Robert Taylor: Robert's SPOT blog

The Ravenswood site is several miles away from the Labs which is too far for a single patch of SPOTs so we need a way of sending and receiving data from the site. The picture below shows the distance between the Labs and Ravenswood site which is next to the bridge in the distance. The easiest and cheapest way of getting data to and from the site would be wifi. The only problem with using wifi would be the need to put repeater stations in the ground every so often because a single access point won't reach. However, the Labs have bought a couple of Ubiquiti Network's PowerStation 2 to boost the wifi signal so that we can run a wifi network from the Labs to Ravenswood. On Friday we tested the link between the Labs and one of the Director's houses over 8 miles away and got about 4Mb/s without any major tweaking.

Hello again. In my last post I briefly introduced myself, now I'd like to take the time to explain in more detail what I'll be doing during my internship. Amongst other things, I'll be working with the SPOT team on the Yggdrasil Data Collection Framework. This framework is an effort within the SPOT team to create a programming framework that enables people with various levels of programming experience to easily create end-to-end applications i.e. all the code from visualising and storing the data on to the code that runs on the SPOTs. I'll be working on the SPOT side tools i.e. the code that runs on the SPOTs. This code will hopefully be used in SPOT deployments at the Cocobolo Nature Reserve in Panama and at Ravenswood in Menlo Park, CA as part of the salt marsh reclamation project. I'll be posting more about my work as its completed.

Hello all! My name is Robert Taylor and I've recently returned to Sun as an International Student Intern on the Sun SPOT team. Over the next few months I'll be posting what myself and other interns on the SPOT team are doing.