Environmental Sensor DataLogging using Raspberry Pi

By Brendan Smith and Dr. Julian Deventer
Under Dr. Robert Rhew's Trace Gas Biogeochemistry Lab at UC Berkeley

Please note:
This page is maintained by someone of intermediate technical expertise, please help contribute!
Any questions please send to bsmithpolo at gmail dot com or post as Github Issues

Overview

Inspired by the Maker Movement and with the emergence of low cost technologies like Raspberry Pi and Arduino, there is opportunity for research communities to bypass high cost logging technologies provided by vendors. Lower cost alternatives exist via emerging technologies and with minimal expertise.

This project walks through setting up devices, creating simple sensor readers, and storage of information.

Much of the information provided was not created, it is merely a helpful aggregation of sample projects and data sheets to aid with re-creating a project or serve as a reference.

Raspberry Pi code is written as Python scripts.

Instructions for Creation

Please see our wiki for detailed instructions for recreation.

Main Supplies

Hardware

• Raspberry Pi 3
• Adafruit Breakout: ADS1115 16-bit ADC
• Adafruit Breakout: DS1307 Real Time Clock

Battery

• EC Technology 22400mAh Power Bank

Sensors

• Kipp and Zonen PAR Quantum Sensor
• DHT22 Temperature and Humidity
• Decagon EC-5 Soil Moisture