{"id":862,"date":"2011-07-05T10:30:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T07:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/?p=862"},"modified":"2011-07-05T10:36:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T07:36:41","slug":"identify-the-datasets-contest-the-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/2011\/07\/05\/identify-the-datasets-contest-the-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Identify the datasets contest &#8211; the results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month I <a title=\"100$ identify the datasets contest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/2011\/05\/30\/100-dollars-identify-the-datasets-contest\/\">asked my readers to identify\u00a0data-sets\u00a0of digital and analog inputs<\/a>\u00a0of two sensors I connected to an iobridge \u00a0<a title=\"IO-204 Monitor and Control Module\" href=\"http:\/\/products.iobridge.com\/io-204-monitor-and-control-module\/\">IO-204 Monitor and Control Module<\/a>. I offered a prize of 100$ to the first correct answer.<\/p>\n<p>I got a few guess:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>toilet flushes and chlorine concentration (Jean-Baptiste)<\/li>\n<li>room temperature and thermostat or smoke alarm (Luke)<\/li>\n<li>room temperature and air conditioning On\/Off switch (Gil)<\/li>\n<li>water pressure and zone valves (wayne byal)<\/li>\n<li>water pressure and start\/stop of a pumping station (Nuno Dias)<\/li>\n<li>water temperature in the water heater tank and heater status (omargut)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And &#8230; the resualts are in &#8211; <strong>on one got the full answer correct \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As <em>Jean-Baptiste<\/em> noted, the\u00a0Digital Input\u00a0indicates toilet flushes. Luke guessed that the Analog Input is room temperature and he was almost correct &#8211; it is the water temperature in the toilet (<em>omargut<\/em> did say it was water temperature).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/electric-chair-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-861\" title=\"Is it the electric chair?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/electric-chair-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the right side (red circle)\u00a0is\u00a0a stainless steel\u00a0liquid float switch water level sensor (DI)\u00a0and on the left side (blue circle) is a temperature sensor inserted in a balloon to protect the electric connection.<\/p>\n<p>The logic behind the data is simple.\u00a0If the toilet is not flushed for a long time,\u00a0the temperature in the tanks will generally follow the room temperature.\u00a0\u00a0When the toilet is flushed (change in the digital input), new water flows into the tank. If the water temperature in the house pipes is higher than the room temperature then we will see a quick rise in the analog data (and vise-versa). Now, as time goes by, we will see a gradually decrease\\increase in the analog data as the water in toilet&#8217;s tank cool\\heat.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The winners:<\/strong><\/span> well, as I wrote above, no one got it right. However, <strong>Jean-Baptiste<\/strong> and <strong>omargut<\/strong> were the closest so I guess I will split the prize between them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month I asked my readers to identify\u00a0data-sets\u00a0of digital and analog inputs\u00a0of two sensors I connected to an iobridge \u00a0IO-204 Monitor and Control Module. I offered a prize of 100$ to the first correct answer. I got a few &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/2011\/07\/05\/identify-the-datasets-contest-the-results\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Identify the datasets contest &#8211; the results<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[121,17,126,125,127],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-contest","tag-features","tag-iobridge","tag-iot","tag-thingspeak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}