[dsg-eic_dirc] Remote pressure monitoring for EIC DIRC barbox shipping

[Tyler Lemon]

Hi Greg,

This is kind of a long email, so I apologize in advance for the wall of text...

I heard back from the company that makes the bluetooth, remote monitoring pressure transducers.
The cost would be about $110 per transducer (not including any shipping).
The quote I got states that it'll take 4-5 weeks to receive the part. Since that would cut it pretty close for being able to get the part, install it, and test the system, I'm going to keep looking for alternatives.

Besides finding something that we can get in time to set up and test, I think the biggest obstacle is going to be the sensors capability of communicating to the chase car from inside the truck.

With all of that and also assuming that the shipping company is okay with us securing things to the outside of the truck, I think we have three options:

Option 1:
Get transducers that communicate using bluetooth and find a way to route a tube out of the truck to a place where we can fix the sensor someplace where the signal won't get blocked by the truck walls.

Option 2:
Use some sort of visual indicator to signal to the chase car rather than transmitting a live readout between devices. This could be something like routing a signal to a light fixed someplace on the back of the truck that turns on if the pressure drops below a set point.

Option 3:
Move to something that uses a router like the previous shipment since we know that worked.
I think the main downside of this option is that it is a more complex set up since we have to worry about powering the router and setting up the network configurations.


What are your thoughts?

-Tyler


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