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# Title Team Members TA Documents Sponsor
41 Boeing NFC Interdisciplinary Project Team 1
 Alper Olcay
Jinjoo Nam
Vigneshwar Karthikeyan
 Kevin Bassett design_document0.pdf
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proposal0.pdf
Our interdisciplinary project sponsored by Boeing will focus on utilizing Near Field Communication technology to benefit the company's part verification process as well as inventory tasks. NFC tags can contain readable/rewriteable data; we will place these tags on any high-valued parts that are worth the effective cost of tracking. The data in these tags will contain the origin of the part, whether or not the part was tested, which specific employee verified the part, etc. These tags will be the basis for a novel system that allows for easy readability of the entire history of a given part from any NFC device (Smartphones, tablets, etc).

That being said, our team will focus on the part verification application, which is to make sure that any high value parts are not tempered with and has only been accessed by the people who were supposed to access it. This could assure the safety and security of high value applications and potentially prevent any part failures or information theft.The technology behind these respective applications will be implemented as well as a business analysis of their financial viability.

RFI Detector

Jamie Brunskill, Tyler Shaw, Kyle Stevens

RFI Detector

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Problem Statement:

Radio frequency interference from cell phones disrupts measurements at the radio observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Many visitors do not comply when asked to turn their phones off or put them in airplane mode.

Description:

We are planning to design a handheld device that will be able to detect radio frequency interference from cell phones from approximately one meter away. This will allow someone to determine if a phone has been turned off or is in airplane mode.

The device will feature an RF front end consisting of antennas, filters, and matching networks. Multiple receiver chains may be used for different bands if necessary. They will feed into a detection circuit that will determine if the power within a given band is above a certain threshold. This information will be sent to a microcontroller that will provide visual/audible user feedback.

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