Thesis Details

Automatic Thermometer

Bachelor's Thesis Student: Cuadrado Jorge Academic Year: 2015/2016 Supervisor: Kolář Dušan, doc. Dr. Ing.
Czech title
Automatic Thermometer
Language
English
Abstract

This BSc Thesis was performed during a study stay at the Faculty of Information Technology of the Brno University of Technology. The aim of this thesis is trying a Raspberry Pi board as and standalone system. The system will measure the temperature and run a web server. The web server will show the data in a web application and also it will provide the configuration options of the device. Furthermore, the device will transfer periodically the data to a remote host. The main problems of this aproach are the power consumption and the privacity of the data stored in the device. The power efficiency carry many considerations. On the one hand, it is needed to develop a efficient system, avoiding not essential libraries and trying to use as much software already present on the system as possible. On the other hand is necessary to configure the system in order to disable all the unnecesary hardware and software. This document details some power saving configurations made in the hadware and in the software of the board. There are many possible software configurations in order to save battery. The problem is about hardware configurations, the hardware is quite simple and several times it is not possible to disable components and some configurations are not possible without add external hardware components. Finally, it is possible to low the power consumption of the device greatly. But even with this configurations, the power consumption will be higher than in a normal embedded system, which can perform the temperature measurement properly and will be able to continue running more efficiently and more time. But the real fact is that a Raspberry Pi device despite of its power consumption is capable of working in more fields, it is cheaper and also provide a faster develop than a traditional embbeded system which are specific for one specific task.

Keywords

IoT (Internet of the Things), embedded systems, standalone system, Raspberry Pi, web application, power saving

Department
Degree Programme
Shortterm study BSc., Field of Study Information Technology
Files
Status
defended, grade C
Date
16 June 2016
Reviewer
Citation
CUADRADO, Jorge. Automatic Thermometer. Brno, 2016. Bachelor's Thesis. Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology. 2016-06-16. Supervised by Kolář Dušan. Available from: https://www.fit.vut.cz/study/thesis/19034/
BibTeX
@bachelorsthesis{FITBT19034,
    author = "Jorge Cuadrado",
    type = "Bachelor's thesis",
    title = "Automatic Thermometer",
    school = "Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology",
    year = 2016,
    location = "Brno, CZ",
    language = "english",
    url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/study/thesis/19034/"
}
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