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# Title Team Members TA Documents Sponsor
16 Thermo-Camera Based Energy Consumption Monitoring System
 Boyan Li
Lingjie Zhang
Yutao Zhu
Zheyang Jia
 Adeel Ahmed design_document3.pdf
final_paper1.pdf
proposal1.pdf
 Pavel Loskot
# TEAM MEMBERS:
Yutao Zhu (yutaoz2@illinois.edu 3190110413),

Zheyang Jia (zheyang5@illinois.edu 3190110096),

Boyan Li (boyanl3@illinois.edu 3190110007),

Lingjie Zhang (lingjie3@illinois.edu 3190110913)

# THERMO-CAMERA BASED ENERGY CONSUMPTION MONITORING SYSTEM
# PROBLEM:
In the field of chip and circuit research, power consumption is an important indicator. Thermal imaging is a method to analyze power consumption.

For example, thermal analysis can assist designers to determine the electrical performance and reliability of components on PCB and help determine whether components or PCB will fail or burn out due to overheating.

A circuit board contains many components. We want to simulate the power consumption related to temperature.

At present, due to the different thermal properties of each circuit element, the current thermal imaging equipment is not necessarily flexible and accurate for analyzing circuit power consumption.

Our goal is to design a convenient, dedicated, and accurate thermal imager to assist in the research of chips and circuits.

# SOLUTION OVERVIEW:
To solve the problems mentioned above, we plan to design a thermo-camera and corresponding software to analyze the temperature distribution over a circuit board such as the motherboard of a computer. The product is a cuboid frame with a thermo-camera, a controller, and an image recognition system. The camera's field of view can cover a small PCB or part of a computer motherboard. According to what circuit components we want to analyze, the camera can move to the corresponding location. Knowing the temperatures over the board, we will estimate how much energy is consumed at different parts of the board.

# SOLUTION COMPONENTS:
A thermo-camera that sends images to a computer in real-time.

A bracket capable of three-dimensional movement for placing the thermo-camera.

Image processing software to inform physics-based models of energy consumption in electrical circuits.

A control system for the mobile camera, which is very useful for adjusting its position and zooming to obtain correct real-time image.

The interface between the camera hardware and the image processing software.

# CRITERION FOR SUCCESS:
## DELIVERABLE:
Hardware: A thermo-camera on a bracket with a control system.

Software: Image processing software.

The interface for hardware and software.

## FUNCTIONALITY:
The thermal camera can adjust its position and zoom to obtain the correct image and send it to the computer in real-time.

Users can use image processing software to analyze the energy consumption in the circuit.

The interface between software and hardware should be stable and reliable.

# DISTRIBUTION OF WORK:
ECE Boyan Li:

Develop and implement thermal image segmentation to extract images of electronic components.

Obtain the temperature and energy consumption distribution on the circuit board through the real-time image.

EE Yutao Zhu, Zheyang Jia:

Design and implement the interface between hardware and software so that the camera and the computer can successfully transmit real-time images. And the work on image processing software together with ECE students.

ME Lingjie Zhang:

Make a bracket for placing the camera, which can enable the camera to complete 3-dimensional movement (like the probe of 3D printer) to capture the power consumption of the circuit board.

S.I.P. (Smart Irrigation Project)

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Our project is to be a reliable, robust, and intelligent irrigation controller for use in areas where reliable weather prediction, water supply, and power supply are not found.

Upon completion of the project, our device will be able to determine the moisture level of the soil, the water level in a water tank, and the temperature, humidity, insolation, and barometric pressure of the environment. It will perform some processing on the observed environmental factors to determine if rain can be expected soon, Comparing this knowledge to the dampness of the soil and the amount of water in reserves will either trigger a command to begin irrigation or maintain a command to not irrigate the fields. This device will allow farmers to make much more efficient use of precious water and also avoid dehydrating crops to death.

In developing nations, power is also of concern because it is not as readily available as power here in the United States. For that reason, our device will incorporate several amp-hours of energy storage in the form of rechargeable, maintenance-free, lead acid batteries. These batteries will charge while power is available from the grid and discharge when power is no longer available. This will allow for uninterrupted control of irrigation. When power is available from the grid, our device will be powered by the grid. At other times, the batteries will supply the required power.

The project is titled S.I.P. because it will reduce water wasted and will be very power efficient (by extremely conservative estimates, able to run for 70 hours without input from the grid), thus sipping on both power and water.

We welcome all questions and comments regarding our project in its current form.

Thank you all very much for you time and consideration!