Vicky’s Status Report for 4/19

Personal Accomplishments

• • Dash Cam Bringup:
    • Improved the image upload pipeline by adding auto retry on failure
    • Included API Key for GET and POST requests to add security
  • Dash Cam Verification:
    • Verified that the dash cam’s weight is 0.77lbs
    • Verified that the system’s startup script executes within 33s of a power change, recording starts within 41s of a power change, and shutdown script executes within 332ms of a power change
    • Verified that the system reliably transitions its ALPR setting (opt-in/out) within 1s (instantaneous)
    • Verified that the data at rest on the dash cam is erased upon shutdown

Progress

My progress is on schedule.

Schedule

• Final poster, report, and video
• Inference demo script

Tools and Knowledge Learned

The learning strategies that are most helpful to me includes: online videos for dash cam bringup, forums for specific debugging questions, and ChatGPT for conceptual questions.