Team 6 spent the Fall 2019 & Spring 2020 semester developing an Early Wildfire Detection Device. This device includes a transmitting unit and a receiving unit that communicate over a WiFi network using LoRa communication technology and additional transmitting units can be added. Analog Values for temperature and smoke concentration along with a digital alarm signal are displayed individually per transmitting unit on a web-server that can be easily viewed by the proper authorities.

Due to the shape of a column load cell, the voltage coming out of the Wheatstone bridge, as it is attached to the inside lining of the load cell itself, is not linearized when force applied on the load cell is constantly increased or decreased. This project is then about creating a compensation circuit that includes a microcontroller to linearize this output voltage.

Solar Mist has created a self-contained irrigation system requiring no previous infrastructure by designing an automated, solar powered irrigation system thus enabling non-arable land to be sown and enhancing existing farmland. Through the use of wind, rain and soil moisture sensors, irrigation is optimized, water is conserved and crop yields are increased through the efficient use of resources based on immediate crop needs.

The objective of this design project is to study and report on the feasibility of new, tree-like power generation topologies based on nature. The goal is to find a way to make dispersed renewable power more economical and efficient. Power efficiency, cable costs, and overall returns on investment were compared between several simulated models, and improvements are shown in many of the new cases.

Team Propagation has revolutionized the automotive industry by developing a new safety feature for vehicles. The design incorporates Synthetic Aperture Radar technology to scan and detect imperfections in tires. These imperfections may include nails, bulges, or abnormal wear that may put the safety of commuters at risk.

The Remote Laser Tag System is mounted onto a remote-controlled vehicle and used to play a game that combines the classic game of laser tag with RC aircraft. It was designed with the goal of having a completely immersive user experience facilitated by a first person view, real-time video feed to the user’s phone from a wireless, joystick-controlled pan/tilt laser tag turret.

The Smart Fall Protection Harness System incorporates smart technology onto existing personal protective equipment for the height worker industry. The highlights of this system include a GPS mapping of the hazard zone, a real-time assurance of worker tie-off compliance, and a quick response alarm in the event of a fall. All of these features are monitored by a user interface that provides for real time viewing of worker status within the mapped work zone and notifies safety personnel, via text messaging, if a worker does not tie off to anchorage or has sustained a fall from height.

The project is a solar charge controller which accepts an input voltage of 120-150 V and will be stepped down to 48 V using a buck converter. Using a single pull double throw switching mechanism to safely send power to the battery or the load.The design helps houses that are cut off the grid.

This project focuses on stabilizing augmented images within live presentations. The team uses infrared tracking systems, commonly used in Virtual Reality, to develop a stable point in real space. This coordinate data is sent to Unity Software where the information can be used to accurately display the object within 10mm of the tracker in Virtual and Augmented Reality.

Project India's goal was to design an independent source of renewable energy for a school in a rural area of Meghalaya, India. Given a $60,000 budget, the team was to deliver a plan for purchase and potentially construction in which all expenses were accounted for.

Increasing interest in high frequency and high power data applications in addition to the explosive growth of Gallium Nitride (GaN) in semiconductors has led to a growing demand for transceivers/receivers that can match this upcoming generation of electronics. This project will concentrate on the power amplifier combiner stage of a receiver, or transceiver. In this undertaking, a wafer-level mix of ultra-small GaN power amplifier units will be combined to provide a 2 W output at 75 GHz to be fabricated utilizing off-the-shelf PAs in a silicon micromachined waveguide design.

In this project, Team Zero used machine learning and wireless sensors to gather data and train a neural net. This neural net can take channel readings from an electronic device and output a predicted location accurate within 2 cm of the actual position. In this video, the team will show the system setup and present some of our results.

Team 3, Always Sunny In Arizona, created an automated shade and awning controller. This was accomplished by hacking a Somfy wireless remote and incorporating a microcontroller to perform automated features. This automated controller can raise/lower the shade based on time of day, wind, sunlight, and temperature.

