Risk Mitigation
One of the biggest risks for our project is testing our software modules and making sure they individually work prior to integration. To combat this, we will be going to grocery stores and taking video footage in order to test our modules. OpenCV makes it very easy to read video files and so this allows us to test our individual modules without having to set things up live. For throughput calculations, we plan on taking video footage of store items moving on the checkout line conveyor belts and processing the footage via our code to check if the calculated throughput makes sense. Similarly, we will take videos of carts moving in the grocery store in order to test our other modules when we finish implementing them.
Design Changes
Nothing has changed about our design as of this week, however, we are considering changing what the throughput calculating module inputs into the database: instead of just storing a calculated throughput, we will store item count and time elapsed in order to more easily keep count of a running average.
Schedule Changes
Nothing has changed about our schedule, our Gantt chart remains the same as before.