Jake’s Status Report for 2/12

I conducted a lot of research into our use case, the seating situation in the UC, and gathered a few metrics that could be used to drive our requirements and began preliminary design around these. Primarily  I began to experiment with the PIR sensors for occupancy detection. I determined area of detection and explored feasible deployment techniques. We will likely focus our sensors directly downward from underneath the table. As most sensors we are looking at have a cone of detection < 120 degrees this ensures we can detect occupancy at any direction around the table with a single sensors as well as ignore the noise of passing students.  I additionally started playing with code for linking our microcontrollers to the web.