Team members:
- Alex Fosdick
- Bryan Edelman
- Justin Simmons
- Michael Stein
For our Capstone senior design project, we will be building a Beverage Dispensing System (BDS) where we will interface electrical devices to mechanical devices to control and deliver a diverse and complex project. Often times at restaurants, event venues, fast food joints, bars, and many other consumer locations where drinks are sold, the customer often must wait for attention from a waitress and sometimes receive poor service. Waiters get busy, forget customers, sometimes ignore them, or lack the drive to deliver great service often leaving the customers with less than what they paid for or even worse, a bad product. Our system eliminates the need for the constant interaction between service provider and customer, giving the customer a cheaper and faster option in obtaining a beverage of their choice. A single dispenser will be implemented with a refrigerator and a CO2 system for pressurizing and dispensing the different carbonated beverages. The system is a collection of these separate drink dispensers that automatically pour a regulated amount of a desired drink into a customer's cup. The system has a database to keep track of the number of drinks bought by the customer in a database and hypothetically, allows for automatic billing without the customer having to worry about consistently paying every time they need something such as a refill. The administrator will have the ability to remotely control and monitor the state variables of the system such as pressure, temperature, and volume of drinks being dispensed and also be notified when the system is experiencing errors or low volumes.