Team InvestiGator recently completed a successful prototype inspection day for their senior design project. The project showcased the capabilities of their UHF RFID asset management system. During the prototype inspection day, the team demonstrated the system’s capabilities to a panel… Read More
Tag: RFID
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
Integration Begins
This week, all necessary parts are in and the combination of these pieces has begun. The main pieces of concern are the cellular data and GPS combo module, RFID reader, microcontroller, and the server/database. Communication between these parts is currently… Read More
Start of Testing
Welcome to this week’s investigator Blog post. This week we had our first quarterly review board presentation to showcase the accomplishments we have completed so far and what our next steps are in completing our project. Over the past weeks we have… Read More
Making Purchases
Much of the Fall semester was spent on planning and deciding what components needed to be purchased and from where to properly deliver the final version of our prototype. With all that in mind, Team InvestiGator has officially got back… 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
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
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
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