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title: Mussel-driven voting system

date: 2025-04-23

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# Abstract

TODO

# Introduction

A system in Poland to monitor water treatment plants
uses mussels as bioindicators
[@FerreiraRodriguez2023].
The system, SYMBIO,
measures once per second the opening level of 8 freshwater mussels
by way of a magnet glued to each mussel
[@Prote2024].
If either half of the mussels close rapidly
or one of them remains closed for longer time,
an alarm is triggered and further laboratory tests are done
[@Nazaruk2016].

This project will implement mechanisms like the polish system.

## Detecting stressful mussel behavior

The use of a mussel as biodetector requires distinction
between slow-paced valve gaping change (normal),
paused valve gaping at the closed position (resting or starved)
and rapid valve gaping change (stressed)
[@Miller2022 p. 1097; @Robson2006 p. 1200].

Detecting behavioural change to a rapid gaping pace,
measurements are needed at a much higher sampling rate
than that of the normal gaping pace.
E.g. one mussel with normal gaping pace of about 1 minute
required a sample rate of 5 seconds to detect its normal pace,
and another mussel with normal gaping pace of 3-4 minutes
required a sample rate of 0.5 seconds to detect more rapid cycles
[@Robson2009 p. 195].
Another measurement of both normal and stressed behaviour,
assuming that x-axis is in seconds (not hours as indicated),
similarly shows a need for fast sampling rate
to detect a normal pace of about 1.2 minutes
and a stressed pace faster than the visualized resolution
of about 1 second
[@FerreiraRodriguez2023 fig. 2].

## Copyright and licensing

To encourage collaboration and stimulate a circular gift economy
as introduced by @Mikkelsen2000,
this project is copyleft licensed:
Code parts are licensed
under the GNU Public Licence version 3 or newer,
and non-code parts are licensed
under the Creative Commons crediting share-alike 4.0.

# Project Planning

TODO

# Analysis and Design

TODO

# Description of the Program

TODO

# User Guide

TODO

# Testing

TODO

# Discussion

TODO

# Conclusion

TODO

# Bibliography {.appendix}

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# Arduino project code {.appendix}

## mussel 1

```{.c include="mussel1/mussel1.ino" code-line-numbers="true"}
```

## mussel 2

```{.c include="mussel2/mussel2.ino" code-line-numbers="true"}
```

## mussel 3

```{.c include="mussel3/mussel3.ino" code-line-numbers="true"}
```

## mussel 4

```{.c include="mussel4/mussel4.ino" code-line-numbers="true"}
```

## mussel 5

```{.c include="mussel5/mussel5.ino" code-line-numbers="true"}
```

## mussel 6

```{.c include="mussel6/mussel6.ino" code-line-numbers="true"}
```
