Week 11 was primarily focused on the PID event. We learned a lot of new things about our designs and where we should be heading when it comes to both the software and hardware of our gateway service. One of the things that stood out was the modularity of our node. Based on our discussion with various professionals, we decided that it would be best to have different types of nodes that come with a suite of sensors that can be activated depending on what you’d like to track. For example, one of the nodes will be for air monitoring, which contains various sensors within it such as temperature, humidity, and air pressure, among others.

This week, the software and hardware teams have coordinated and created their milestones for the project timeline. As of right now, software is focused on creating a schema for Supabase and implementing the first iteration of the database. We are considering migrating to PostgreSQL hosted on the cloud server for ease of development and management of the server, but for now we are sticking with Supabase. They are also focused on creating a new dashboard that builds upon the existing one that was made by a senior design team. Hardware is focused on integrating more sensors into the node such as air quality and pressure which will be parsed in the backend and sent to the database.

During our demonstration, we took a variety of notes, so we have a lot of information from professionals that can be used to improve our design.

After this event, we have much more knowledge on how we should conduct this project for the highest chance of success. We believe our project is very innovative, and could have a huge impact on the construction industry as a whole, so getting valuable advice from scholars that have experience in a variety of fields will help us achieve this goal.