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Team Status Reports for 02/10/24

  1. What are the most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the project? How are these risks being managed? What contingency plans are ready?

Right now, the most significant risks to our project are related to sensors. We don’t have many sensors yet, and we must test them to ensure that they will work as expected. Our contingency plans are to use different sensors for each characteristic of the liquid we want to measure, in case we determine that a sensor is not a viable choice.

2. Were any changes made to the existing design of the system (requirements, block diagram, system spec, etc)? Why was this change necessary, what costs does the change incur, and how will these costs be mitigated going forward?

No changes have been made yet. Over this week, we will work on updating the use-case requirements as requested in our presentation feedback. This will probably not cause major changes but will give us a clearer direction in terms of latency, battery life, and food safety.

3. Provide an updated schedule if changes have occurred.

-Nothing

 

4. This is also the place to put some photos of your progress or to brag about a component you got working.

-Nothing

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Alan’s status report for 02/17/24

  • What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or

photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient

effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours).

At the start of the week, I spent a lot of time setting up my environment for React Native development (I ran into a lot of problems during set up, but was able to figure them out). After this, I did some work on addressing the feedback we had received from our last presentation. I found the 3-A sanitary standards for sensors (https://www.omega.com/en-us/resources/3a-sensors-sanitary-applications ), which I used to updated our use-case requirements. I also updated other use case requirements on which we had received feedback. Then, I worked on the slides for the design review and on rehearsing the presentation. I also did an initial draft (in bullet points) of our design review writeup.

In the meantime, as a team, we analyzed some more materials for the project, and I placed most of the orders and tracked them in the BOM. Finally, I did some more reading on React Native and Arduino bluetooth interaction and analyzed options for libraries to use in this space.

  • Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will betaken to catch up to the project schedule?

My progress is on schedule.

 

  • What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?

By next week, we should receive our second bluetooth-capable Seeed board. Once I have that (which should be on Monday), I will use it to test bluetooth code from the arduino end. I will also work on adding boilerplate code for the React Native Bluetooth interaction. Finally, I will (in collaboration with other team members) turn the Design Review draft into a much more developed version (as it is due on the 31st), incorporating the feedback we receive in our Design Review presentation.