ICOM 5047

Project: Smart Vertical Garden

Description:

Smart Vertical Garden promotes the idea of vertical gardening, to develop farms on the roofs or inside buildings in order to increase food production. It consists of a solar powered closed structure for growing crops and an Android based mobile application. The structure or vertical garden is monitored and controlled by an embedded system that communicates via Bluetooth with the mobile application. The mobile application will provide the user access to a database containing all relevant information on how to properly cultivate a wide variety of crops, ranging from ideal sowing conditions to pest control.

Project: DigiStaff

Description:

DigiStaff is a portable music notation device which will give musicians the ability to produce and write music. Instead of using pen and paper to write music, a graphical LCD screen will display the notes which can be added or changed using buttons. The system will also have a playback feature which will play the music composed on the device using the MIDI standard. Once done, the composed music can be saved onto an SD Card as both a MIDI and a MusicXML file for further editing on other music notation software.

Project: Fall Detection System

Description:

The Fall Detection System’s purpose is to accurately detect falls in a person and alert emergency contacts. Using pattern recognition methods, an embedded system will be in charge of detecting if a fall occurs. When an emergency is detected, data will be sent to a phone running Android OS through a Bluetooth module embedded in the portable device. The Android application will then be in charge of sending text messages to the emergency contacts. After this process has been completed, the Android application will send the needed emergency information to a web application which will provide authorized users the ability of generating several reports and revise a log of a patient’s falls.

Project: RideStrong

Description:

RideStrong is a professional cyclist remote monitoring system that will allow cyclist trainers and race staff personnel to have live vitals, speed and location of each cyclist during a mountain bike race. Its a suit comprised of a heart rate, breathing rate and temperature sensors all built into the suit, along with a GPS receiver located at the back of the suit, to allow precise location and speed of the cyclist at any time. All this information will be transmitted through a local mesh network built on the racetrack and available through a software application installed on a computer connected to the network. Furthermore, the application will store cyclists data to be used as needed.

Project: Transaction Tracker v2.0

Description:

Transaction Tracker v2.0 provides to the small businesses in Puerto Rico a tool that helps them track their daily sales integrating into the system an easy way of generating monthly reports that will help them send more precise data to Hacienda, Puerto Rico’s tax collection agency.

Project: EyeSpark

Description:

EyeSpark brings to users a new and innovative way of interacting with computers. It allows users to control their mouse and keyboard with only their eyes and head. EyeSpark consists of a head mounted device and an application running on the users computer. The head mounted device tracks eye and head movements and sends the information to the user's PC via USB. The EyeSpark application captures this information and uses it to create the mapping of eye and head gestures to mouse and keystrokes. Users can fully customize the mappings and tie them to specific applications, allowing EyeSpark to work with a variety of applications.