Status Report 3
Team: Alex Goldyuk, Amine Hocine, Alexander Lewoczko, Lexi Reicks, Ryan Toepfer, Armando Vila
Report Date: 2/27/2020
Project: Indicoop/Wireless Backyard Chicken Coop
Project Status: In-Progress
Status:
| Past Week accomplishments Status ETA |
| Working Web Skeleton |
| First meeting of the Semester |
| Prototype results were distributed |
| Fixing Battery Life Issues |
| Sensors Working |
| Push Notifications |
- Web Portal -Lexi
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- Lexi has set up the front-end using Angular. It is currently running using mock data in place of actual sensor data. An issue with the back-end communication on local servers was found and we are currently implementing a fix for that issue that will implemented before our next round of tests begins over Spring Break.
- Text Notifications -Armando
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- Using Twilio Armando has set up an alert text to be sent up after a threshold is met. This message can contain food, water and temp sensor readings with it primarily being used to get low temperature or low food emergency updates.
- Battery Issue’s - Ryan and Alexander L.
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- Ryan and Alexander found that the idle power draw was exceeding 60mA and that a communication or sensor reading time would be ranging in the 80-200mA range. So as too radically reduce the battery consumption in idle we found that the ESP board was not actually being put in a sleep state the way we were using the board and it’s rest() features, After doing a correct implementation of rest features our power draw was brought well below 20mA and extends our battery life multiple fold.
- Heat Sensor - Amine, Alex
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- The heat sensor and weight sensor are now both in the same interface and ready to be deployed for testing over the next week’s so that a full run in the Coop can be done on Spring Break.
Plans for the next weeks:
- Front-end - Lexi, Ryan
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- Push Notifications - Armando Vila
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- Use Live Data in updates.
- Run Trials and Peer Evaluation Presentation - Alex G, Amine
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- Getting the results of the water temp sensor to be read out to the board an added to the data sent will done.
- Adjust for results from trials - Alexander, Ryan
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- Making any modifications necessary to adjust device functionality based on results from trials.
Pending Issues:
- Database not being able to be reached - Lexi
Hours:
| Name |
Contributions |
Bi-Weekly Hours |
Cumulative |
| Armando Vila |
Tested sending push notifications |
6 |
99 |
| Alex Goldyuk |
Helped diagnose battery problems |
6 |
118 |
| Alexander Lewoczko |
Ordering new parts and repairing the old ones |
6 |
96 |
| Amine Hocine |
Fixed the battery life issues |
7 |
115 |
| Lexi Reicks |
Getting front end to start receiving data to display |
7 |
122 |
| Ryan Toepfer |
Fixing the battery issues |
7 |
129 |