Team members:
- Damian Manda
- Sarah McNamara
- Leonardo Ascarrunz
- Brian Fairburn
Often, employees with cognitive disabilities have difficulty dealing with unexpected events that can occur while performing job related tasks. The purpose of our project is to provide a wirelessly powered sensor platform to monitor these employees, and various aspects of their workplace, to help them better function on the job. Because the sensor platforms provide feedback directly to a computer system and do not need to be serviced throughout the lifetime of the device, they are simple and convenient to use. A receiving antenna optimized to receive power in the 2.4 GHz band collects power on each module. A power management system interfaces between this antenna and a storage device, where power can be collected for later use. A low power microcontroller is used for sensor data acquisition and transmission management. Examples of sensors that can be used with this device include accelerometers, temperature, pressure, and galvanic skin response sensors. The data can then be wirelessly transferred using the ANT protocol to a computerized data collection system that processes and displays the data.