Orbit Power Monitoring

(By: Pavan A. Desai)

Goal: The overall goal of this project is to measure and monitor the power consumption across each node in the ORBIT test bed by effectively mapping each node to the proper breaker switch on the breaker board.

Requirements:

• Mega Arduino Board (Need both Arduino hardware & software for processing purposes)
• Arduino Ethernet Shield (Need to connect the Arduino Board to different networks)
• ORBIT Power Sensing Platform (Need to measure power)
• PuTTY Pageant Software (Used to connect to ORBIT's "Grid Network" from ones PC to observe the collection of data)
• PuTTY SSKEY (Used to create a secure shell key for secure data communication, PuTTY Pageant will require it for all ORBIT network connections)
• Ruby (Will be needed to parse XML output)
  

Overall Operation:

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Figure 1: Full View

Procedure:

1: Connect the Arduino Board and Arduino Ethernet Shield to the ORBIT Power Sensing Platform. The Arduino board will be connected to the bottom of the ORBIT Power Sensing Platform and the Arduino Ethernet Shield will be place on the top of the ORBIT Power Sensing Platform as shown below:

Figure 2: Connection

Current Progress: