Inspiration
2 ordinary objects, a bed and a lamp, working together to create a smoother wake-up experience.
What it does
The bed is actually equipped with a system tracking the user's sleep patterns which are shared with the lamp to allow it to wake one up at the most appropriate time.
How we built it
We solderered an accelerometer to an Arduino to get live-feedback of the motions of the user lying in the bed, and set up a Python program to analyze the sleep phases and send the results live to a user-friendly dashboard.
Challenges we ran into
We struggled at first to connect all 3 layers together. The Arduino had to send live data over to the Python running the analytic program and this one had to send its result to the HTML/JS website thereafter. Our program written in Python took considerably more time since we had to choose how to structure the data to then be analyzed.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Our team is very proud over the fact that we managed to dispatch the workload in an efficient way and that the final product is actually functional.
What we learned
We learned that making a product with even a small variety of components can take much more time than is ordinarily available. Also, we realized that the teamwork we had helped us significantly towards having a working prototype by the time limit.
What's next for Sunrise
Improving the user's experience through the dashboard. More relevance and more predictiveness.
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