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\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I additionally started playing with code for linking our microcontrollers to the web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0 I began to experiment with the PIR sensors for occupancy detection. I determined area of detection and explored feasible … <\/p>\n