Week 9

Midterm Pitch Deck and Prototype Progress

This week, we delivered our Midterm Pitch Deck, a significant milestone in our project timeline. Originally scheduled for last week, the presentation was postponed due to the country-wide power outage. This pitch deck

Meanwhile, we have continued advancing the development of our prototype. We are now incorporating the feedback received from our professors and project coordinator, which has been invaluable in refining both the technical implementation and the conceptual foundation of our solution.

We started coding the ESP-32, trying to implement LoRa communication and GPS localization. However, we are having some issues with LoRa, that we are trying to solve. Regarding GPS localization, it is very accurate, but it takes some time and has some constraints (like being oudoors) to find the GPS satelites, which is something we don’t have much control about.

Aditionally, we started designing and developing our webapp, although it is still very elementary. We already knew somethings about web development, and we below are the tools we are using for this project:

    1. For frontend development, we are using Vite
    2. For backend development, we are developing an API using Flask 
    (reading and writing from the database) in Python.

Our objectives regarding the web application are:

    1. User Friendly Design
    2. User Vital Signs Info display, like heart rate, posture, temperature and velocity
    3. Map showing the location of the user
    4. Graph showing the evolution of the user's heart rate and temperature
    5. Message Log wherre the warnings and alarms will appear
    6. Possibility to add new users and delete users.