Now that we’ve met each other, the team began building the foundation for our work for the rest of the year. The first step of this was doing a full analysis of our scope of work, identifying our stakeholders, and figuring out our priorities.

Our goal is to create an AI and computer vision system that can take video of cell towers collected by a drone, and estimate the orientation of the antennae to ensure they are properly aligned. As part of this, we need to select the camera that would be on the drone, and create an interface for engineers to upload the data and view the result.

With this established, we were then able to create our logo and team charter. We then made preparations for our upcoming meeting with the liaison engineer from Verizon, preparing what questions to asks, what information we need, and what areas we could use their insight on.

Some members of the team were also able to meet the executive sponsor from Verizon, Abhitabh Kushwaha during the Career Showcase. He was enthusiastic about the project, and the team looks forward to working with him.