{"id":620,"date":"2011-05-05T09:50:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T14:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/?p=620"},"modified":"2011-05-05T09:50:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T14:50:37","slug":"chestnut-farm-monitoring-with-thingspeak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2011\/05\/05\/chestnut-farm-monitoring-with-thingspeak\/","title":{"rendered":"Chestnut Farm Monitoring with ThingSpeak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a Chestnut farm in New Zealand, you will find a bit of technology to help protect a bore pump. [Andrew] has created a pump monitor based on a PICAXE microcontroller, IR counter, and wireless connection to report the pump status remotely to ThingSpeak.\u00a0He wanted to know if the pump was running too long and the only way to know definitively\u00a0was to monitor the pump and save historical data. If the pump is running too long, the pump would be damaged\u00a0and use more power than its fair share.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.quicktrip.co.nz\/jaqblog\/home\/41-blogthingspeak (link no longer works)\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-621\" title=\"Chestnut Farm Bore Pump Monitoring with ThingSpeak\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/15\/files\/2011\/05\/Chestnut_Bore_Monitor_ThingSpeak.jpg\" alt=\"Chestnut Farm Bore Pump Monitoring with ThingSpeak\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[via <a title=\"Chestnut Farm Monitoring with ThingSpeak\" title=\"http:\/\/www.quicktrip.co.nz\/jaqblog\/home\/41-blogthingspeak (link no longer works)\">JAQ&#8217;s Blog<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a Chestnut farm in New Zealand, you will find a bit of technology to help protect a bore pump. [Andrew] has created a pump monitor based on a PICAXE microcontroller, IR counter, and wireless&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2011\/05\/05\/chestnut-farm-monitoring-with-thingspeak\/\">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":[76,71,72,75,74,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620"}],"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=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}