Embedded Systems Design (EGR 314)

Team 201: Environmental Condition Sensor Array
Students: Aiden Lynch, Richard Kovalcik, Glen Stevens

This team designed a cohesive embedded system that monitors temperature and humidity levels to alert users about possible mold growth in their homes.

Team 202
Students: Miguel Chacon Cuesta, Carlos Chacon Cuesta, Wyatte Ricks

Bathrooms have high levels of humidity which can lead to a buildup of black mold. One of the main reasons for the buildup of mold is poor ventilation which results in a humid and moist environment. Bathroom ventilation fans are noisy and are commonly activated by a switch, which requires a user to manually turn it on or off. This leads to users neglecting to use the fans or forgetting to turn them off, causing excess energy wastage. To address this issue, this team is developing an automated switch device that can sit on top of an existing fan switch. This provides an easy-to-use fan timer, without needing to modify the house wiring or remove the switch, and enables further IoT integrations.

Team 203
Students: Madison Hedges, Zachary Felty, Hasan Kaysan, Morgan Strube

This project utilizes weather sensors to maintain plant life in an enclosed space. Within a box, different sensors work together to show the health of the plant environment to the user so that the plants have a greater chance of sprouting.

Team 204
Students: Nicholas Dunn, Eduardo Lopez, Richard Green

This team created a terrarium control system that has an embedded PCB with a two-way micro controller communication, moving motors and easily understandable temperature readings that will turn on a fan if the temperature passes a certain point.

Team 205: Missing Umbrella
Students: Deepit Arora, Michael Gross, Enoch Choi, Amy Joyce Valencia 

This team’s mission is to design and develop an embedded system that incorporates environmental sensors, providing users with real-time data on temperature and wind speed. By leveraging affordability and small form-factor technologies, they strive to deliver a product that will benefit the user and exceed their expectations.

Team 206: Research Weather Boat
Students: Jacob Pisors, Claire Rogers, Gavin Benvenuto, Abigail Gordon

This group was tasked with designing a mobile weather station. Designing a PCB, 2 I2C sensors and an SPI motor, as well as programming our micro controller and Wi-Fi module were the main challenges. Their end solution is a research weather sailboat.

Team 207
Students: Daymon Wilkins, Hector Peralta, Stefano Greco, Ragde Chaira

This project measures the local temperature and wind speed in order to deploy a protective covering over a planter box to ensure that the plants inside are not harmed by environmental factors.

Team 208
Students: Miles Wilson, Kyle Selasky, Felicia Szleszinski, Mingqi Yu

The goal of this project is to create a therapy device for individuals with nerve damage in the hand. The team created a glove that senses the force being applied to an object and dynamically changes the resistance of bands attached to each finger. This will force the hand to grip with less pressure to avoid crushing the object being held. The glove also has a temperature sensor to sense anything that would burn the hand. Data is relayed visually through a few LEDs and wirelessly to an external server. The glove’s resistance-changing motor can also be controlled directly through a serial terminal.

Team 302: Hail Armory
Students: Tyler Winder, Sam Kohler, Jose Nava-Mesina, Tilak Raj Thanga Raj

Every year in the U.S., there are at least 10,000 storms that have hail big enough to damage solar panels. With the growth of solar panels, the risk of them getting damaged increases. This team’s goal is to solve that issue.

Team 303
Students: Zhengbin Chen, Abdulrizak Husein, Sivanee Naghichetty, Prem Kumar

This team’s mission is to design and construct a robotic device that can demonstrate simplicity, portability and precise detection of temperature and humidity. Our team is committed to developing a product that can be accessed by a mobile phone connected to WiFi, while also providing a motion capability that can be detected by moving into tight places.

Team 304
Students: Trent Packer, Cayman Preston, Brendon Salido, Levi Transtrum

This team’s goal is to design and manufacture a WiFi enabled weather-sensing device.

Team 305
Students: Tristan Dunton, Aaron Karsten, Mark Alvarez, Kevin Hays

Climate Sensing

Team 306
Students: Nathan Hoge, Dylan Turner, Samuel Striffler, Jedriq Ventura

This team is tasked with making a mobile weather station with at least two sensors, a switching regulator, and motor articulation dependent on sensor input. Success in this project will rely on member participation in the integration of the device and the overall device readiness of its subsystems. Success will also be measured through the creation of a robust, high-quality device with a straightforward and convenient operation for the end user.

Team 307
Students: Connor O’Hara, Samuel Masamitsu, Jadrian Padilla, Jacob Tangeman

This team was tasked with designing and building a mobile weather station. Students went about this by designing a small enclosed dome with sensors to read the temperature and humidity inside. When the humidity gets too low, an actuator will cause a squirt bottle to spray water.

