Plant 2 Power Website
expand_moreA website for monitoring the power from 8 plant walls and 6 solar panels and provide live and historical data.
Created: 9 years ago
I designed this website for a Cambridge University project by the Biological Sciences Department. It monitors the power from 8 plant walls and 6 solar panels and provide live and historical data.
A little about P2P
The P2P solar hub has been developed by a team of scientists at the University of Cambridge working in collaboration with green technology companies. The hub integrates two types of solar technologies: 1) an aSi-PV solar panels and 2) a new concept technology known as a ‘plant-BES’, which generates electrical current from plant root interactions within the Living Wall on the outside of the hub. It will be displayed at the Botanic Garden (Cambridge, UK) for a year while the team behind the project monitor the amount of current produced by this combined system. The long-term aim of the P2P solar hub research is to develop a range of self-powered sustainable buildings for diverse use all over the world from bus stops to refugee shelters.
The Project
As the programmer, I was responsible for writing the scripts to read data collected from the Arduino interface and write it to a MySQL database every second. This data is also recorder at greater intervals to improve web performance.
As the web designer and developer, I was responsible for the design process relating to the front-end (client side) design of the website including writing mark up and also the development side including client liaison, scripting, web server and network security configuration. Web designers are expected to have an awareness of usability and are also expected to be up to date with web accessibility guidelines.
As the graphic designer, I was responsible for typesetting, illustration, user interfaces and web design. A core responsibility of the designer's job is to present information in a way that is both accessible and memorable.
My Role
- Programmer - (Python)
- Web Designer/Developer - (HTML,CSS,PHP,jQuery)
- Concept Artist
- Graphic Designer