This past week our team worked on adapting to the changing situation and the shift to virtual classes and projects. From a team perspective, we worked to establish regular channels of communication, and scheduled recurring zoom meetings for Monday and Wednesday 11:00-12:30 and Thursday 1:30-2:30. In addition, we began the discussion of how we can communicate problems, progress, and questions outside of those meetings
Outside of the team dynamic, we also worked on our statement of work. This document details how our project needs to be changed so that it can be done entirely virtually. Due to the rapidly shifting situation and the sporadic shipping of parts, we have decided to (almost) entirely remove hardware from the project. The only exception is that Rip will obtain a few small IoT devices that support developer APIs and use them to generate sensor data sets. From that point forward, we will simulate the entire system (sensors, hardware, network, etc.) in the cloud, and serve the sensor data that rip recorded.
Besides the hardware changes, the webapp and device interactions remain largely the same. The main difference with those is that they will now be hosted on a cloud server, as opposed to on a local IoT device.
