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MSU Senior Design
Project
Spring Semester 2005
MS
State - www.msstate.edu
ECE
Dept - www.ece.msstate.edu
Senior
Design - /classes/ece4512/
TEAM:
Patrick Ducote
pjd15@msstate.edu
Joel Rogers
jdr173@msstate.edu
Russell Hill
srh34@msstate.edu
Rusty Carruth
rac41@msstate.edu
ADVISOR:
Dr. Noel Schulz
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Spring Semester 2005:
M I T I G A T O R
Initial
Prototype Design
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Project Description:
This project is aimed at creating an electronic device that
will deter animals from causing outages on exposed energized power
distribution equipment. Specifically, this device will deter squirrels and
birds away from high voltage switches and certain substation equipment.
Animals will be kept from nesting or staying in the vicinity of the
energized equipment. Hundreds of thousands of dollars or more are lost every
year from many power utility companies from animal related power outages.
Many of these outages are caused by birds and squirrels either by nesting,
contaminating, or short-circuiting high-voltage equipment. This device will
use high intensity strobe lights, and ultrasonic speakers to deter animals
away from equipment. Motion sensors will also be used to trigger the device
only when an animal is in the target zone. Data storing will be available
for the device to store the time and frequency of its operations. This
information can then be retrieved through a RS232 port on the device.
Our Design Proposal: # 93 : http://www.ece.msstate.edu/classes/design/proposals/
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