Overview

Week 16 marked the final phase of the project lifecycle, shifting all efforts toward documentation, marketing, and presentation delivery. With field testing successfully completed, the team focused entirely on compiling our technical data and engineering achievements into our final deliverables—the pitch deck, project showcase poster, and an AI-generated demonstration video—in preparation for ElectroDay.

What We Did

• Final Pitch Deck Refinement: Polished our business and technical presentation by incorporating real-world sensor telemetry data, LoRa packet success rates, and photos from our field deployment.
• ElectroDay Poster Design: Created a high-resolution, professional showcase poster that visually maps out our 2-layer PCB layout, the unified system architecture, and our field-testing milestones.
• AI Video Production: Leveraged AI video generation and editing tools to produce a comprehensive project demonstration video, combining digital system renderings, conceptual animations, and simulated walkthroughs of the VertexShell system in action.

Challenges

• Condensing Complex Technical Data: Fitting sixteen weeks of intensive hardware routing, software debugging, and field testing onto a single, cohesive project poster proved difficult. We had to carefully balance visual block diagrams with high-level data summaries to maintain readability for a general audience.
• AI Video Prompting and Consistency: Ensuring the AI video generation tool maintained visual consistency for our custom PCB design and specific 3D enclosure shape across different scenes required highly precise asset inputs and prompt iterations.

Next Steps

• Complete a final walkthrough of the pitch presentation slides to ensure smooth transitions and timing.
• Print the finalized project poster and verify the AI video playback compatibility for the event venue.
• Set up the physical hardware display nodes and showcase the fully integrated VertexShell system at ElectroDay.