On April 26th, we had our Final Design Report (FDR) event, where we were able to show off our finalized prototype and where the project could go in the future. After presenting to our sponsor and giving a detailed overview of the project’s development and future steps, we got to perform live demonstrations of the prototype at our booth for anyone to see. Our presentation showed the transfer of data from scanning a tag to seeing it on the UI and receiving email notifications. We were also able to highlight the different antenna and tag configurations we tested over the previous months. The day was a great experience that allowed us to celebrate what we were able to accomplish over the past two semesters.

We were all very proud of our work and satisfied with the IPPD program as a whole. The project itself went through a lot of new topics we were able to learn about, such as RFID and the MQTT protocol, and we were able to learn how to manage a project with a multidisciplinary team. Coming from class projects where everyone has the same level of experience and there’s very little to submit or present, IPPD was able to give us a look at how a real company project is developed, including the various presentations, meetings, deadlines, and deliverables that are standard in our fields. We are excited to enter the professional engineering world and we feel that the lessons learned during the past two semesters have prepared us for the transition.

That’s all from us! Below is our video presentation showing the base functionalities of the prototype and what it can do to help Florida Power and Light. It’s been a pleasure working with IPPD and FPL! Thanks for reading and following our journey through this project!