Smart animal control

The goal of the project is to design a control device to control the livestocks in the rancher away from an exclusive region,providing a non-gps, low power consumption and low cost solution.It would possibly leads to establish an effective virtual fencing system.

=Problem Definition=

Background
Nowadays,many companies had provide solutions of GPS virtual fening siystems in order to remove the high cost iron fences, providing possibilty to control livestocks outside the rancher with mbile devices.However, in some rancher away from city, it might be hard to recceive gps and internet signal. This would cause gps/internet based control system failing. In order to build a wireless control system in such area, we are going to build a non-gps/internet device to replace existed physical fences.

Specifications
=Design Considerations= The rancher require a wireless control system without gps or internet access,so we first consider some wireless signal options.At the begining we list sevral approaches(Wifi,ZIgbee,Bluetooth,NFC,nRF24l01),after comparison we exclude wifi(too much bandwith for our purpose compare to zigbee),Bluetooth(HIgher power consumption),and combined nRF and nfc into nRf24le1 + RFID.

With Zigbee,we're aiming at creating a local internet in order to communicate device on livestocks and the base stations.With this option,Hopefully we can develop a RSSI function thus we can know where the livestock located. Onther other hand, the nRf24le1 option leaves us lower power consumption since the device on the livestock,RFID,is an half-passive device(according onr of our member suggested).Also,this choice might provider lager transmittion range. =Project Learning=

=Schedule= Specific Project Plan =Final Design=
 * 03 Sep 2018 to 10 Sep First instructor team meeting
 * 03 Sep 2018 to 17 Sep Clinet interview questions
 * 10 Sep 2018 to 22 Sep Information Gathering
 * 24 Sep 2018 to 08 Oct Snap shot presentation
 * 17 Sep 2018 to 22 Oct Concept Generation
 * 15 Oct 2018 to 22 Oct Modeling
 * 22 Oct 2018 to 12 Nov Trouble shooting
 * 22 Oct 2018 to 12 Nov Wikipage development(Draft)
 * 05 Nov 2018 to 26 Nov Concept Verification
 * 23 Nov 2018 to 10 Dec Design review Presentation
 * 23 Nov 2018 to 10 Dec Design review

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