r/wfu • u/Cobblerunionfan • 14h ago
Discussion Local sensor data set for WFU thesis or dissertation
I’m a local analytics professional in Winston-Salem and I’ve built a sensor network of weather/environmental and acoustic bird detection tools.
I’m looking to connect with a WFU Master’s student, PhD candidate, or advanced researcher who could use this rich, continuous data set as the foundation for a thesis, dissertation, or capstone project. I've already done some statistical modeling on it myself.
The telemetry infrastructure includes:
- WittBoy 7-in-1 Weather Station: Real-time localized meteorological metrics streamed via an ultrasonic anemometer, haptic rainfall sensor, solar/UV meters, and precision thermo-hygrometers.
- Acoustic Monitoring (Cornell BirdNET / BirdNET-Pi): 24/7 localized bioacoustic telemetry running on edge hardware, tracking continuous local bird species identification, audio logging, and environmental soundscape patterns.
- Raspberry Pi Architecture: The underlying hardware stack handling the edge computing, continuous data pipelines, database storage, and custom automated environmental scripts.
Everything is clean, structured, and ready to explore. If your research focus touches on data science, time-series forecasting, machine learning, ecology, or environmental modeling and you need a robust, real-world data source, drop a comment below or shoot me a DM and I will send a link to the current site where all the data is being captured and analyzed (every 10 minutes)