This week I focused on researching potential chair sensors to use to detect occupancy and also which microcontrollers and Zigbee modules to potentially use. During lab, I worked with the team to coordinate the development of our proposal slides and to narrow down which sensor would be the most feasible for our project. I personally made 4 of the slides in our slide deck and contributed to the Gantt chart for our schedule.
We seem to be on schedule since we will have our proposal ready to go by Sunday night. We’ve been doing significant research and I think we are at a good place in regard to narrowing down how we will implement a solution and meet our requirements.
Next week, in addition to hearing other presentations and giving feedback, I plan to help my team research more and further our design, specifically for the chair sensor component which I will be working on. We need to figure out exactly what sensor we want to use, and how to connect a Zigbee module to the sensor through a microcontroller.