NGEE Iridium System Brainstorm

First thoughts

So I put some links on the potential technologies page. I think the rough arc is:

• that the data logger is programmed to turn on the computer on a set schedule.
• the computer has a service that runs at start up which queries the logger probably using:
  • pycampbellcr1000.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
• the logger data now transferred to the computer...
  • run it through datapro briefly? Or maybe just specially reformat.
• maybe check out this smaz deal.
  • import lib.smaz
  • https://github.com/CordySmith/PySmaz
  • ... maybe better with zlib: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12871775/python-compress-ascii-string

from lib.smaz import compress, decompress
import zlib
a='"2016-03-21 07:00:00",6444,0,-17.3,0.003,2.517,1.248,2.498,2.402,2.314,2.498,1.475,0,-17.7,0.003,0.483,1.174,2.498,2.478,2.412,2.498,1.499'
>>> len(a)
138
>>> len(compress(a))
140
>>> len(zlib.compress(a))
84

• anyway, after reformatting, then use AT commands to direct the sutron SBD to transmit the data to the iridium network.