Week 1 of 2017

Hello my friends and welcome back to a New Year with new expectations about how the Clemson (Machinery) Access Tracking System (CATS) project will continue for the Spring of 2017 semester.

This year the creative inquiry team decided to take a new approach on how we wanted to separate the tasks for the project. We ended up creating three teams that consist of Hardware, Web Administration, and Software (Raspberry Pi Coding, SQL server components, and more…).

Over Christmas break of 2016, one of the members of the team decided to take a Raspberry Pi home to fix a problem or bug that the needed fixing. This one problem was having the Invalid PIN re-entered if the user had entered an incorrect PIN. Not only was this issue solved, but the member added a signal interrupt that lets the system lock the user out if they have not typed in something within a certain time or if the card is no longer being read, for now this timer is set at 7 seconds.

With that being said, there are a few goals that the three teams are going to tackle this semester.

Hardware

  • Redesign Housing
  • Solve Connectivity Issues
  • Improve User Interface and Feedback
  • Integrate Relay Into Design of PCB
  • Integrate Physical Safety Features such as Captive Ends for Power Supply

Software

  • Complete Unit Testing
  • Improve Quality of Code
  • Fix/Reduce Bugs Found
  • Implement the Software Development Life Cycle
    • This step will be put into effect when the team gets close to the finished product
  • Implement *Optional* Two-factor Authentication
  • Add Audio Effects

Web Administration

  • Home page with Administrator Login
  • Database Calling
  • Machine Control Panel
  • Data Metrics Panel

That is all for this week’s blog. Thank you for your time. Hope to see you all back soon.

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