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Nathan Ang’s Status Report for Sep 18 2021

What did you personally accomplish this week on the project?

This week I focused on researching of potential technologies for our project. Specifically, I looked into sensors to detect occupancy. I took a look into varying sensors (IR, Computer Vision, Pressure), and I started looked online for purchase options.

Also, I took up the task of dividing up work for the Project Proposal presentation and helped hash out a coherent schedule for the project. What stood out to me was how little time we had to realistically produce an amazing project, so I am now in grind mode.

Is your progress on schedule or behind?

It is very early in the project and we just made the schedule, but we seem to currently be on schedule.  I have no doubts that conflicts will arise as we work on the project, but I looking forward to solving issues in our project together!

What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?

This coming week, my task is to research the occupancy sensor side of the project. I will finalize a purchase on parts needed on this hardware side with plenty of reasoning. I can’t wait for the weeks to come!

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William Foy’s Status Report for Sep 18 2021

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.

 

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Jonathan Cheng’s Status Report for Sep 18 2021

This week I focused on coordinated research of potential technologies for our project. I was personally looking into software technologies for our web-app, as well as different types of sensors. During our mandatory lab meetings, we collaboratively conducted research for our project design and formed presentation slides.

In addition, I took the task of setting up our team website and writing our team introduction and project overview. This weekend we, as a team, will be preparing 12 slides (of which I created 3) for our Proposal Presentation. Research, design, and rehearsal will all be part of this week’s weekend meetings.

We seem to be on schedule, perhaps slightly behind on the research side. Since our product has multiple components that are relatively unexplored by the team, we have to make sure that we consider many viable options.

This coming week I plan to present our most promising software technologies to the rest of the team and finalize our tech stack for the web-app, and even start implementation of preliminary software components.