emm035 Projects, Projects 2017

Solar Energy Cost Estimator

Project Description

Develop online tool to collect residential energy usage and home information using the Green Button API. Then using both historical energy consumption data and weather data, simulate how various solar energy systems would have performed over the last year. Put all of this into a good looking and easy to use web application to advise homeowners how much solar energy equipment they should install/purchase to meet their goals.

Goals

Authorize with utility using GreenButton interface and OAuth to download energy consumption data. Find and download relevant data from government (NWS) weather archives. Simulate solar energy collection using various parameters and compare to current daily consumption.

Group Summary

Create a platform for home owners that uses current energy costs and local data to estimate energy savings should they invest in solar energy equipment.

Identified Pains

It’s difficult to estimate the savings that come from investing in solar/renewable energy equipment.

Accessing energy data created by “Green Button” enabled products and integrating with local weather data.

Proposed Problem Description

Create a simpler way to estimate consumers cost savings by investing in renewable energy.

Proposed Goals

Create a web application that will allow people to access their Green Button data through a user-friendly interface and aid them in estimating their cost savings if they invest in renewable energy.

Possible Solution

https://www.google.com/get/sunroof#p=0

 

Brainstorming

Our takeaways from brainstorming were possibly marketing towards power companies or neighborhood boards rather than individuals.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Qu2ZhHeuGOCV6srcJPBy0ehYGy29Kdn-VRHO44NMJ9M/edit?usp=sharing

Contributors

Eric Marshall

Jason Corriveau

Ben Matase

Anushikha Sharma

Jingya Wu

BRAINSTORMING BY

Dunni Adenuga

Lucas Nicolois

Matthew Rogge

Sienna Mosher

Jordan Voves

cnw004 Projects, Projects 2017

Peanut Pal

Project Description

Oral Immunotherapy (OIT) is an emerging strategy for tackling severe food allergies, and has received attention for its success with small children who suffer from severe reactions to peanuts. However, it takes a lot of patience and documentation.

Patients must take a daily dose of peanut solution, which slowly increases over the course of the year. They need to document the time, and refrain from exercising for more than 2 hours afterwards.

I’d like to build a voice app (Alexa) that 1. reminds children to take their daily dose, 2. documents the time of dose everyday, 3. Includes a timer that children can query about how long they need to refrain from exercising, and 4. encourages children to keep up their ‘work’.

Goals

– automatically provide documentation for parents (which they can pass on to an allergist)
– encourage children to keep up their doses every day.

Constraints

Children who can’t read should be able to seamlessly interact with it.

Impact

OIT is an emerging strategy that is rapidly gaining in popularity. A specialized app would be great.

Resources

Depending on the direction it went, we might need to purchase something like an Echo Dot.

Group Summary

Essentially the customer would like us to make an application that reminds children to take a dose of medicine in order to help cure their peanut (or other) allergies. It should also document dosage and time dose was taken as well as any other metrics that might be considered useful. The customer would like this to be compatible with Amazon’s Alexa – specifically using it as a way to remind the child when to dose and how much to dose.  The customer would like this app to be usable for a child that cannot read.

Identified Pains

Making this app accessible for those who cannot read.
Creating physician quality documentation could be difficult – we would need to consult with a doctor to see what their forms generally look like.

Any complications in the application could easily lead to patient DEATH.

Proposed Problem Description

Create a voice capable application to aid parents in properly dosing and recording their child’s treatment plan. This should create comprehensive, physician grade documentation.

Proposed Goals

Create a product capable of being interacted with by voice and capable of producing physician grade documentation. Said solution should also remind patients when to dose and how much to dose.

Contributors

Cole, Lucas, Jordan, Dunni

Brainstorm/Summary

https://docs.google.com/a/bucknell.edu/spreadsheets/d/1z4Q4wV1SNEFxv3j8wlIvvcQYAuCGQOzfH0KwSxtZvAY/edit?usp=sharing

  • Notify multiple people, like a trusted contact list when someone doesn’t mark that they took their medication
    • Could be an escalation list like Mom -> Dad -> Doctor -> Ambulance
  • Body sensors that can detect severe allergic reactions. This can then notify emergency services/contacts. these sensors would also be able to detect activity after treatment to allow patients to follow treatment plan
  • Something that can adjust treatment as you go. Integration with Google/Apple/Whatever calendar

Proposal

Levi Adair

Bobby Cao

Jordan Faith

jrf034 Projects, Projects 2017

Excurvant UX/UI

Project Description

At Excurvant, our team is always trying to create a better user experience and interface for our users. Currently, we’re trying to develop the best online social travel community, which combines the three most vital components of the industry: discovery, booking, and sharing. Thus, we’re in need of a motivated and talented team looking to utilize their engineering & design skills to help improve the overall UX/UI for Excurvant’s sharing methods. This includes (not limited to…) better uploading experience, viewing methods, and customization options to make the platform more personalized for travelers all around the world. Please contact us with any further questions regarding the project description.

Goals

Provide a seamless, simplistic, and fun UX/UI for travelers all around the world to discover, book, and share their journeys.

Constraints

The only constraint involved with this project is the programming framework that Excurvant is built off, which is the Node.js framework.

 

Impact

 

This project has the potential to be monumental in the travel industry. Excurvant is trying to become the central router of all travel activity throughout the world. We believe the travel industry is incredibly fragmented and we want to centralize all activity. Students who are involved in this project have the chance to work on an Internet company that can revolutionize the travel industry.

 

Resources

 

There are no specific resources the team is expected to need in order to complete the project. The developed solutions will be built off separate modules.

 

Group Summary

Excurvant is looking to streamline their current methods for a better user experience. To get the better user experience there needs to be more intuitive user interface, and the inclusion of customization options. To get a full working website where users can book and share, there needs to be back-end development which includes a full stack and database to hold all accounts and information. Implementing a seamless UX/UI requires a lot of visual input from the Excurvant team.

 

Identified Pains

Poorly organized website leads to user frustration.

Site is not streamlined for easy use.

Features are not fully implemented

 

Proposed Problem Description

The UI is not intuitive, slow, promotes a very frustrating experience. Not finished, only the landing page exists. 

Proposed Goals

  • Make the website more streamline via more intuitive UX/UI
  • Full stack development (backend, database, etc…)
  • Implementing features such as customization, better uploading experience, view methods and etc

 

Contributors

Bobby Cao

Jordan Faith

Levi Adair

Tom Ficcadenti

Allan La

Andrew Capuano

Daniel Vasquez

Brooke Bullek

 

Brainstorming Thinking

https://docs.google.com/a/bucknell.edu/spreadsheets/d/1aFmO9MmTeYgyod1UXawg3fGa3rzUjf97XqhxVITQ_4M/edit?usp=sharing

 

Pre-Proposals

 

Jason Corriveau

Jingya Wu

Eric Marshall

Sienna Mosher

Anushikha Sharma

Group Pre-Proposals

Eric, Cole, Stefano, Andrew