Blog Post #12

Team MATR delivering prototype presentation. Jack Gonzales demonstrating the map function of the GUI for viewing animal locations.

On Tuesday the team delivered prototype presentations to various UF faculty members and professors for IPPD’s Prototype Inspection Day. Thanks to UF professors and faculty that participated in the event, we received a lot of valuable feedback on our design, and have reviewed the feedback and made plans to amend our design and project plan. The team now has plans to solidify a system level design of the device, that will have to be finalized before our System Level Design Review (SLDR) on December 7th. Among these plans is doing more experimentation to measuring power consumption of our sensor package, to ensure that our design spec of a year long device lifespan can be met with all of the sensors and features we currently have included in our design. Another major plan is to finalize a method of exposing sensors to the outside of the device to collect data on the saltwater environment. This is a challenging problem because we cannot compromise the water proofing of the device, so engineers will have to experiment with some different methods over the coming weeks to determine our best option.

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