On Tuesday of this week, we had our prototype inspection day. Our team’s weekly meeting was used to finalize the prototype and decide on roles for the presentation. The goal of our prototype was to test the flow of information in our system. Our prototype consists of an RFID reader, RFID tags, a microcontroller (ESP8266), a GPS module, and a router. Our prototype process starts with the RFID reader. Once the reader detects an RFID tag our microcontroller pulls the current latitude and longitude from the GPS module. We can then connect to a local Wi-Fi network due to our microcontroller, the ESP8266, having a built-in Wi-Fi module. We then send the data through the local network using a router. This data includes the RFID tag serial number and the GPS location. This gets sent to a server and pulled into our database along with a date and time stamp. 

We also received some useful feedback from the judges. Our judges made a few suggestions on how we could improve our project. They suggested adding a system to send an alert if the asset we are looking for is not in its proper location. We are going to take their feedback and incorporate it into our solution. 

Along with the prototype inspection we had our weekly meeting with our liaison and coach. We showed our project progress in our meetings and discussed what the next steps of our project will be.