Team’s Status Report for 11/05

As a team we decided to try to finish as much as possible to show our working parts of the project in the interim demo. We met twice outside of class time to work on our respective parts of the project. We built five nodes and powered them with a 9V barrel jack and created a reset button that resets all the boards when pressed to make testing the networking with many nodes  easier. We also implemented Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), the first phase of our routing algorithm, as well as LSA (replicated on a node instead of on the RPi). In order to test the topology, we gathered logs over UART from 4 nodes, and checked that a line and fully-connected topology were reduced to a line and star topology, respectively. In a separate program, we got a node to use timer interrupts to time taking a measurement from the temperature sensor and go into standby mode. The web application was finished as an individual part of the project and is waiting until the remaining of the project is done to be fully integrated. The expectation is that the network will be the focus for all of us in the remaining weeks.