Participants designed remote monitoring solutions to withstand hazardous environments
element14.com, an Avnet community, has announced the winning designs of its “Just Encase” Design Challenge, where 55 participants from around the worlddesigned remote monitoring systems utilizingArduino MKR WAN 1300 and Hammond Manufacturingenclosures to determine their success and resilience in hazardous environments.
The Grand Prize winner,Milos Rasic, milosrasic98from Serbia,created a complex design named the OrbWeaver Rover that can cast a “net” of sensor boxes around a targeted area to monitor various data points including temperature, heat index, humidity and air pressure across multiple locations. The OrbWeaveralso boasts active suspension.
The “Just Encase” Runner-Up, Christopher Kettell, christopheskyfrom the United Kingdom,developed a Garden Pond Monitor that measures water temperature at various depths and can determine the total dissolved solids, pH, air temperature, humidity, light levels and air pressure. All aspects functioned properly in a total submersion test.
Other participants created myriad projects to monitor wind, solar, pool water quality/chemical levels, air quality, winter driving conditions, landslides, irrigation, particulate matter and more.
“Our community of makers and engineers continue to impress with projects that solve for important issues around the world where monitoring is essential, even in extreme conditions, said Dianne Kibbey, Global Head of Community and Social Mediafor the element14 Community. “We’re continually grateful for this ingenuity and thoughtfulness that goes into these challenges.”
The grand prize winner of this design challenge received a Sony PlayStation 5, a luxury earthquake survival kit, survival shelter and vehicle fire extinguisher; a total value of $1,050.
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To learn more about element14 Design Challenges and see the complete list of winners, visit the element14 website.
