S18: Rahee
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Rahee
Abstract
Bikes are being widely adopted as a either a leisure sport or as a mode of transportation. In 2015, in USA alone 14.5 million bikes were sold. The world is following as well. Even with such a high number of users, there has been a dearth of smart accessories for bikes to enhance the experience of owning them. Moreover, it will not break news if anyone reports a bike theft. The adoption of bikes as a mode of transportation is on a constant rise, but no single accessory addresses these issues. To make a bike smarter and to address the issues which have so far been omnipresent in the bike industry, we propose Rahee- a solution towards making bike riding safe and bikes secure. The smartness of this device lies in its ability to connect to your phone via Bluetooth. This battery-operated device can be mounted on the handlebar of any bike. It will be capable of doing five different things that will help make the bike smart – navigation, smart headlight, display notifications about incoming calls and texts, an anti-theft alarm and a fitness tracker. The most important feature of this device is the navigation and its anti-theft capability(which actually works). It will also connect with the GPS or Google Maps on the smartphone and will receive and indicate information about how we need to reach a destination point.
Objectives & Introduction
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Team Members & Responsibilities
- Tanmay Shinde
- Automatic Headlamp Driver
- Ankith Shetty
- LED Indicator Display Driver
- Siddharth Chawla
- Android App
- PCB Designing
- Akshay Ghodke
- Driver and circuit for Speaker
- Anti theft feature
- Ashish Lele
- BLE Communication Bridge
- Product enclosure design
Schedule
| Week# | Date | Task | Description | Challenges | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4/3/18 | Project Discussion- | Involved detailed discussion of the project. Tasks were identified, allocation was decided according to the difficulty of the task.
Components choice was defined. The key parameters in the decision were power consumption, lumens(in case of LEDs) and form factor. |
NA | Completed | |
| 2 | 4/10/18 | Component List/ Ordering | Vendors were selected based on the quality of documentation and support available. | NA | Completed | |
| 3 | 4/17/18 | Basic Android App | To prepare a basic layout of the app, which describes how the data will flow among different activities and also what data will be communicated to the MCU. This helped in narrowing down the scope of development and enabled the respective developers with better understanding of the design. | NA | Completed | |
| 4 | 4/24/18 | Embedding Navigation in LED Matrix | The heart of the accessory lies in its navigation and driving the LED using this data. The Led Matrix employs the use of PWM in order to drive various segments of it. e.g. a right turn in the app will illuminate the right half of the matrix. | PWM posed a serious challenge when driving multiple pixels at once. This led to change our initial design philosophy from PWM to GPIO. | Completed | |
| 5 | 4/24/18 | Developing Anti-theft device | The Anti-theft device feature makes use of the accelerometer built-in the SJOne board. It also employs the use of a mp3 decoder and a speaker. | Calibrating the accelerometer and synhronizing the different tasks(Playing Sound) which it will trigger, yielded a small challenge. | Completed | |
| 6 | 05/10/18 | Automating the Headlamp | The Headlamp uses the Light sensor which is placed in the enclosure. It will illuminate based on the lighting conditions of the environment and will have a blinking feature. | The current dropper by a factor of 30 when PWM port was driving the headlamp. | Completed | |
| 5 | 5/1/18 | Finalize PCB Design | Finalizing among various designs and choosing the optimum form factor was a challenge. | Design completed
Using PWM, current dropped by a factor of 30 |
Completed | |
| 6 | 5/8/18 | Integration
Product Enclosure Designing |
Started | In Progress | ||
| 7 | 5/15/18 | Testing | TBA |
Parts List & Cost
| ProductID | Product | Vendor | Quantity | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SJONE | LPC 1758 | PreetPal Kang | 3 | $240.00 |
| 07040-PW750-N | Luxeon White Rubel LEDs | LED Supply | 2 | $7.98 |
| 10048 | Carclo Lens- Plain Tight Spot LED Optic | LED Supply | 2 | $3.18 |
| B0130LMJ4K | Generic MP3 Decoder | Amazon | 1 | $8.00 |
| 2748 | Analog Light Sensor Breakout | Adafruit | 2 | $2.50 |
| 2862 | NeoPixel Ring - 24 x 5050 RGBW LEDs | Adafruit | 1 | $20.50 |
| 10732 | Carclo Lens Holder | LED SUPPLY | 5 | $0.23 |
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Hardware Interface
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