Assignment_2 _Project_Plan_and_Implementation
docx
School
San Jose State University *
*We aren’t endorsed by this school
Course
260
Subject
Industrial Engineering
Date
Apr 3, 2024
Type
docx
Pages
4
Uploaded by AgentBarracuda3980
FIREFIGHTER DASHBOARD APPLICATION
Team Members:
1.
Aakash Chitroda: 013755040
2.
Halak Vyas: 012629812
3.
Prashant Gandhi: 013712361
4.
Vatsal Makani: 013731614
●
The Societal Need and the Customer
The proposed product - Firefighter dashboard shall be used for the firefighter’s safety and
precautions against dangerous hazards. The present invention relates to sensor data
monitoring which provides an automated alarm system for monitoring multiple
parameters during firefighting activities and providing appropriate instructions or
indications to a firefighter to inform him of a dangerous situation. The aim of this project
is to get all the telemetry data of the firefighter team members and send it to the team lead
either using serial communication/network protocol. The product being developed for the
firefighters and their team members, keeping their requirements in mind the major market
segment of the product aims to be Fire Department, but it can be extended to various
communities, military and sport adventurous groups, by adding or subtracting some
sensor controllers as per their requirements. In the current scenario, firefighters are not
embedded with any sensor device and most of the time, firefighters must restore to
manual methods of raising the alarm when they are exposed to dangerous environmental
situations. These firefighters are covered with thick insulating uniforms which gives them
little to no indication about the temperatures rising above the dangerous limits, the heat
may get accumulated in these uniforms without any warning to the firefighters, adding
further risk to their lives. Hence it becomes difficult to keep track of all the firefighters by
the team lead or the firefighter marshal, so with the help of this product, the team lead, or
the firefighter marshal shall be able to monitor the firefighter’s health, position and their
surrounding areas. As this product is initially targeted for local firefighter department, so
after completion of the product, this prototype will be experimented to monitor the
product’s efficiency, we can expand the domain to medical applications where blood
pressure sensor, sensor to measure glucose, etc can be integrated and monitored by the
doctors.
●
Existing competitive technologies
The existing competitive technology allows firefighters to carry the wearable device and
an additional walkie-talkie. Sometimes carrying this additional device may seem difficult
to manage during the extreme fire situations. To avoid this shortcoming, our proposed
product shall implement a built-in push-to-talk feature, which will prevent the firefighters
to carry an additional device. This feature will help firefighters to talk to each other and
firefighter marshal at ease. Another technological hurdle that these current states of the
art products have includes lack of providing the position of the firefighters. Our proposed
product will help the firefighter marshal to monitor the GPS coordinates of the team and
accordingly provide the instructions to those who are stuck in dangerous surroundings
using push-to-talk service. The GPS coordinates can also be monitored over dashboard in
real time by the marshal, who guides other firefighters about the whereabouts of each
other. In the worst-case scenario, if the firefighter stops responding or acknowledging,
the firefighter marshal can summon a rescue team for the firefighter in danger based on
their GPS coordinates in real time scenario. Our proposed product involved interfacing
STM32 board with Raspberry Pi 3 B+, implementing a push-to-talk service using
Raspberry Pi and designing interactive GUI considering QT framework as a platform.
Due to such a low scale implementation, our total product cost shall be less than the
existing market products. In case of any pitfall in the device, the faulty controllers and
sensor modules are easily replaceable aiding low and easy product maintenance. After
successful completion of this product, the firefighting team lead shall monitor the
telemetry data and accordingly provide instructions to its team members using push-to-
talk service preventing any life casualty/injury.
●
Value proposition
“Our product promises to deliver safety to our safety providers!!”
The product provides the following key differentiative features and benefits to the
potential customer:
●
Firefighter’s location and health monitoring
●
Push-to-talk service in extreme situations
●
Easy maintenance and low cost
●
Interactive Dashboard
●
Innovation
The system block diagram of the product is shown below:
Our product shall consist of the air quality sensor to measure the gas concentration around the firefighter, where STM32 controller shall take the concentration value and warn about the hazards to the firefighter marshal, if the data exceeds certain limits. Temperature and ECG values are obtained from particle sensor to measure temperature
Your preview ends here
Eager to read complete document? Join bartleby learn and gain access to the full version
- Access to all documents
- Unlimited textbook solutions
- 24/7 expert homework help
around firefighter and heartbeat of the firefighter. The controller shall notify the firefighter marshal about the temperature exceeding above the dangerous limits. These data will be monitored by the marshal with the help of QT application, which gets the data over a network. The push-to-talk service shall be implemented directly using a microphone and a speaker. In summary, our product highlights 2 new transformative and original feature compared to current state of the art products available in the market:
1.
Our product incorporated a push-to-talk feature which helps firefighters communicate
with each other at ease. This push-to-talk feature works on pressing a switch which could prove better than handling an additional device such as walkie talkie.
2.
GPS Positioning and real-time tracking on the dashboard helps marshal to get the position of the other firefighters, who can provide appropriate instructions, thus ensuring firefighter’s safety.