Future Improvements

When protyping our design, we 3D-printed 3 different bottle bodies. Unfortunately, all of them leaked. We had to adapt to finish the project on time, and we utilized a separate metal bottle to fit our purposes. Going forward, we would want to create our own bottle body that is designed specifically for our product, with the tracking technology built in.

Unfortunatley, the LED lights and temperature sensors that we purchased did not work. We consider both of these parts important to the whole product that we are producing. The LED lights would be on the outside of the cap and light up to remind the user to drink or alert them of other notifications within the bottle's app. The temperature sensors were an additive that would allow the user to also see their temperature of their water in the bottle. We aren't sure what went wrong with these two devices, but we would do more research on them to get them connected to the product.

We wanted this bottle to be able to be recharged, so we purchased rechargeable batteries. Rather than having someone plug it into the wall, we want it to have a charging dock. The user would place their bottle in the dock and they could leave it there to charge, or they could detach the bottom component, which contains the electronics,  and use the bottle by itself. 

Our capacitors are able to accurately measure the water level in a bottle, but that is only when the bottle is in the correct position standing up. Since bottles are often shaken or titled throughout the day, we don't want the capacitor to get confused and report the wrong water level reading.  We would either develop a way to detect the angle of the water in the bottle and only report values when it is at 0 degrees or only have values reported when the cap is put back on the bottle. The latter idea may only work with models where the user has to take off the cap to drink.