Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Reunion Attendance Table



Leyenda:

X = Attended Reunion

Reunion (Proposal)- February 25

The team met to work with the new feedback of the proposal. We fixed all of the changes according to what Prof. Manuel Rodriguez said.

Attendance: Juan, Jose, Josue
Absent: Jecximara

Reunion with Prof. Manuel - February 25

Met with Professor Manuel Rodriguez to discuss Proposal changes that needed to be done. Aside from the ones already changed we needed to work with the following parts of the proposal:

-Assesments
-SMART Objectives
-Economic Analizis
-How will we manage legal aspects
-Training Needs
-Milestones

Attendance: Juan, Jose, Josue
Absent: Jecximara

Monday, February 23, 2009

Reunion - February 23

Met with Fernando to discuss concerns about hardware and proposal remake. Changes must be made in a new Proposal and not on different documents. Also talked with Manuel about how he wanted the proposal to be. Must make new one with changes integrated.

Attendance: Juan, Jecximara, Josue
Absent: Jose

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Reunion - February 22

Got together to do the following documents asked for our proposal.

1) Justificacion de la complejidad del software en el proyecto. (JUAN)

2) Descripcion detallada del software, incluyendo arquitectura del sistema y de "layer diagram" donde ilustre cada modulo. (JOSUE)

3) Interfase grafica del LCD y cuales son las operaciones que puede hacer el usuario. Ahora mismo lo que el dispositivo hace es simplemente recibir informacion del servidor. (JECXIMARA)

4) Revisar si Zigbee es la tecnologia adecuada (por que no WiFi). (JECXIMARA)

5) Un nuevo ER Diagram del sistema ya que el actual es trivial. Los cuartos ("rooms") deben ser una entidad y no un atributo de eventos.(JOSE)

6) Un nuevo work break down structure donde indentifique las tareas decada uno. (JOSUE)

7) Plan para probar el software. (JUAN)

8) Explicacion de quien es el cliente y cual es el problema que se resuelve. (JOSE)



Attendance: Jose, Juan, Jecximara, Josue

Friday, February 20, 2009

Reunion - February 20

Discussed hardware changes that we have to do, and different options.

Discussed main application and got feedback from team member about changes that could be done.
Some where:
-The abbility to remove halls,
-Administrator should be able to add or edit information about the convention center
-Add hall capacity
-Edit "About" information
-Configure characters quantity with the ones on the database.

Discussed the webpage domain that we will use, price and time that we will be renting it.

Discussed database fields that should be added.

Met with Arnaldo gave us some hardware components including an LCD, Keyboard, USB Cable, Power supply, and a box from another team from last year.

Attendance: Jose, Juan, Josue
Absent: Jecximara

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Reunion - February 17

Met to discuss hardware issues with professor. Professor was not able to meet with us at that time.


Attendance: Jecximara, Juan, Jose, Josue

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Reunion - February 10 Dices

Met with Dices to discuss hardware options for our project. He recommended we use Xbee Pro with an aditional antenna thats only $8.00, since it will have more range. He also recomended we use Micro controller MSP430F149.

Attendance: Jose, Jecximara, Juan, Josue

Monday, February 9, 2009

Reunion Attendance Table



Leyenda:


X = Attended Reunion

Reunion - February 9

Met with the team to discuss wireless technology. We agreed to use Zigbee. We discussed the option of giving an unique id with the micro/lcd and also with the rooms in case the person decides to move the lcd into another room.

Met with Naida to discuss hardware design and Gant Chart. We have to change some things about the gant chart. We have to talk to Dices to clear doubts about Zigbee and about the LCD. We also have to be more specific about the connection of the micro controller with the LCD. We have to check more about Softwares Architectures.

Attendance: Josue, Jose, Juan, Jecximara

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Reunion - February 8

Got together to fix and discuss the proposal, presentation, and Gant Chart. Decided to use ZigBee as the wireless technology to communicate with the microprocessor. Tomorrow all of our part for the presentation should be completed and united. Scheduled reunion for Tuesday at 6pm to practice the presentation.

Attendance: Juan, Jecximara, Jose, Josue

Friday, February 6, 2009

Reunion con Fernando

Abstracts- Mencionar que son numerosas salas de cantidad variable y/o modular
Manejo simultaneo de eventos
Anadir lo de los updates de la indformacion si ocurren cambios en actividad

Mercado Potencial- Anadir Hoteles con centro de Convenciones
Economic Aspects- Mencionar costo total del proyecto
Incluir tiempo de realizacion-
La duracion del proyecto sra de tantos meses y se espera se termine para tal fecha

Anadir Acceso a la informacion via Webpage- mostrar salas, info, horas, cambio, mapa de salas etc.

WiFi ($100)- mas flexible

Considerar consumo de energia- baterias, energia electrica

ZigBee ($40-$50) - barato facil de programar

Es mas comercial si se hace de las dos formas, cableado e inalambrico

- CONTACTOS
KeiJilu
Couvertier

En informe final mecionar los dos tipos de comunicacion aunque solo logremos una.

Aclara que lo que proponemos es un prototipo de laboratorio o prueba de concepto que demuestra la funcionalidad del sistema

Posibilidad de hacer algo mas interactivo LCD mas keyboard para permitir accesar otra informacion


Control de cambios
Especificacion original
Spec. Modificada
Justificacion
Impacto o efecto en el proyecto, tiempo, costo etc...

Micro
TI- mas instrumentacion en el colegio


Asistencia: Jose, Juan, Jecximara, Josue

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Client Meeting Tomorrow

Tomorrow our team will meet with our client Fernando to discuss what we have of the proposal and receive his feedback then work on whatever needs working.

Reunion - February 5

Met with the team to put together Jecximaras parts in the proposal. Jexcimara sent some of her tasks by email. Her tasks that aren't ready yet are the Hardware parts of the proposal.

Attendance: Juan, Jose, Josue
Absent: Jecximara

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Reunion With Fernando

Met with Fernando at 11:30 am to discuss if there were gonna be a problem with the similarities with our project and another other project and also to discuss if he could be our client. He agreed to be our client for this project.

Reunion with Dani - February 4

Meeting with Dani at 4:30 pm to discuss how our project would be more marketable and what tactics we could use to sell our product better.



Attendance: Jose, Juan, Josue
Absent: Jexcimara

Group Reunion - February 4

Today we got together at 3:00pm to unite all of the different parts of the proposal that each member was assigned. Jose, Juan, and Josue delivered their tasks. We are still waiting for Jecximara's tasks, she was not able to come to the reunion. Her tasks are supposed to be ready at the latest tonight.

Attendance: Jose, Juan, Josue
Absent: Jexcimara

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Logos

Logos were made this week for our team and also for our project.

J4 Innovation Logo




Information System for Convention Center Logo




Creator: Juan M. Díaz
Software Used: Photoshop Elements 6, Maya PLE