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WindAid is also Electronics

Post author:Roberto Weiser
Post published:30/07/2018
Post category:Create for Good Product Development Sustainable Design
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This post was originally published on the WindAid blog. The article can be found here

Back in the summer of 2014, I had one of the best experiences of my life (sounds cheesy and the start of a teenage girl movie doesn’t it?). I was just finishing university and graduating with an electronics engineering bachelor degree at the University of Plymouth and before getting hooked into a 9-5 job I was looking to have an experience where I could combine three different factors (more…)

Wind turbines with Twitter accounts

Post author:Stuart Llewellyn
Post published:11/07/2018
Post category:Create for Good Product Development Sustainable Design
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Wind Turbines with Twitter accounts? Unconventional perhaps, but it’s a zero service cost option I was able to implement that allows WindAid Institute, a Peruvian Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) to receive notifications from their wind turbine systems in rural Peru. The open source remote monitor project (or ReMona) was born out of a need to:

Receiving system alerts, such as battery level being critically low.
Wanting Live data to track system usage and turbine performance anywhere in the world.

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