Conference Room Schedule Displays
1 Project Overview
Kelley Engineering Center currently has a number of conference rooms on each floor for use by students and staff for various purposes (ranging from group project sessions to faculty meetings). These rooms may be reserved online, but most often they are obtained in a drop-in manner. This can result in rooms being taken soon before they were scheduled to be used by another group. To prevent such overlaps from occurring, displays could be placed outside each room, telling prospective users its reservation schedule for the day, as well as the current status of the room, showing whether it is vacant or occupied.
The purpose of this project is to design and build a demo display and fabricate enough for each conference room in Kelley. This device should be a small, lightweight, low power display, with some built in manner of theft deterrent. It should also be able to wirelessly update itself from the online registration page, and show changes in semi real time. The daily room reservations should be visible and the device may also allow for on the spot reservations, though this is not a necessary feature. This product will work to reduce meeting distractions caused by unwanted visitors as well as eliminating the acute embarrassment caused by untimely room entry to an already full room.
Our group consists of three senior students in the College of Engineering, along with a graduate student mentor and a sponsor. The finished device will likely run off of an embedded Linux system to interface with the current MySQL database already used by the room reservation web page, and together we will work all three terms of the 2009-2010 school year with the goal of having a fully complete and working product by the end of winter term.
Design Requirements
1. Displays Meeting Information
2. Reliability
3. Database Access
4. Theft Prevention
5. Ease of Use
6. Low Power
7. Low Cost
8. RFID Reservation
2 Needs Identification and Background Research
3 System Requirements and Desired Features
4 Design Solutions
5 Top Level Block Design
5.1 Power Supply
5.2 Enclosure
5.3 Microcontroller
5.4 Wireless Module
5.5 LCD Module
5.6 LED Indicator
5.7 RFID Scanner (Outdated)
5.8 Buttons
5.9 RS232 to TTL Converter (Outdated)
5.10 High Level Code
5.11 Wireless Code
5.12 PHP Server Code
5.13 Printed Circuit Board
6 Testing
7 Project Timeline
8 Budget
9 Expo Materials
Group Collaborators
Student - Brandon Gibbs Email
Student - Kelsey Dobner Email
Student - Jordan Edgar Email
Mentor - Ashley Mason
Sponsor - Donald Heer
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