SensorNet

Alexander Chavers
Andrew Herzog
Jessica Ice
Samuel Miller
Shane Richendollar

Mentors: Cyrus Smith, Mark Gardiner, Johnny Tolliver, Reed Wade, Morey Parang, Paul Shipe, David Hill

Facilitator: James Rome

Our purpose for this project was to learn what components make SensorNet work and contribute to the safety of our nation. After a day and night of installing SUSE Linux, we learned how to program a binary calculator using Java programming language. There was a learning curve, where we were confounded by alien language, but we pulled through and made a working binary calculator. 101 is no longer one hundred one, it is now five. On July 12, Jim taught us how to secure our e-mail from hackers and eavesdroppers. The next day, Reed Wade came in and taught us about GIS (Geographic Information System) and Google Earth, where some of us zoomed in on interesting sites across the globe. Jim then sent us e-mail with links to SensorNet and provided us with web certificates to look at meteorological data gathered from SensorNet. We visited the Watt Rd. weigh station. None of the trucks coming through the sensor had any radioactive materials on board, a truck had to pull around and present the station officer with a manifest for a tank he was taking to an army base in Pennsylvania. We also learned that common materials such as bricks, tiles, cat litter, and bananas are naturally radioactive. Paul Shipe came in the next day and showed us how to query relational databases using SQL.

SensorNet photos