Our team is officially one month into our project! So far, we’ve done a lot of research, a lot of planning, and a lot of documentation. One of the highlights from this week was having our first meeting with our liaison from American Express. He met with us via Zoom all the way from Phoenix, AZ. We discussed our current plan for how the BLE app will communicate with beacons and the POS system. Our liaison made some adjustments to our approach, so we are shifting part of our research. We also determined which mobile platform our app prototype will run on. We chose to support Android since our team members have experience with Android app development.

What’s Next?

Now that we have spoken to our liaison, our team needs to iron out the details for our approach on how the app, beacon, and POS communicate with each other. While we are continuing our research, we are also preparing for our first report presentation in 2 weeks. We are excited to present all our research that we’ve been doing this past month.