{"id":658,"date":"2010-08-05T18:52:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T17:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/?p=658"},"modified":"2011-09-19T15:19:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T14:19:50","slug":"era-field-trip-at-plymouth-gees-learning-and-teaching-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/2010\/08\/05\/era-field-trip-at-plymouth-gees-learning-and-teaching-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"ERA field trip at Plymouth &#8216;GEES Learning and Teaching&#8217; conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_661\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/acer_screen_waymarker-sml.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-661\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-661\" style=\"margin: 5px 8px;\" title=\"On-site video feed at Devon Great Consols\" src=\"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/acer_screen_waymarker-sml-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On-site video feed at Devon Great Consols.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On July 7th, the ERA team and our Plymouth University GEES collaborators John Maskell, Paul Lunt, Jason Truscott, Matt Sharples and Alison Stokes demonstrated the use of remote learning with ERA technology at the Devon Great Consols site. A minibus load of delegates from both the <a title=\"Link to Conference home\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gees.ac.uk\/events\/2010\/ac2010\/ac2010.htm\" target=\"_blank\">GEES Subject Centre 10th Anniversary Conference<\/a> and the <a title=\"Link to Workshop home\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gees.ac.uk\/events\/2010\/newlect10\/newlect10.htm\" target=\"_blank\">GEES Early Career Lecturers Workshop<\/a> were shown a remote investigation of the site, delivered by John Maskall and Paul Lunt, with Matt Sharples as camera operator.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The network deployed for this demonstration built on previous experience with pairs of <a title=\"Ubiquiti Nanostation2 data sheet .pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ubnt.com\/downloads\/ns2_datasheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Ubiquiti routers<\/a> on different wifi channels to cover a large area for uninterrupted connectivity, providing enough bandwidth for continuous VoIP contact and full frame widescreen video. The delegate audience watched John&#8217;s presentation on a battery powered <a title=\"our Acer monitor on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Acer-S243HLBMI-24-inch-Widescreen-Monitor\/dp\/B002MY522I\" target=\"_blank\">24&#8243; LCD monitor<\/a>, which lasted the duration on a single battery due to it&#8217;s power efficient LED backlighting.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_705\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GEES_demo_network.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-705\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-705 \" style=\"margin: 5px 8px;\" title=\"GEES_demo_network\" src=\"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GEES_demo_network-300x131.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/era-data\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GEES_demo_network-300x131.jpg 300w, http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/era-data\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GEES_demo_network-1024x448.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/era-data\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GEES_demo_network.jpg 1346w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Devon Great consols network diagram<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_673\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/NS2-1_over_valley_sml.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-673\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-673 \" style=\"margin: 5px 8px;\" title=\"NS2-1 looks down to NS2-2\" src=\"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/NS2-1_over_valley_sml-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/era-data\/uploads\/2010\/08\/NS2-1_over_valley_sml-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/era-data\/uploads\/2010\/08\/NS2-1_over_valley_sml-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/era-data\/uploads\/2010\/08\/NS2-1_over_valley_sml.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the top of the site, the first Nanostation overlooks the Tamar Valley<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_674\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/BHP2_to_calciner_up-sml.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-674\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-674 \" style=\"margin: 5px 8px;\" title=\"BHP2-2 looks up from the waste heap\" src=\"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/BHP2_to_calciner_up-sml-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/era-data\/uploads\/2010\/08\/BHP2_to_calciner_up-sml-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/era-data\/uploads\/2010\/08\/BHP2_to_calciner_up-sml-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/era-data\/uploads\/2010\/08\/BHP2_to_calciner_up-sml.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With the calciner in the background, the Bullet2 router stands on the waste heap.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 7th, the ERA team and our Plymouth University GEES collaborators John Maskell, Paul Lunt, Jason Truscott, Matt Sharples and Alison Stokes demonstrated the use of remote learning with ERA technology at the Devon Great Consols site. A minibus load of delegates from both the GEES Subject Centre 10th Anniversary Conference and the GEES [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[47,48,46,3,42,49,39,54,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}