Final Project

Objective

Your final project should aim to solve a problem within the area of a ‘smart home’. Within smart homes, you may select any category including, but not limited to, healthy living, aged care, caring for pets, entertainment, energy use and gardening.

Your project should do the following:

- Use sensors to collect some data as relevant to the problem.

- Using collected data, to carry out an analysis.

- Visualise the collected data.

- Write a report on your idea, data collection and analysis and provide recommendations. (The template for the report will be provided.) 

Weight

Total = 50%

• 40% Technical Report (including project source code)
• 5% Poster (A3, PDF format)
• 5% Video Presentation (1-2 minutes)

Due Date

Project Report and Code: Friday Week 10

Project Poster and Video Presentation: Friday Week 11

Assessment Guidelines

This is an individual assessment. All tasks (data collection, problem solving, designing, coding, testing, analysing) must be individual. The submission is individual.

You are expected to submit to relevant assignment folders on unit site.

Task Submission Details:

Your submission needs to be in the form of a report, a poster and video presentation (digital version only). In addition, all code must be compressed into one zip file and uploaded to CloudDeakin along with Technical Report.

The Technical Report must have all of the following sections:

1. A description of the project and the problem it is solving in sufficient detail. This includes:
   1. Problem statement
   2. The hypothesis being tested and research questions this project addresses
2. Detailed description of the approach. This includes the technology and resources used
   1. Architecture of the system components (hardware and software) and their interconnections. You can use diagrams/flowcharts with accompanying text descriptions.
   2. Photos of the actual hardware setup and environment
3. Data collection process: Your data collection approach and accompanying evidence (e.g. how you cleaned & integrated data)
4. Ethical concerns of the project
5. Your results and a discussion on:
   1. How you have tested your hypothesis and a discussion around it.
   2. A visualisation of your data
6. Challenges & Lessons learnt
7. Proposals for future extensions of the project.

Your Poster should be abstract representation of your Technical Report in one page. Some resources on creating posters:

http://guides.nyu.edu/posters

http://hsp.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/ScientificPosters.pdf

http://www.makesigns.com/tutorials/

Your Video Presentation should be a marketing style to pitch the project idea and show the results.