Sailing pirates

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Team page for Deploying IT Infrastructure Solutions.

Team Members

  • Kristjan Tõnismäe, The Estonian Information Technology College
  • Konstantinos Verigos, Technological Educational Institute of Crete
  • Stefanos Athanasiadis, Technological Educational Institute of Crete
  • Tommi Potapoff, Vaasa University of Applied Sciences
  • Jesse Koski, Vaasa University of Applied Sciences
  • Mikko Heikkuri, Vaasa University of Applied Sciences

Goal

  • Work out good working prototype or final product.
  • Build up product with good graphical user interface.
  • Create embedded system with two parts:
    1. Consumer android application for monitoring and visualizing marine data.
    2. Using Marine microcontroller and Marine sensor system.
  • Embedded system can save history data and hold it.
  • This embedded system can show all information what sensors can give.
  • It have to be simple and easy to use.
  • It has physical buttons what you can use to start and stop saving data, to turn device on and off.

Activity

Activity chart

Monday - 25.03.13

Things what we did that day:

  • Listening some lectures.
  • Programming sumorobots and took a part from the sumorobots contest.
  • Divided into groups and we chose our project.

Tuesday - 26.03.13

Things what we did that day:

  • Made some research for hardware, software and tried to got a cleaner view of our project.
  • We met sailing boat in our school, got inspiration, made some brainstorming, collecting ideas.

Problems what we faced:

  • We tried to find those problems what we will starting to face.

Things what we plan to do:

  • Collect more information about our project.
  • Ask some questions, what we have made for clients.

Wednesday - 27.03.13

Things what we did that day:

  • We met our mentor Andres Käver and other project owner Linnar Viik, we cleared up our project.
  • Everybody got their part what to do:
    Tommi and Mikko - working with hardware development
    Konstantinos - working with software and android development
    Kristjan - working with Wiki page and Java software development
    Jesse - working with user interface development

Problems what we faced:

  • What kind of devices can connect to system?
    Answer to question
    All the devices what sailing boat using.
    There are GPS Antenna, Compass Transducer, Triducer, Wind Transmitter, Analog Display,
    Dual Digital Display and through NMEA there will be connected tablet.

Questions and answers from client:

Things what we plan to do:

  • First thing

Thursday - 28.03.13

Things what we did that day:

  • Software (Kostas and Jesse)
      Setup development tools for android, maps, arduino-android
      Build testing applications for maps and arduino-android
      Ui prototyping and mochup/sketch
  • Arduino (Stefanos and Kristjan)
      Arduino development tools research
      Arduino development tools setup
      Arduino hardware testing
      Arduino software testing
  • Hardware (Tommi and Mikko)
      Research and order missing parts
      Prototyping circuits
      Connect maggellan gps to nmea
  • Teamwork
      Update wiki and make activity chart

    Friday - 29.03.13

    Things what we did that day:

    • Built a level shifter.
    • Built hardware connections between sensors and level sifter.
    • Improved user interface by changing the size and colors of some parts (eg. buoy). Uploaded the image in the tablet and testing it outside in the environment.

    Problems what we faced:

    • In the software Arduino part a problem raised at the NMEA/TinyGPS library, because the library does not include ready functions for extracting wind information
      such as direction and speed. Due to that problem Arduino will not be responsible for analyzing and parsing the NMEA strings in C language, but the tablet will
      take this responsibility and this task will be completed using Java programming language.

    Things what we plan to do:

    • Fix our main problem to get information from arduino controller.

    Monday - 01.04.13

    Things what we did that day:

    • On the hardware section some faults were repaired. We changed the baud rate of the information extraction, and by that action the laptop device that was

    connected to the server was able to identify the NMEA protocol strings from the server. Also with an Oscilloscope we checked that the outcome signal of the system is correct.

    • A prototype program was created that a tablet controls the led of the arduino controller with a tap of a button.

    Problems what we faced:

    • Faults in hardware connections, faults with the level shifter.
    • Just problems with java developing, can't say in more details.

    Things what we plan to do:

    • Finalizing the hardware setup.
    • Continuing the development of android and arduino software.

    Tuesday - 02.04.13

    Things what we did that day:
    The hardware part is 100% cmpleted and fully functional.

    Problems what we faced:

    Things what we plan to do:

    Results

    Summary of what we did and solution what we developed

    Final documentation

    Analysis

    Solution

    IP Feed-back

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    Konstantinos feedback

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