Week 3 Day 1

Monday was a field trip day! The whole group got together at EESAT and loaded up  in vans to go explore the Greenbelt Corridor of Ray Roberts State Park. There has been a sensor array set up out there for the last couple of years that we were interested in seeing. It is similar to the wireless sensor network we are designing in principal, though the specifics are markedly different. The most obvious difference is that these sensors are monitoring soil moisture and other land based readings whereas we are aquatic. Another major difference is that the sensors here use a Crossbow radio rather than XBee. Aside from the sensor array it was also a pleasant nature walk.