Week 5

Materials List Elaboration and ATHENS

This week, our whole team participated in the ATHENS programme. However, we started to elaborate the materials list for our project and mainly discussed the hardware that will be used and how the communication will function.

Our scientific advisor arranged a contact from a company that is specialized in communication via satelite, which we are taking as an option for our project. Additionaly, we are also considering allying communication via LoRa, although it has some more constraints.

The final materials list is cited below.

Main materials List:

    1. 2 ESP32 T-Beam, with built-in GPS, LoRa and BLE
    2. Sports Chest Band, between Garmin HRM Dual and Polar T31
    3. Gyroscope and accelerometer sensor, IMU9D0F, for user posture analysis
    4. Two 3.7V batteries for the controllers
    5. 1 big LoRa Antenna for the data receiver
    6. 1 flat LoRa Antenna for the personal module, so that it is very compact

Materials options for communicating with the database:

    1. Communication device via satelite, depending on the professor's feedback
    2. Communication via Wi-Fi: simpler, but the receiver need to have Wi-Fi connection