My hamsters activity index (OC)

in #dataisbeautiful8 years ago (edited)

I am the proud owner of a long-haired Syrian hamster named Timmy. But I am often away for a couple of days. I was worried about the well-being of my hamster in those days. So I build a little surveillance station to track Timmys activity.


This is Timmy. In the lower right you can see the sensor.

The set-up is quite simpel. A cheap HC-SR501 PIR infrarot sensor is connected to a Raspberry Pi 2 and draws charts with the monitoring tool munin. The interval for munin to draw charts is five minutes. Therefore I check all motions per five minutes.


Daily activity.


Weekly activity (I think he had a party in the morning of the 23rd).


Monthly activity (Monitor was not working in week 40).