221CR - Group Project

Our project was to come up with a fire escape solution for a building in the university. It had to make use of technology and be implementable in the building. At first our group struggled with ideas so in order to get things going Vijay suggested that we write any ideas that we can think of down on paper and not dismiss any, however far-fetched they sound.

I then went and did some research on Google and that was where I first found the idea for broadband sound. I noted this down and the link to the site, because I thought it might come in handy (as it did in the end). Our list was quite strange at first, with things like Holograms and Robots on it.

We then decided to arrange meetings in the library whiteboard rooms that you have to book out, so we could get our ideas together and decide on a system. This took longer than expected because we couldn't decide how it would fit altogether. We carried on with these meetings every week, kept minutes of them and carried on our research. Vijay then allocated tasks for all of us and the project began to take shape. I found that LED strip lights were the best to use along with the directional sound, as they are simple to fit in buildings and are quite bright. Vijay began to mock up the poster and Ben began to make a prototype system. We decided halfway through that we weren't happy with the poster design and let Ben take control of it. James Howe decided to take control of the website, Steven did the work for the monitoring software and Vijay focused on the sound/sensors aspect.

I carried on with the lights work, finding out the specifications and how exactly they would fit in with the rest of the system. I wasn't sure how the system would all fit together but somehow it did as the work was nearing completion. We then printed out the poster and got our materials ready for poster show day. I created some informative mini-posters that showed all the information of the lights and these went around the outside of the main poster. Vijay did the same for sound and the website, broadband sound video and system prototype were displayed on laptops on the desk. I think that the poster show went well but Pete Every had some probing questions about the directional sound which we answered as best as we could. We got a decent mark in the end that everyone was happy with.

I am pleased with the hard work and contributions made by everyone in the group to make a successful project solution.

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