As part of the UT President's Bridging Barrier initiative — Whole Communities, Whole Health — we are developing a low-cost environmental data acquisition system capable of monitoring temperature, humidity, TVOC, PM, and presence, called BEVO Beacon. We have created an initial basic prototype and are looking for motivated students to join our team to support further development of BEVO functionalities. An initial deployment has been done in the Fall 2018 semester, the next rollout is planned for Spring 19 and Fall 19.
We are looking for a motivated student with interest and background in networking (zigbee, LoRa, WiFi, GSM, etc) in order to improve our data transmission capabilities (currently the devices only store data locally).
This is the perfect project for someone who wants to work on hardware and software development, and ensuring robust data collection, transmission and storage. We're looking for someone from ECE/EE or CS departments with interest in product design and execution.
It is a highly interdisciplinary research project and exposure to world-class research is guaranteed.
Networking (WiFi, BLE, LoRa, GSM, LTE)
Circuit design (mostly analog)
Programming: (Python) required, PHP/MySQL desired
Familiarity with Raspberry PI and IoT approaches ideal
Interest in sensing, and data analysis
The project has been ongoing with a first hardware prototype. Project will be going on for at least 2 more years.
Duties will be decided based on interest and skillset. In general the candidate will be part of planning, designing and executing the development stages of the BEVOBeacon, which can be comprised of electrical design, software, calibration, deployment, and data analysis.
