What problem you are trying to solve?

  • Save deposit box is common in people’s house
  • Key could be recognised and stolen easily.
  • The safety of the password would be strongly decreased if the owner wrote the password down on paper.
  • Thieves would come for either a key or password.

Who would use it?

  • Anyone who needs to keep something safe in their house and is using a traditional safe box.

What is your prototype?

  • Save deposit box (that uses pictures, i.e., colour pattern, as the “key”)

How does your prototype work?

  • A colour strip to open a basic lock. The Colour pattern is detected by a sensor. The lock is opened and locked by a motor.

How did you implement your prototype?

  • Use Arduino and C++ to implement a safe box locking system with a colour sensor.

Benefits

  • No one ever thinks about this kind of “key”, including thieves
  • It is probably okay if you just hang the picture (colour pattern) on the wall. Nobody would know.

Future potential

  • A more friendly GUI user interface may replace the current command line interface.

What we learned

  • The Internet of Things technology.
  • The embedded software development.
  • Video creation and editing.

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