Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Project Schedule from now until the End

With this post I will outline our project schedule that we have until the end of the year.  We only have 4 weeks remaining to meet our deadline.


  • April 22 - April 28:  Build Popsicle Stick Houses.  Get Bootstrap Working for the rest of the website.
  • April 29 - May 5: Improved Interface /controls for toggling lights on or off.
  • May 6 - May 12: Company Side Support.
  • May 13 - May 19: Investigate additional features such as a video feed or support for other appliances.
We wish to build small model houses out of Popsicle Sticks to easily show how our service can be implemented and used.  We want to finish this before our presentation this upcoming Friday (Scholar's Day).  Another goal we want to have completed for that is a nicer looking website interface for the users to turn on and off their lights.

We also wish to investigate additional controls, such as the ability to turn off all lights in a specific room, or perhaps even the house.  We feel that a checkbox for every light in the house that the user has to go through and click one by one is not the best interface possible.

Right now, we have been focusing mostly, if not entirely, on the user without much consideration for the Company providing this service.  We want to provide a way for the company to monitor all of their clients.  This would require having a copy of every database on each PI in the clients' houses on the Company's server.

Lastly, we would like to see if we can easily add additional features.  It would be nice if users could not only control lights, but also video feeds (for monitoring or security) and other appliances in their home.  This goal is secondary to our other goals, and may not be accomplished if the previous goals take longer to complete than anticipated.

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