There is a plethora of data available in the electric utility sector at substations and other field devices that is rarely stored and analyzed in a central location. Grid Reliability Analysis Software Platform (GRASP) is a web-based application that is designed to centralize electrical fault events generated by field devices into a central location. These centralized fault events can then be analyzed in a common location by multiple departments within an electric utility to make informed operational, protection, automation, and maintenance decisions in an efficient manner.

Design a photovoltaic system that maximizes energy offset and financial savings over 20 years for five corporate buildings in the district of Crystal Park in Arlington, Virginia.

This project is focused on the simulation of variable-voltage variable-frequency drives (VVVFD) and their impact on a network affected by fault-induced delayed voltage recovery (FIDVR). FIDVR occurs when a transmission line fault causes air conditioning units in peoples' homes to stall, thus, rising in current down the line and causing a drop in the voltage along the transmission lines for an extended period of time.

Under Pressure has created a “Clinical Smart Insole” in order to track previously unknown medical information during the process of recovering from an injury. The product measures, calculates, and displays the distribution of pressure on the foot during any activity. The product was created by working closely with medical professionals in the hope of improving injury recovery time.

Our project focuses on the design of an electronic device that can detect radioactive materials present in the near vicinity. While there are other devices that can perform this function, they are bulky and immobile while ours will be handheld and easy to maneuver, at a low cost. This device has many possible applications such as nuclear threat detection, scanning the inside of nuclear facilities, ensuring proper radiation doses to cancer patients, and space weather research.

The Wireless Charging Design team has put together a video demonstrating the work they have completed this year. This video entails all of the simulations and 3D models they have created in a clear and concise format.

The project is the electrical characterization of bonded wafers. The purpose of the project was to brainstorm, research and innovate new design and characterization techniques for bonded wafers in general, and a low gain avalanche photodiode (LGAD) in particular. Furthermore, students had to apply these techniques on different types of wafers to expose students to a real life experience of semiconductor engineering.

Our device is a wearable belt which possesses static and dynamic object detection capabilities to replace the cane for the blind. The device consists of three sonar sensors, one located in the front on the belt, with the other two sensors being placed on both the left and right side of the belt. The sensors will detect any object within two feet and will give feedback to the user through vibration motors attached to the inside of the belt.

Our goal here is to use an ordinary outdoor patio umbrella and use sensors and a motor to make it automatically open/close depending on the weather. We are going to be detecting rain, sun, and wind with the sensors.

This system will effectively act as a blind spot detection system does on a car. It will constantly be on the lookout for other vehicles that may be in the driver’s blind spot as well as directly behind. This information will then be transmitted to the helmet and be represented visually via LED lights.

Summer heat can cause damage to vehicle interiors and can cause extreme discomfort and possible harm to vehicle owners. Existing vehicular windshield protection lack ease, relies too heavily on user interaction, or are expensive. This project focuses on the conceptualization and prototyping of an automatic sun shade for windshields.

The Internet of Things is a fast growing field with many applications. The LwM2M project shows the capabilities of embedded devices to communicate in a client-server model, providing up to date, real time measurements in a power and resource constrained environment.

The IoT lifesaver is a wearable device designed to prevent drownings in residential pools. It utilizes a pressure sensor and gyroscope to detect user position, and sends this data via radio communication at 433 Mhz. This data is used to determine if the wearer is underwater too long, and will alert the guardian via sms text message through Amazon Web Services.

The Smart Interposer design centers around Programmable Metallization Cells (PMC) which are devices that can grow or retract a filament between two metal layers depending on a voltage bias. PMCs can be programmed using a microcontroller to alter power routing in this interposer. By utilizing smart interposers, systems can be configured at a hardware level allowing for customization, field reconfiguration, and obfuscation.

Our project is a flask or a bottle that heats or cools your drink and maintains that temperature, using Peltier coolers and other gadgets. It is also portable, which means no need to have it plugged to an outlet all the time. And with the addition of the app, you can control the features of the flask on there, like setting the temperature.

To hear an important conversation in a crowded room or understand what others are saying in a video conferencing situation can be incredibly frustrating, due to unwanted noise and feedback. Team Suono has used their varied experiences with hearing aids and music equipment to build a system that with the push of a button implements acoustic noise and feedback cancellation. Through our demonstration, you will see how the Suono module can significantly enhance the listening experience.

