Equipment/CactusFarm

Cactus Farm
Model	N/A
Sub-category	Networking
Status	Good working order
Consumables	N/A
Accessories	N/A
Training requirement	No
ACnode	No
Owner	JasperW
Origin	JasperW
Location	Hub in the quiet room
Maintainers	JasperW

Summary

CactusFarm is our low bandwidth sensor network based on the jeelab RF12 modules. Runs on 868Mhz and allows pumping of data into cacti graphs.

Structure

<graphviz border='frame' format='png' >

digraph rfboard{
  rankdir=TD;
  size="7,5!";
  
  hub [label="RMF12pi hub",shape=box];
  cacti [label="graphs",shape=box];

  node1 [label="node 1",shape=box];
  node2 [label="node 2",shape=box];
  node3 [label="node 3",shape=box];
 
  node1 -> hub;
  node2 -> hub;
  node3 -> hub;

  hub -> node1;
  hub -> node2;
  hub -> node3;

  hub -> cacti;

} </graphviz>

Uses

• Power monitoring

Links

• RFP12PIYD github link with instructions
• One place to get them JeeLabs