Here at Vista Del Mar, we combine simple, sustainable living with technology in an effort to develop a sustainable model for humanity moving forward.

One of the ways that we do this is by utilizing automation to improve the yield and efficiency of our projects. IOT is becoming a big part of this for smart energy and resource management.

Our current project is a controller to monitor the water system, sensing level, well pump flow, and pump power usage. This way we hope to optimize pumping for when we have excess power, detect system failures, and monitor water use.

We also have a solar power system controller that aids in charging the batteries and monitoring power system state. This old protoboard workhorse has more than a year of flawless operation and helps to bring the batteries up to charge more quickly than our controllers alone. It sends its data out to the brokers, which in turn send to the graphic displays and the ubidots dashboard here.

The code for all of our IOT devices is here on github