Meeting minutes November 2013

28/11/2013

Attendees: AC, HN, BT, JS, KA

Hardware update:

• Hardware list on GitHub (here)
• Use cases on GitHub wiki (here)
• Attempt at using HTTP PUT/HTTP POST and OGC IoT Sample Service on GitHub (doesn't work yet)

Software update:

• Use cases on GitHub wiki (here)
• Class diagram
• Working on implementing something which updates periodically (e.g. reading different colours and displaying on screen)

Tech deliverables report:

• Persons (mainly) responsible: JS, BT, HN
• On Google docs (check your emails)
• Schedule --> Gantt chart will be redone
• Discuss design aspect, e.g. design choices

Tech deliverables presentation:

• Persons (mainly) responsible: KA, AC
• Marked on: presenting skills, timing, visual aids and content
• Rough outline: what our project is about, requirements of our project, what IoT is, design process, hardware deliverables, scheduling, website demo

21/11/2013

Attendees: SL, AC, HN, BT, KA, JS

Update

• Lit review is finished
• Decided on RPi
• Self-facing shelves, e.g. pharmacy, cosmetics...
• People tracking - can use a Markov chain

Discussion (sort of disorganized so I hope you all can follow)

• iBeacon - used at Macy's
• can use a presence sensor (e.g. washrooms...)
• Database access -- check out the OGC IoT GitHub
• See IoT RESTful API Interactive SDK here
• Putting sensors, e.g. (1) set up the sensor yourself or (2) sensor registers itself
• Currently server restarts every 10 minutes (doesn't store data...)

Things we can do

• More detailed design (architecture, 'boxes' with input and output)
• For libraries, want class diagrams (modules, how they interact. Can use a UML diagram.)
• Define use cases -- search "use case templates"
• Examples of use cases... "buying goods" or "register sensor"
• Define input/output! Then can write test code

More miscellaneous discussion

• Website - use jQuery
• Front end - Bootstrap
• Go to Code School!
• Check out D3
• for Javascript, use Chrome as your development environment
• identify risks early - know how much time you have, so that you can have some buffer time
• have a Javascript library already - go check this out

For tech deliverables

• Can create simulated data on the RPi, sending it to the server (e.g. once every minute, one of four sensors turns on) and rendered with website
• Use jsfiddle to show off code

ACTION ITEMS

• code school
• get familiar with OGC, in particular how to get data onto DB
• make list of needed hardware (sensors, e.g. presence sensor... preferably cheap stuff!)