 launchpad on my laptop. The driver can be downloaded from the Texas Instruments website (http://www.ti.com/tool/download/CC3200SDK).

Only the software with the arrow need to be download and install. There is another software that needs to be download which is the uniflash software to make sure the launchpad can be detected when connected to the USB port. It is also can be download from the Texas Instruments website, https://www.ti.com/tool/uniflash.

Finally, after all of the installation process is complete, the launchpad is recognized by the laptop as soon as it is connected to the port. The connection can be check at the device manager as shown in the picture below:

The estimation time for the installation process is about 10-15 minutes but it may take longer than that depends on the storage and internet connection.

WEEK 3: TEXAS INTRUMENTS - CC3200 Launchpad

This week, Dr. give me CC3200 Launchpad which is to be include in my project but of course he only lends it to me 😅 he also did a demonstration on how to use the launchpad and pass out some of the program's coding which I need to try it myself. 

TEXAS INTRUMENTS - CC3200 Launchpad

CC3200 Launchpad

Unfortunately, I encounter a few problems while trying to run the launchpad. My laptop does not support the launchpad because the launchpad cannot be detected so I need to install the launchpad driver manually before I get to run the launchpad using my laptop.