Giovanni Maddalozzo Status Report for 2/21/2026

This week I worked on looking at the Firebase/Firestore solution. I will have to upgrade our plan to the non-basic plan to get access to the cloud functions. This is fine though because I would only be charged if we go over the “free” quota, which will probably won’t happen for capstone. Also, I figured out how to simplify our backend a bit. We can send the image to Firebase Storage with metadata attached. Then on upload, we can have a cloud function run and insert everything into our database. So we only need 1 cloud function instead of 2 and this will ensure we never go over our limits as well. I created the backend database in Google Firebase. I also ordered more parts, specifically the raspberry Pi.  I am still on track and then next week I hope to show a prototype of of the working code and finish ordering all parts.