Reid’s Status Report for 2/20/21

This week, I worked on researching the OBD2 port and finding an optimal technical solution to our problem. After shifting from our initial smart heater idea, I thought of this idea as something that built off a past internship that tracked hard braking and turning to improve street design. I helped design our initial outline of which devices we will be using and how they communicate with each other. I was able to find a OBD2 to Bluetooth device that could communicate directly with our onboard Raspberry Pi, one of the port alternatives that we are looking at. I also researched the OBD2 communication protocol to see the feasibility of reading directly from the port, which looks like it can be manageable using correct bitshifting. I also looked at some gyroscopes and IMUs, as Professor Mukherjee suggested, but am still unsure if they can provide the same data accuracy and breadth that CAN data does.