This project involves imaging objects using millimeter waves, in the hopes of developing a Non-Line of Sight (NLoS) imaging system. This allows the user to gather information of their surroundings without being in direct eyesight. The system interprets data into usable images, and then corrects them to be more true to life.

Using unique patterns made of metal, a signal can be extracted through the use of microwaves. This signal is as unique as the structure and therefore can be used as a “key” to authenticate products.

The team built, tested, and implemented the electrical and computing systems for EMG signal capturing, power distribution and protection, and motor control for a functional EMG controlled powered multi-grip prosthetic hand.

Team 35 - Sensors for the Home’s, project was to create a sensor system that monitors home air conditioners for malfunction. We use Arduino sensors and radio to autonomously and wirelessly log your home conditions to a PC. That PC then uses our Python code to analyse the data to find how well your AC is working.

Photonic frequency converters are known to have non-linear transfer functions which can lead to spurious emissions, or other problems, in communication systems. The overall project objectives for Team 31 were to create a system model for a photonic downconverter and implement an algorithm to correct for the downconverter’s non-linearity property using MATLAB.

The team’s objective was to design, plan, analyze, and implement distribution, for a solar photovoltaic and battery storage solution for Ball State University. This challenge was nation wide and each finalist was required to host a live presentation to show the design solution and provide answers to judges and competition organizers.

A modified remote control car is able to follow and track a red square pattern without the need for any user input. In response to the pattern’s movements, the car is able to calibrate to a set distance by moving both forwards and backwards, and turning in any direction. This sort of technology could have many uses, including moving heavy objects without the risk of user injury.

This project is a standalone audio classification device using machine learning with GPU -accelerated processing. It uses audio signal processing functions and a convolutional neural network to classify general environmental-type sounds.

The A.P.A.R.T. project was created with ASU’s psychology department as a way to gather various location data on children. It utilizes ultra-wideband technology to track the children in the Child Study Lab, while looking at their social interactions between one another. The project focused on seeing how children move and make decisions within a classroom setting.

HiPhiRadio has worked to create a phased array architecture using market components in an effort to bring software defined radio beam-forming to the general public. Much like 5G technology, a phased array can reduce bandwidth congestion and enable an increased number of users. By using modular circuitry, field programmable gate array offloading and phase-locked loop characterization, HiPhiRadio brings that technology directly to you.

In the marine conservation sector there is a need for better technology to collect important data about these animals. Existing technologies use electrical tags to collect this data but they have limitations. This project aims to take one of the existing electrical tags and improve upon its features.

We have been working with General Dynamics on a cost effective solution for a photonic assisted frequency downconverter. This process had well established guidelines starting with the research of similar designs, selection of components, developing a block diagram and stress analysis, simulation using MATLAB, characterization of parts, and finally to test the system. Ultimately, the goal was to achieve a proper mixing signal.

The scope of this project was to create a Home Energy Monitoring System (HEMS). This is a low-cost, wireless, and open-source device that utilizes machine learning algorithms to accurately predict what electrical loads are being used inside of a residential home. The device was researched, prototyped, and implemented in the last two semesters.

A solar powered desalination unit capable of providing at least 300 liters of water for agricultural use per day. Unit will be designed, tested, and optimized, then an identical unit will be sent to a student team in Puerto Lobos, Mexico. A simulation using the location data for where the system will be sent was created in Python to accurately determine necessary configuration of the solar array.

This project is a Radio implemented through Software. The purpose was to be a pioneer for our customer to build a Software Defined Radio. An FM Receiver is being demonstrated and some QPSK Modulation work was started.

This is a teaser video for the project created by Team 48 at Arizona State University in Senior Design. It shows how customers are expected to participate in the service by completing a form. This is followed by the background structures that support the creation of the advertisement deck and the teaser for the projector prototype.

A thermal management strategy for high power dissipation has been defined. We Have developed thermal interface materials for high performance electronics.

The groups goal was to take dendritic systems found in nature and apply to solar cells. The group modeled dendritic patterns and has hopes to create a more efficient solar cell.

Our project is battery powered go-kart that has the potential to compete with traditional go-karts that are driven by a gas-based engine.