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Education. Roof weather station; Seismograph; Campus 5G; Classroom air

Education · Sector explainer

Explainer

Instruments that teach.

A weather station on the gym roof, a seismograph in the basement, a CO₂ sensor on the classroom wall, a statewide network run by the university down the road. Each chapter puts one education deployment on the stage, lets you change the input that matters and computes what a student would.

Chapters
6
Deployments
5
Readouts
19
Scale
1:1 metres

01 · University mesonet

Spatial density

How far is the nearest station?

A state or provincial mesonet run by a university puts identical towers across the territory so that every town is close to a reading. On a square layout the spacing is √(A/n), and the average distance from any point to its nearest station is about 0.383 times the spacing, the mean distance from a random point in a square to its centre. Set the area and the number of towers.

Spacing
38.7 km
Average distance to the nearest tower
14.8 km
Farthest any point can be
27.4 km
Area per tower
1,500 km²

02 · School weather station

Psychrometry

Is it safe to run outside?

A weather station on the school roof gives the class real numbers and gives the coach a call. The heat index combines temperature and humidity into how hot it feels in shade; this is the US National Weather Service algorithm, the Rothfusz regression with its low- and high-humidity adjustments, and its caution bands. Dew point from the Magnus formula.

Heat index
37.1 °C
Band
Extreme caution
Dew point
23.3 °C

03 · School seismograph

Seismology

S minus P gives the distance.

A seismograph in the school basement records the P wave first and the slower S wave after it. The gap between them grows with distance: d = Δt · Vp·Vs/(Vp − Vs). With typical crustal speeds of about 6 km/s for P and 3.5 km/s for S, that is roughly 8 km for every second of S − P, the rule students use on their own records. Three schools with three distances locate the quake. Set the S − P time read off the trace.

Distance to the quake
101 km
P travel time
16.8 s
S travel time
28.8 s

04 · Classroom air

Mass balance

Thirty students, one window.

A CO₂ sensor on the classroom wall turns ventilation into a number the class can see. At steady state the room sits above outdoor air by the generation rate over the airflow: ΔC = G/Q, with G = 0.0052 L/s per seated adult (children breathe out less, so this errs high) and outdoor air at 420 ppm. The room approaches that level with time constant V/Q. Health Canada’s long-term exposure limit for indoor CO₂ is 1,000 ppm.

Steady-state CO₂
1,720 ppm
Against 1,000 ppm
720 ppm over
Time to 95 % of that
83 min
Air for 1,000 ppm
9.0 L/s per person

05 · Campus private 5G

Link budget

Shared spectrum, counted in cells.

A campus network on shared mid-band spectrum, used for teaching and for research on the network itself. Free-space loss is 20 log d + 20 log f + 32.44 (d in km, f in MHz); buildings, trees and bodies add clutter loss on top. What the link budget leaves sets the cell radius, and hexagonal cells of radius r each cover 2.6 r². Set the band, the budget and the clutter.

Band

Cell radius
332 m
Loss at 100 m in free space
83.6 dB
Cells for the campus
6

06 · Proof

Data literacy

A year of readings per classroom.

What a school board asks to see, from the sector research. The data-literacy case is arithmetic: a station that reports every few minutes gives each class a full year of real, local records to plot, average and question.

Reporting interval

  • Curriculum alignment
  • Safe installation on school property
  • Data-literacy outcomes
  • Low cost per school
Records per variable per year
105,120
Values per station per year
630,720

Instruments that teach.

School stations, university networks and campus testbeds, installed safely, kept running and wired to the classroom.

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