 Team 308
Students: Andrew Sarrasin, Jeff Davis, Lina Mayyas, Marla Hawthorne

This project entails the design of a mobile weather station. This includes two sensors connected to a micro controller that allows for motor output. The goal is to demonstrate a digital output to an external device with data from internal sensors.

Team SF-Echo
Students: Fatema Alshehhi, Salsabil Soliman

This team designed a solar panel with an instant cleaner that senses the temperature and cleans the panel based on the data.

Team 102: Visual Helmet
Students: Ali Aldaaysi, Gil Ruiz, Matthew Tucker, Daymon Wilkins

The purpose of this project is to create a helmet that provides a combination of assistive technologies for those who are visually impaired. The device they designed allows users to have awareness of an object approaching them and the distance and speed at which it is approaching.

Team 103: The Predator
Students: Michael Femiani, Haylee Mastoris, Juan Ramirez, Kaijie Wang

The Predator is a modular shoulder mount that will measure distances and GPS coordinates and display them on an LCD screen. The purpose of the project is to give industry workers, such as surveyors, a wearable and user friendly device to measure distances and store the data for future reference.

Team 104: K-9 Tac-Tech Vest
Students: Anthony Baldacci, Adriana Juarez-Lara, Tanner Souza, Dominick Vallelonga

This project aims to enhance police K-9 unit vests with technology that will elevate the unit’s ability to execute on the line of duty. The K-9 TacTech Vest is equipped with temperature sensing, GPS tracking, LED lighting and WiFi-controlled sound commands. The WiFi commands will come from a phone app controlled by the K-9 officer, allowing them to communicate sound commands at different pitches to the K-9.

Team 105: Smartpack
Students: Isaiah Begay, Vanderson Cunjuca, Milan Patel, Logan Spearin

The function of the Smartpack is to enable a means of communication for a user with aphasia/dysphasia in today’s Covid era. The Smartpack is mounted to the users back in an active state and a complement of infrared proximity sensors will trigger to the user, via a vibration motor, whether a person is within a six-foot radius of the user’s backside. In addition to the trigger, the user can display, via conductive pads mounted to the strap of the Smartpack, a variety of predefined messages on an LCD (i.e., respect social distancing protocol) to the person within the user’s space.

Team 106: The AutoHood
Students: Aaron Clatone, Sage Furman, Tyler Hulson, Michael Reynolds

The project is aimed towards individuals who seek a low-cost mechatronic solution to unpredictable rainy weather conditions. The AutoHood is designed to solve this problem by providing shelter in the form of a hood in the event of rainfall and cold weather. The device will include various sensors to predict rainfall allowing the device to warn the user in the form of a phone notification and deploy the device.

Team 107: Smart Gloves
Students: Noah Asherbranner, Austin Corona, Xianyao Liu, Niglan Quevedo

This team designed wearable technology in the form of gloves to help individuals who are more susceptible to Covid-19 or other illnesses, to help maintain health precautions. It can help those who may not be able to communicate verbally, or those who would like to visually send a message to others. This will be achieved by using an LCD screen to display messages based on the ultrasonic or pressure sensors and user input.

Team 108: Helmet Buddy
Students: Kenneth Cunningham, Nicholas Knowles, Alec Tran, Benjamin Yee

The Helmet Buddy is a smart add-on device meant for existing bicycle helmets to improve rider safety. It will enhance the safety of cyclists by increasing their awareness to surrounding motorists to decrease the frequency of accidents. This add-on device will include the following features: A smart LED headlight that automatically adjusts its brightness according to the brightness of the surrounding environment to improve visibility, an automatic brake light that turns on and flashes when the cyclist decelerates, turn signals to help others predict the cyclist’s path and a fall detection precept that will send an alert message if the cyclist has fallen and is not responsive.

Team 109: Fur-ever Safe
Students: Alexys Antell, Hannah Brown, Elizabeth Evans, Zachary Goode, Yujia Wang

The premise of this project is to design and create a plant system that will be able to provide red, green or blue light to a plant, detect the water level, display the plant’s information for the user via a LCD screen and protect the plant from animals and pets using a spray bottle. This will put the plant parents’ mind at ease when it comes to the health and safety of their plant.

Team 110: Adaptable Smart Helmet
Students: Ryan Clark, Kenneth Hodson, Alexander Potts

The Adaptable Smart Helmet is a head-mounted data logger that can fit underneath a variety of different helmets. It is intended for use primarily by bikers or skydivers. The device collects information about the movement of the user and displays it on a heads-up display. It can use the information gathered from its three-axis accelerometer to show the user’s acceleration and average speed, and can send out a distress call to contacts if high acceleration is detected (such as a fall or impact). Data collected from the device is also sent over WiFi to a phone or computer, to be stored for later use.

