23 Sep 2006
Perl at Work

Thermd - an environmental monitoring, logging, graphing, and reporting engine

Presented by Daniel V. Klein

Abstract

Five years ago, thermd started out as a simple temperature monitoring daemon using a $20 sensor kit. In the intervening time, it has grown to be a CGI script, graphing program, and documentation system (all with the same program) that supports a variety of sensors from a wide variety of manufacturers (including temperature, weather, environment and most recently power consumption). This talk documents not only the growth of the software, but the design choices, implementation techniques, mistakes and triumphs made in this science-project gone wild. You can see the latest incarnation of the system at http://www.klein.com/thermd/.

Details

Time
1:00 PM
Length
30 minutes
Room
pair Networks