Kevin's Week 13 Report

This week I worked on making a few modifications to the sensor reading tool and the website.  For the sensor tool, I added in a check where if the serial port is unable to read data from the sensor, due to it being unplugged, it will set the sensor value reading to 0.  This is needed so that a reading is at least being put in, so that if a full minute goes by where the cable is unplugged, the program will not crash.  I also made a modification to the website in terms of viewing available data.  Beforehand, when the browse tab was initially opened, if a full days worth of data had not been collected, then you could not view data from that year.  On the initial browse page, I was checking the day data table to see if there was data, I instead switched it to the minute data and now I can view that data.  I met with Andrew and Ashley yesterday to work on getting the numbers from the system into our database.  We are still working on getting the correct numbers into the database, as there is too much fluctuation between data right now.  There seems to be some timing issue with reading the data.  We tried switching the reading to every two seconds on my end, in order to give the calculation and transmission enough time to complete, however, we still saw data that was not consistent.

I was able to view the website on other computers connected to the router.  Now I will finish up getting the final touches on the sensor tool and website, just getting it ready for installation and I will continue to work with Ashley on getting consistent data coming in.  I will also start gathering up the documentation I need for the reports.