Team 201: Project Bee
Students: Daniel Espinoza Pena, Nicholas Johnson, Logan Suffredini, Xiaoyan Lin

This project aims to create a wearable technology for those involved in combat sports. It includes a sensor that attaches to the user’s glove and give them data based on a workout or fight. Data gathered can include a punch count, punch force and punch speed. The data can be sent to the user’s phone using WiFi so that the user can track their data to show possible areas of improvement.

Team: 202: Plant Sweater
Students: Matthew DSouza, Anita Lu, Ian Mansfield, Madelyn Molnar

This team created a wearable technology for a person, animal, or plant. The plant sweater is a robotic cover for plants that can deploy when night falls and it gets cold. This will help plant enthusiasts protect their plants from the cold so that they can enjoy them for longer periods of time without manually having to put plant covers on their plants. This automated protection will be achieved through the use of both a temperature and daylight sensor that monitor conditions around the plant, and a motor that deploys the cover when the sensors indicate that outside conditions are no longer favorable for the plant.

Team 203: Standing Straight Machine
Students: Jiaji Chen, Christopher Friend, Brian Kenney, Braden Williams

The purpose of this product is to assist those with poor posture in the seated position by providing gentle reminders to correct their position. The product will have a built in pressure sensor that will detect when the user is not properly positioned in their chair. This will work in coordination with a temperature sensor that will be monitoring temperature between them and the back of their chair. When the device senses an incorrect posture it will activate the built-in motor. The motor will move in the forward position when the user needs to sit up straight, and move in reverse after they have sustained improved posture.

Team 204: Gyroscopic 3D Arm
Students: Erik Alegria, Nicholas Dunn, Dalton Tebbs, Aahan Venkatesh

The purpose of this project is to create a robotic third arm to help the human body not only carry, but stabilize an object so that the wearer has free hands. The project will have a total of three motors that will move with given data from a gyroscopic sensor. The motors will rotate on the X, Y and Z axis giving the device a full range of motion.

Team 205: Watching Distance
Students: Noah Blevins, Jose Diaz, Sai Srinivas Tatwik Meesala, Samir Strasser

Team 206: Trackpack
Students: Paulina Garibay Jaquez, Justin Little-Sagg, Jacqueline Villanueva Castro, James Zaverdas

The purpose of this project is to create a trackable backpack that has a temperature sensor to measure the ambient temperature as well as eight LED lights on top of the device to be used for communication for the wearer. The backpack can be used by children for their walks to school, or those attending an amusement park. Hikers, campers and even mountain bikers can use the Trackpack as a way for friends or family to locate them while on their trip. The LED’s are for communicating with the wearer. If the child has wondered from their parents, their parents can signal the LED’s notifying the child to return to the parents.

Team 207: Mountaineer’s Lifeline
Students: Seth Altobelli, Max Gao, Reagan Gillespie, Danis Nugroho

Mountaineer’s lifeline is a wearable vital monitoring device that can track the physiological status of a high-altitude athlete to optimize their performance while keeping them safe from dangerous situations such as altitude sickness aor extended durations of high heart rates. Mountaineer’s lifeline uses photoplethysmography to measure the users heart rate along with an altimeter to track the users altitude. The data from these sensors is used to alert the user when they are in danger. This simplistic set of sensors results in the maximum battery life at a minimum cost while retaining the desired core functionality of the device.

Team 208: Haptic Partner Bracelets
Students: Connor Holley, Garrett Kolowitz, Preston Miller, Zhanyi Wang

The Haptic Partner Bracelet project poses a solution to the lack of physical touch often experienced by people in long distance relationships. The pair of bracelets will be able to sense an analog force input from the user, transmit that input via the user’s cellphone and simulate the force on the partner’s corresponding bracelet using a vibration response. The vibration force felt by the receiving user will be proportional to the force exerted by the sending user. Although the target market is for individuals in long distance relationships, the product would likely be well-received by any couple, as feeling your partner’s presence when they are away may be a comforting sensation.

Team 209: At Home Plant Irrigation System
Students: William Davidian, Justin Hancock, Zane Reynolds, Caden Wyatt

With life as busy as it is, one task that often is forgotten is that of watering in-home plants. This project will design and build a mini irrigation system that will water the plant based on a timer. The user interface will include notifications sent to the users phone to let them know to add water to the fill system, as well as temperature messages alerting the user to extreme temperatures. The user interface will also include different settings that can be established via the phone to change the watering times and amounts. The product will remotely keep plant life alive and well.

Team 210: Robotic Mask
Students: Jeiny Ayala, Nicholas CollinsYarnall, Litzi Matancillas, Bryce Taylor

The pandemic that the world faces today has posed many problems for many people. The most obvious of these problems is the health and safety of ourselves and those around us. This device is a wearable face shield that will display the user’s body temperature. Using a button on the user’s smartphone device they will be able to turn on an LED display showing their body temperature and allowing others to view it without coming within six feet of that person.