This week I worked a lot more on the user flow of our project and the design of how we wanted to have users add an item and place them on the mat. I integrated having multiple scanners on the hardware into the backend so that any of them can be used to scan an NFC tag. I also adjusted the frontend of our code so that instead of having different ‘pads’, there are different ‘zones’ on a singular pad. I also implemented a notifications page and am working on real-time notifications.
Our progress is currently on schedule and I look to flesh out the front end and have pad sensor processing integration be more clear.
In the next week, I hope to have a successful demo and learn what can be improved about our project. I also want to implement real time notifications for when an item expires.