Group

This week our group worked together to prepare for our design presentation. On Monday, we had our meeting with our course staff to review the feedback that we got from our initial proposal presentation, which was very helpful before moving on to the next part of our project. We spent Monday focused on a lot of the small details that needed to be ironed out prior to the design presentation. We also began finalizing the hardware components that we needed for our device, trying to strategize how to use our budget and decide how many of our devices we could feasibly make. Once we had discussed these preliminary details, we split up the work for the design presentation, Ines and Sanjana taking most of the research to back up the work we already presented in the proposal, and Miffy taking lead on the software portion of the project.

Miffy:

This week, I completed the frontend design for our project, ensuring that the interface is clean, user-friendly, and aligned with our use case requirements. I also finalized the design presentation slides, organizing our problem statement, system architecture, quantitative requirements, and implementation plan clearly and concisely. In addition, I finished preparing for the design presentation by reviewing our technical decisions, refining explanations, and practicing delivery to ensure we can confidently communicate our design choices and answer questions effectively.

Link to presentation slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Si-VImtCjxgd-M1Xh7eEwuLIQ57bf04Gz-nYAVE-zok/edit?usp=sharing

Inès:

This week, I worked alongside the group to develop our design presentation. My primary contribution was researching how disease symptoms first appear and identifying how we can detect them effectively. In addition, I conducted in-depth research on the different vegetation indices to better understand their roles and to support our design choices with relevant research papers. I also finalized the selection of all system components and made the block diagram. Here is also i really interesting research paper that explains the most common symptoms for vineyard and what weather conditions cause them: https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/agricultural-production/crop-protection/agricultural-pest-management-resources/identification-guide-major-diseases-grapes

Sanjana:

This week I worked with my group to prepare for our upcoming design presentation. Once we met on Monday to go over the feedback from our proposal, we went over some of the common notes we received from several instructors. This included deciding how exactly we want to position our device, how many of them we will need, how the data collected from the device will actually transmit to the app, etc. Once we had these details ironed out, we could move on to splitting up the work that needed to be done for the design report and presentation. I focused on research to back up the use case and use case requirements portion of our proposal presentation. I also worked on finding research to strengthen the testing and validation portion of our presentation. Finally, I came up with a list of questions that we are sending to Ines’s father who is a vineyard farmer in California, to gain more insight on our project.