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Exercise: Designing a Monitoring System

An in-class activity from the course slides — reproduced here so you can find it again after class.

📋 What to do

Slide for Exercise: Designing a Monitoring System
  1. Sketch a monitoring system from its components: sensor(s), data recording, database, data extraction, reporting.
  2. Try the example API call in your browser URL bar: https://api.cat-apps.com/preview/granddata?geoid=36109
  3. Note: this API is not available 1 AM ~ 7 AM EST.

📮 Submit

Share your monitoring-system sketch in class, then submit it on CANVAS (1 pt) — graded on completion.

Note: these instructions are the current version — the activity is written and kept up to date on this page, links to slide decks and helper materials included. Submit on Canvas; the due date and your grade live there.