Brick by Bit had another productive week focused on project refinement and technical advancement. Our team made significant strides in clarifying our project scope and establishing key connections with stakeholders and technical leads through several important meetings. Our session with our liaison, Dr. Costin, provided valuable project and lab insights, including an overview of the SCI-Lab facilities, while our meeting with Dev, the current software lead helped our understanding of the existing technical landscape.

We have successfully narrowed our focus to complement the ongoing secure communication work between nodes. Our primary objectives now center on establishing cloud server infrastructure and creating a gateway-to-cloud connection. This focus will help us deliver a working prototype that serves as a foundation for future feature expansion (in the coming semester, perhaps). During our brainstorming sessions, we generated several ideas including mobile applications, secure over-the-air updates with fail-over strategies, and custom PCB development that we can implement once our core infrastructure is established.

Looking ahead, our immediate objectives include establishing connections with external stakeholders to gain construction site insights, developing multiple architectural diagrams describing our planned system design, researching hardware board testing methodologies for our specific use cases, and preparing presentation materials for our preliminary design architecture review. With our project scope clearly defined, we are set up for implementation of our cloud infrastructure and gateway connectivity objectives. Our focus remains on delivering a working prototype that can serve as a platform for the features we’ve brainstormed.

We have also revamped our logo!

Meeting with our liaison to discuss project details!