Honors Theses and Capstones
Date of Award
Spring 2013
Project Type
Senior Honors Thesis
College or School
CEPS
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Program or Major
Electrical Engineering
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science
First Advisor
Nicholas Kirsch
Abstract
The Oyster Restoration Program alongside the New Hampshire chapter of the Nature Conservancy is working towards developing new oyster beds throughout the Great Bay. Sedimentation is proving to be a vast problem by covering up the beds before they have a chance to grow to a healthy level. The many rivers entering the Great Bay are bringing the sediments from all over the region and limiting the ability of the program to develop the new beds. They need a way to measure the sedimentation rate, by measuring the flow rate of the rivers over a single tidal cycle in various locations throughout the bay. This is done simply by the design of a wireless water flow meter network. Using a Price Meter as the measurement tool and an Arduino UNO to organize the data, the Oyster Restoration Program can monitor the characteristics of the locations to gain a better understanding of the location as a potential site for a new oyster bed. The design of an self contained system to extract and store the data to be collected is essential to speed up the process of monitoring these locations, which the device developed here will do.
Recommended Citation
Blanchette, Braden S., "Wireless Water Flow Meter Network in the Great Bay" (2013). Honors Theses and Capstones. 146.
https://scholars.unh.edu/honors/146