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45 Smart Portable Key
 Aashay Shah
Akshay Chanana
 Igor Fedorov design_document0.pdf
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This project aims to build a smart secure portable electronic key. This key will be activated after verification from a finger print reader. After it goes through the fingerprint reader and gets activated, we will send an encrypted verification to the panel with switches for different locks to unlock. By pressing one of these switches, we will be able to then transmit a signal (via RF/Bluetooth) to the particular lock we require to open. This signal will have an encryption key that will prevent physical hacking as the receiver requires this key to get activated.
After successful verification of this key the respective lock will be able to click open. The locks that we will be using will have electric and mechanical locking components. This will be a really safe (and portable at the same time) option as there is no easy way to tamper with this kind of lock. If some unauthorized person tries to access the reader to open the lock, it will not send a signal. Thus if someone tries to put a high signal directly, the receiver will not get activated as the encryption key would not have been verified yet.
It will be our aim to make it as compact and marketable by the end of the project.

S.I.P. (Smart Irrigation Project)

Jackson Lenz, James McMahon

S.I.P. (Smart Irrigation Project)

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Jackson Lenz

James McMahon

Our project is to be a reliable, robust, and intelligent irrigation controller for use in areas where reliable weather prediction, water supply, and power supply are not found.

Upon completion of the project, our device will be able to determine the moisture level of the soil, the water level in a water tank, and the temperature, humidity, insolation, and barometric pressure of the environment. It will perform some processing on the observed environmental factors to determine if rain can be expected soon, Comparing this knowledge to the dampness of the soil and the amount of water in reserves will either trigger a command to begin irrigation or maintain a command to not irrigate the fields. This device will allow farmers to make much more efficient use of precious water and also avoid dehydrating crops to death.

In developing nations, power is also of concern because it is not as readily available as power here in the United States. For that reason, our device will incorporate several amp-hours of energy storage in the form of rechargeable, maintenance-free, lead acid batteries. These batteries will charge while power is available from the grid and discharge when power is no longer available. This will allow for uninterrupted control of irrigation. When power is available from the grid, our device will be powered by the grid. At other times, the batteries will supply the required power.

The project is titled S.I.P. because it will reduce water wasted and will be very power efficient (by extremely conservative estimates, able to run for 70 hours without input from the grid), thus sipping on both power and water.

We welcome all questions and comments regarding our project in its current form.

Thank you all very much for you time and consideration!