{"id":611,"date":"2011-04-26T11:28:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T16:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/?p=611"},"modified":"2011-04-26T13:07:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T18:07:33","slug":"thingspeak-shower-time-analysis-with-rfid-and-arduino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2011\/04\/26\/thingspeak-shower-time-analysis-with-rfid-and-arduino\/","title":{"rendered":"ThingSpeak Shower Time Analysis with RFID and Arduino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Paul Asselin] was curious to see how long he spent showering in an effort to reduce energy and resource consumption. Paul had a bunch of parts laying around, an Arduino, Ethernet Shield, Real-time Clock module, and an RFID reader. He decided to make a system that allows you to &#8220;check in&#8221; when you shower and upload the data for analysis to ThingSpeak.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-612\" title=\"ThingSpeak Showering Analysis and Resource Monitoring\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/15\/files\/2011\/04\/Showering-Analysis.png\" alt=\"ThingSpeak Showering Analysis and Resource Monitoring\" width=\"455\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Paul says,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I wanted to know how much time I was spending under the shower each day,  especially in these\u00a0environmentally\u00a0conscious\u00a0times. The benefits of that  are that I can\u00a0perhaps\u00a0save some money on the water bills and also study  the effect of temperature on my showering time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-613\" title=\"ThingSpeak Shower Time Analysis with RFID and Arduino Ethernet\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/15\/files\/2011\/04\/ThingSpeak_Shower_Time_Analysis-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"ThingSpeak Shower Time Analysis with RFID and Arduino Ethernet\" width=\"614\" height=\"409\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[via <a title=\"Paul Asselin Shower Time Analysis with ThingSpeak, RFID, and Arduino\" title=\"http:\/\/asselinpaul.posterous.com\/shower-time-analysis-thingspeak-contest (link no longer works)\">Paul Asselin<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Paul Asselin] was curious to see how long he spent showering in an effort to reduce energy and resource consumption. Paul had a bunch of parts laying around, an Arduino, Ethernet Shield, Real-time&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2011\/04\/26\/thingspeak-shower-time-analysis-with-rfid-and-arduino\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[14,71,68,69,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}