Now that we’re back from our short and sweet Thanksgiving break, it’s time to finish the semester strong. The System Level Design Review (SLDR) event is on December 6th, where we will be presenting what we learned through from our… Read More
Prototype Inspection Day
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… Read More
Prototype Nearing Completion
With the prototype nearing completion, things are looking optimistic for Team Investigator. The GPS is able to obtain latitude and longitude information, the RFID reader is able to read tags and obtain the serial numbers, and we ended up using… Read More
Initial Prototype Development
This week we have been working on our initial prototype. Our major goal with this version of the prototype is to get the flow of information down from the sensors to the database. We have been able to get a… Read More
Building the Prototype
Last week, we had a great time presenting our Preliminary Design Review to Florida Power and Light sponsors and subject matter experts, and we were able to get our preliminary design report finalized and signed off. We are working now… Read More
Presenting the PDR
This week at InvestiGators, we had or Preliminary Design Review (PDR) presentation. During the presentation, we outlined our understanding of the project’s goals and our current plans on implementing the RFID sensor system. We described FPL’s problem and how our… Read More
Preliminary Design
Welcome to Week 6 of the Investigator blog post. This week we met with our team multiple times in preparation for the preliminary design review presentation we have coming up. We got together and created a presentation that encapsulates the… Read More
Strides Forward with the Project
After quite the eventful week with Hurricane Ian passing through and school closing down, the team has gotten together to start planning the type of materials were will purchase for the prototype of the RFID system. Everyone got a different… Read More
Lean Six Sigma
Last Saturday our team attended the Lean Six Sigma team building workshop hosted by our sponsor, FPL. We learned how to reduce waste by streamlining processes and improving quality through problem solving. It was a lot of fun to practice… Read More
Building System Requirements
This week, we built out a project roadmap and risk analysis using the research on RFIDs we had done. The above graphic shows how RFID technology, especially passive RFID tags, use a lot less energy than IOT sensors for other… Read More
Let’s Get to Know Each Other
This week at InvestiGator, we had a ton of meetings. The team got to officially meet our liaison, Scarlett Luis, who was very enthusiastic about the project and helped clear up some of the questions we had about the Scope… Read More
Enter: Team InvestiGator
Welcome to the first blog post for the Investi-Gator team. Over the past week our team met and ensured everyone understood the scope of the task that we have been presented. We set up recurring meetings with each other as well as reached… Read More