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Paired Storage Distributed Energy System Design For A Local Community Farm, Neil Albert Collison, Lily Goldman
Paired Storage Distributed Energy System Design For A Local Community Farm, Neil Albert Collison, Lily Goldman
Electrical Engineering
This project considers the design of a renewable energy microgrid for a 19-acre community farm in San Luis Obispo, CA as the farm seeks to increase the magnitude of its electrical loads, and gain back-up electrical capability. The microgrid design will enable lower carbon emissions, reduce demand on the utility grid while saving on energy costs, and provide improved reliability and resiliency to the operator of the community farm. The eventual implementation of the design by a professional engineering entity will allow the community farm to expand its education program to include renewable energy as well as gain notoriety in …
Remote Crop Disease Detection Using Deep Learning With Iot, Ivy Chung, Anoushka Gupta
Remote Crop Disease Detection Using Deep Learning With Iot, Ivy Chung, Anoushka Gupta
Electrical and Computer Engineering Senior Theses
Agriculture is such a vital part of our society, and according to the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), plant diseases are considered one of the two main causes of decreasing food availability. This paper explores not only the methods and findings of building a CNN-based disease detection model, but that of building a deployable remote crop disease detection system incorporating IoT technology. By using transfer learning with AlexNet, we were able to predict with 89.8% accuracy tomato plant images into one of the ten pre-defined disease classes. Our proposed system tracks plant health throughout the day by using …