Neville Status Report 02/12

I spent the very early part of this week completing my section of slides for the proposal presentation. The latter part was spent researching the communication and storage design requirements our system might need. I looked into wireless techniques that were applicable to smart city parking lots and explored their tradeoffs and implementation subtleties. The wireless technologies I explored were Cellular (4G), Zigbee, Wi-Fi and LoraWan  (https://blues.io/blog/network-connectivity/). Wi-Fi was a widely-adopted solution on Arduino boards and had documentation on connectivity to an MQTT broker or upstream database. Cellular and LoraWan (https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/) )had smaller bandwidth but more easily usable outside and consumed lower power. This week I hope to settle on one of these three choices after experimenting with E2E that its protocols are compatible with an Arduino/Raspberry IDE to send data to a subscriber.