Abstract:

The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically increased our dependence on video chat software to enable remote work and school. The current solutions we use to connect lack the security, scalability, and performance that these systems must offer as the demands for real-time communications increases. SecureMeeting aims to deliver a secure real-time communications network protocol that is fully decentralized, highly scalable, crypto token incentivized, and results in a solution, which can serve as the communications layer in the decentralized development (web3) stack. In addition, SecureMeeting also provides a free video conferencing platform that is built on its decentralized network.

Addendum 1:

Needs Assessment:

My Senior Design project has several aspects that require a Computer Engineering problem-solving effort.

• Objective: We are working on www.securemeeting.org (Links to an external site.) which will be building a decentralized live streaming network that will work as a backend that other applications can plug into for high quality webrtc video and audio calls. We are also building our own system of mining tokens which will be Ethereum erc20 tokens. We will also be working on adding end to end encryption making this the safest way to video chat / conference. This project is interesting because its the first decentralized live streaming network and has the potential to be implemented into almost any application..

• Background: This project has been in the works with my partner Bryan Kyritz doing most of the developmental work and is a passion project for the both of us.

• Methodology: My team is in the process of developing ideas and testing calculations to determine the best course of action for this objective. We have a working prototype and have developed a road map on the site for anyone to view.

• Expected Results: We expect our future prototype to meet most, if not all of the project objectives. Further, we expect our prototype to be robust, repeatedly successful, and efficient.

• Costs: We expect our project to cost just the hours that we are coding it as we are not outsourcing anything.