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25 Soldier Status Monitoring Project
 Sanghee Seo
Santhosh Vairavan
Yash Kulkarni
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We are going to build a medial device to monitor the vital signs of soldiers out in the field. We will build a harness that will monitor the vitals and wirelessly transmit the data to a range of 100m to a base station. The transmitted data will be stored in this centralized location for further analysis. We will measure heart rate, body temeperature, pulse oximetry and maybe blood pressure analysis. Our goal is to ensure that the device operates for 24 to 36 hours. We also plan to incorporate a display (maybe TI watch, or LCD, or simple LED lighting) for the soldier to monitor his own health. We also want to minimize weight of our sensors and components including the battery because the soldier already carries quite a bit of weight already.

Wireless IntraNetwork

Daniel Gardner, Jeeth Suresh

Wireless IntraNetwork

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There is a drastic lack of networking infrastructure in unstable or remote areas, where businesses don’t think they can reliably recoup the large initial cost of construction. Our goal is to bring the internet to these areas. We will use a network of extremely affordable (<$20, made possible by IoT technology) solar-powered nodes that communicate via Wi-Fi with one another and personal devices, donated through organizations such as OLPC, creating an intranet. Each node covers an area approximately 600-800ft in every direction with 4MB/s access and 16GB of cached data, saving valuable bandwidth. Internal communication applications will be provided, minimizing expensive and slow global internet connections. Several solutions exist, but all have failed due to costs of over $200/node or the lack of networking capability.

To connect to the internet at large, a more powerful “server” may be added. This server hooks into the network like other nodes, but contains a cellular connection to connect to the global internet. Any device on the network will be able to access the web via the server’s connection, effectively spreading the cost of a single cellular data plan (which is too expensive for individuals in rural areas). The server also contains a continually-updated several-terabyte cache of educational data and programs, such as Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg. This data gives students and educators high-speed access to resources. Working in harmony, these two components foster economic growth and education, while significantly reducing the costs of adding future infrastructure.