Over this past week, our team worked on putting together a presentation and showing it for our QRB2. We also worked further on building our prototype, which is currently in the following stages: RFID Reader System: We have decided in… Read More
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Polishing Our Prototype
Team InvestiGator is currently in the last phase of development for this project. We have nearly finalized a working design with all the subsystems in place as shown in the image below. As you can see, the microcontroller is communicating… 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
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