404! | Devpost

SENSOR
TEAM WORK
ELECTRONICS
PROTOTYPE

Inspiration

Real life situations in which strong environmental conditions lead to failure of communication systems.

What it does

Assess the surrounding area utilizing sensors - temperature, water, wind - to detect emergencies - fires, floods, hurricanes, etc. When detected, the information is spread automatically informing not only the emergency, but also the location where it happened.

How we built it

The prototype was developed using as its the Arduino and the TTGO Lora32. Respectively, they are responsible for the sensors administration and the information transmission.

Challenges we ran into

The project is essentially divided into two major sections: the detection and the transmission. The biggest challenge we ran into was making it so that both of these modules worked together in sync. Additionally, it was difficult to set up the connection between two TTGO boards - sender and receiver.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are really proud of how we created a prototype that is capable of solving a real life problem. The prototype itself is functional and also visually appealing.

What we learned

The capabilities of the group were very diverse, which means that everyone could learn with what the others could bring to the table. Designers learned electronics, engineers learned business management and so on and so forth. Also, we learned all that we could in these 2 days about the LoraWAN.

What's next for 404!

Improvement, improvement, improvement!! There is a lot of space for optimization and we would love to see how it looks after more time of development.