Project Overview

Our project is focused on gathering data from self-contained power stations known as microgrids, storing the data, and then presenting it for research, demonstration, and publicity on a web application. We are focused primarily on a specific microgrid called a solar crate owned by Iowa State University, which fits inside of a small shipping container. The data collected will be made available to microgrid administrators, researchers, and the general public. The groundwork for this project has already been developed by a prior senior design team (Senior Design Team 21 in Fall 2021 [sddec21-21]), and we will be building upon this foundation by upgrading the frontend from a mobile application to a web application, improving the security measures of the system, and enabling collection of data from more microgrids besides the solar crate owned by Iowa State University.

Alexander Haack

Software Engineer

Software Engineering major from Davenport, Iowa.

Carson Love

Cybersecurity Engineer

I am a Cybersecurity major here at Iowa State. My hobbies include travel and camping. After college I will be going into consulting.

David Harmon

Software Engineer

I am a Software Engineering major working at Buildertrend. I am originally from Fort Collins, Colorado. My hobbies are game development and board/card games.

Harvey Forchu

Computer Engineer

I was born and raised in Cameroon. After graduation, I would like to get some real world experience before getting a master's degree.

Kenyon Fergen

Software Engineer

Software Engineering major with Cybersecurity minor from Ames, Iowa. After college I will be working at Epic Systems.