Small update: €30 and cents, Durable, Easy Repairable on Site Remote Monitoring of Concrete Maturity
and it can go as low as $5. Over the next weeks, I will be talking about IoT devices for monitoring concrete maturity at huge, large, or small construction sites. So make sure to check it regularly...
This article is a short one, only to let the reader know the visible progress made during this week on the assessment of a Durable, Easy Repairable on Site Remote Monitoring of Concrete Maturity IoT device. You can read the previous article on this series here:
https://migueltomas.substack.com/p/the-40-and-cents-durable-easy-repairable
Recap from the previous article on the series:
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By now the reader, maybe thinking, this all sounds all great and awesome, but I don’t know a thing about electronics hardware or how to assemble one. And you are right, however, don’t take it in, dismiss it, and go on with your life. This article is about dummy proof simplicity, meaning anyone, literally, anyone can assemble such as sensor requiring some basic reading of tutorials available on google or on youTube. Is that simple! is that easy! Plus, you, the reader, when managing construction site operations, will always have the possibility to arrange a remote Google Meet on Zoom meeting for live tech support.
Since this device, requires temperature readings from the cast concrete at the construction site, I’ll be using the same K-type sensor thermocouple. The one I ordered has only 1 m length, but it can be ordered on 50m 100m rolls for extra additional savings.
As the reader might have figured out by now, the Arduino Nano BLE has arrived so the K thermopar I’ll be using. For simplicity and usage, I decided to try a small plastic rod and insert the thermopar into it. The main idea, for now, is to 1) protect the sensor wire and 2) make the installation procedure the simplest possible and also the fastest possible on planet earth! Below is a short 1min or so video of me setting up one of the thermopars with the hollow plastic rod.
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This short video, with no commenting, is just to give a small preview of the assembling procedure necessary for the thermopar type K and into a plastic hollow rod. This task procedure is one any construction site engineer can perform easily to hand later to an assigned construction worker for installation during concrete casting. The plastic rod is to be marked with the right depth of insertion, so when it's time to install during casting, the only task required is to pick up the maturity IoT sensor device, connect this sensor to it and insert it into the fresh concrete. The total time of installation of this IoT device cannot be more than 1 minute. Contact me for acceptable error margins allowed on this type of maturity-sensing IoT devices.
The rod and the thermopar were both bought on AliExpress. See my previous article with the parts list, here.
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