Gristle Crüe Community Call — 5/17/22

Bryan Bui from Par­ley Labs came on to talk with us about sen­sors and the grow­ing space of IoT. We cov­ered sen­sors, where the oppor­tu­ni­ties are, what you might start with, and one of his first Heli­um projects. 

Lost almost 19ETH, NFTs, etc. being dumb giv­ing out my 12 words.
Light Hotspots still under devel­op­ment.
Inter­view with Sorin
https://riverside.fm/studio/gki-video-interview

0:03:07 — Who is Bryan from Par­ley­Labs ?
Start­ed Par­ley­Labs when I (Bryan) got into Heli­um
Spent 15 years rapid pro­to­type sen­sor devel­op­ment with the Navy.

0:06:00 — What is the future of Par­ley­Labs with Heli­um ?
We have this huge net­work, we will con­tin­ue to build where it needs to be.
We want to see what peo­ple’s prob­lems are, what we can do.
Peo­ple want to use the net­work, but don’t want to build some­thing, so there are peo­ple build­ing platforms.

0:10:03 — Q/A — Will — Water Sen­sors
Are there Com­mer­cial Grade Water Sen­sors that can han­dle some­thing 50,000 gal/min ?
Indus­tri­al Flow Meter.
Indus­tri­al Meters or Sen­sors can be con­vert­ed to LoRa with mod­ules.
RS-485, ser­i­al com­mu­ni­ca­tions systems

0:16:48 — Cal­i­bra­tion of Sen­sors
Con­stant­ly hav­ing to recal­i­brate for Chlo­rine
They don’t need dai­ly cal­i­bra­tion but depend­ing on your application.

0:18:24 — Farmer Meet-Up
Found a local Farmer Meet-up, going to check it out and see what their prob­lems are.

0:20:51 — How do you source prob­lems ?
It’s easy when peo­ple come to you with their prob­lems
When they ask I want this sen­sor you have to ask your­self why they want the sen­sor.
7 W’s. Who, What, When, Where, Why, Why, Why.
Keep ask­ing why, like an onion it will unrav­el so that you can find the root problem.

0:22:49 — Fire Sen­sor Project
Real­ly ear­ly project just to show the LoRa Net­work works.
Not Pro­duc­tion ready. There is a lot that goes into detect­ing a Wild­Fire.
CO2, Gen­er­al Air Qual­i­ty, PM2, Weath­er Sta­tions, etc.
It comes down to what orga­ni­za­tion would care to spend time on this. City, Land own­er, University?

0:25:46 — Q/A — Sean — Cab­in Sen­sors
Snow Sen­sors
Liq­uid Lev­el Sen­sors for Propane
Sens­ing Heat, and then a Remote Con­trol Switch.

0:28:35 — Class Devices
Class A, Set Time (Low Pow­er)
Class B, Cer­tain Win­dow
Class C, Always Listening

0:31:32 — Q/A — Tay­lor — Bee Sen­sors
Bees, quick detec­tion ideas.
Weight, Sound,
Rats
Out of the Box ready to go
Pools, on/off switch­es, pool lev­el, evaporation

0:43:56 — Texas Hog Prob­lem
Door Sen­sor, Open/Close

0:46:01 — Mea­sur­ing Full Garbage Bins
Lev­el Sen­sor
Recep­tion in an alley should­n’t be a prob­lem
Clean­ing. Depends where you place them.

0:48:14 — Q/A — Kevin — St Louis Project
Count­ing Side­walk Traf­fic, Count­ing Cars.
Dif­fer­ent types of sen­sors.
Beam Based Coun­ters are good for slow mov­ing traf­fic.
For heavy traf­fic or more accu­rate mea­sure­ments there are Cam­era Based Sen­sors.
Count­ing Cars, you can have a bump in the road.

0:54:51 — Where’s the best place to find you (Bryan)
Par­ley­Labs
https://parleylabs.com/
@suprnrdy on Discord

0:55:57 — Peo­ple Counter Project Update
Top Secret insid­er infor­ma­tion
First Sen­sor Deployed.

0:57:11 — Clos­ing
Thanks to Russ. Tax infor­ma­tion.
GK NFTs Sun­day.
Inter­view with Sorin on River­side
Inter­view with Andrew Fisher