The risks are being managed by acknowledging and understanding the fact that we really need to determine which design to go with to prevent further hindering of our progress (we are meeting tomorrow to discuss this). Additionally, moving forward, we need to be more careful and check to make sure that we order all the components that we need when we place our orders. For now, we need to make sure that we order this cable ASAP during class on Monday. With the risks that come with both designs, we need to discuss and thoroughly justify which design to go with; by thinking through both designs and reasoning which one makes more sense with our various components, we hope to mitigate and foresee any issues that may arise. Additionally, while implementing each of our individual protocols, we need to keep in mind how each of our components will fit into the design and if any issue or complication is realized while creating the protocol, we should notify each other and discuss the issue immediately.
We have a new constraint of fitting within the time for a timeout – which includes both the transmission time and the error correction time.
The design of the system also changed to a previous approach after consultation. We moved more towards a unit testing approach to streamline how we were testing the protocols, but a pass-through approach with our ‘fuzzing’ microcontroller would be more accurate to the system we are trying to emulate. This new design will be reflected in our design document.
Our timeout was necessary because now we have working constraints to work with. If we had infinite compute time, then we could use any algorithm, but since we are more focused on the aspects of power and time, we should use the real scenario in which it will operate.
That’s also why we changed our overall design to match a more realistic approach and help us move toward our three step plan of a working product.
Neither of these changes should have a higher cost.
We do need to find a new wifi module for our TI Hercules, but this will only bring cost down because we will not have to buy as expensive of an evaluation board to achieve the same results.
We adjusted the GANTT chart to account for the individual testing of each component’s protocol and data transmission (the phases that were discussed during the presentation).