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Our group was given the task of modifying a training body armour to have it detect the force of strikes and send that information to a mobile device via Bluetooth. We used 8 sensors and programmed them to detect the force and placement of strikes. We then used an ESP32 chip to deliver that information to an application on a mobile device. The application was created by the Computer Science students. In order to attach the sensors, we removed the outer layer of the armour and placed the sensors in that area. We also included a rechargeable battery along with a recharger.

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The 5WE project aims to bring “5G” advances to home Internet users. Benefits include SIM-based account management; a common experience whether users are connected via cellular, wired broadband, or both together; and better prioritization of sensitive user traffic during busy periods through 5G’s “Reflective Quality of Service” feature.

The project identified several new or in-development standards to support 5G home users, some describing user traffic and others addressing connection setup, and one project in progress to implement these standards. All of these use a popular ethernet VPN – the Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) – as a starting point.
5G user traffic is carried by a new protocol called 5WE, defined in the Internet Engineering Task Force’s RFC8822. 5WE presents itself as a “version 2” of PPPoE, modified to carry a 5G session identifier, 5G Quality of Service Flow Identifier (QFI) and 5G Reflective Quality of Service Indicator (RQI).
Before user traffic can flow, the connection must be set up. The Broadband Forum’s TR-456 and TR-470, both works in progress, describe extending PPPoE with a Vendor Specific Network Control Protocol and Vendor Specific Network Protocol to allow it to carry 5G SIM authentication messages to the 5G network as part of connection setup.
The Broadband Forum’s “OB5WWC” is actively building a reference implementation of these protocols.

In this phase of the project, we read the standards and the code for popular open source PPPoE implementations. We developed a working test setup using the Roaring Penguin PPPoE package and made a series of modifications to its code and configuration to start to align it with the new standards. We also set up and ran the partial implementation from OB5WWC.

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Our project was developed in partnership with Renew Neurotherapy, a Neurofeedback clinic located in Ottawa. We sought to adapt their Balanced Brain Points Program (BBPP), a program that aims to improve mental health through tracking and improving habits and setting lifestyle goals, from its paper and pencil method to a modern, digital solution. Our goal was to create a digital solution that could be easily used by patients and encourage continual usage and to provide their therapist with data and insights on how they are progressing.

Balanced Brain (by Renew) is our solution and an innovative application that helps patients with mental health issues to develop healthy lifestyle changes. We began the process with thorough user research and went through 3 iterations of design, prototype, and usability testing to figure out the best approach for users. Meanwhile, after the client meetings and extensive technological research, we figured out the technology solution to fit our client’s needs and requirements.

Our application has three profiles of different access levels and is designed to be responsive with various devices from mobile to desktop focusing on accessibility.

As a Patient :
Track daily activities and reflect on them
Get customized daily rewards based on completing activities
Share progress with their therapists

As a Therapist :
View their patients’ data
Create new patient accounts
Track daily records and progress
Manage the list of activities, reflection questions, and rewards for each patient

As an Admin :
View all patients and therapists in the clinic
Create new patient and therapist accounts
Manage the list of default activities, reflection questions, and motivational quotes

Although we faced many challenges in the process of our project, we learned a lot throughout it. Technical knowledge we acquired through working on the application include the use of Firebase authorization and how to implement it; Creating an app using NextJS as a framework; and annotating code using JSDoc. Aside from technical knowledge, we gained experience in communicating with a client to determine their needs in order to provide a proper solution. Furthermore, we gained experience from working as a team by utilizing team members’ strengths and assisting each other through hurdles. We can say it was a valuable experience for all of us. We would like to thank our client, professors, and Algonquin College for this opportunity.

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The Winter 2022 SLiDE cohort (SLiDE 8.0) has undertaken two new digital technology projects for community-based organizations:
• Eco East is a grassroots advocacy, action and education organization with a focus on sustainability for the United Counties of Prescott & Russell. Their work spans 4 interconnected themes: waste reduction, habitat conservation and regeneration, climate action, and monitoring pollution from landfills. The SLiDE team designed, developed and launched a new on-line presence to communicate their values, engage the community, recruit volunteers (100% volunteer-driven organization), and publish their accomplishments and campaigns. The project has been an opportunity for the us to collaborate our skills, and learn about the long term benefits of sustainability.
• Kettle & Stony Point First Nation is a community located in southern Ontario along the shores of Lake Huron. The SLiDE team designed and developed a new on-line resource to assist them in engaging their community, with a specific focus on harm reduction in pregnancy. This work is done in collaboration with the Kettle & Stony Point First Nation Child and Family Services and utilizes comprehensive information developed as part of a community project by Algonquin College’s Nursing Program in Fall 2021. The material provided to the team has helped us garner both a better understanding of the project’s aim and the community it stands to serve.

It was a very rewarding experience to work on this project. We were able to learn more about a First Nation community, and even about sustainability.

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Using two drones we are trying to achieve drone to drone communication using a laser on one drone and a photodiode on another drone. We are using Aruco markers and raspberry pi for drone detection and locking.

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Our team thought it was best to execute primary and secondary research methods, such as conducting interviews via telephone, and using secondary research on consumer trends in this region. Due to the needs identified in past conversations with our client, and considering the negative effects caused from the pandemic on the senior living industry in the United States, we predicted that there is a vast number of opportunities for the client within the USA LTC market where a platform like Welbi’s would be a great fit to fill the market gap for an assisted living software software.

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Our client Sophia Levy-Presner is the operator of Building Blocks HR (BBHR) in Toronto. The intention of this organization is to maximize HR for small and medium enterprises that do not have a recruitment and selection process. BBHR is predicated on the idea that it provides three basic packages namely standard, plus and custom for starting a Human Resource department from the bottom. Corporations can always choose specialized services from all of these options to meet the customers’ needs.

The idea of this research is to establish a web-based option that enables workers to examine HR standards, benefits information, and vacations from their smartphone or pc without attempting to consult the boss or owner, and then all the information about the employees, customers, companies should be stored on a database to be more organized and improved efficiency of customer management. Afterwards, we implemented our skills to get the work done collaboratively.

As there was currently no database in the server, we developed a database in the server from the beginning to keep the record of all the employees and customers that BBHR has. At the same time, we also create a web-based back-end management system for our client to do database management. The project’s goal is to create a fully working website for the customer that includes a database and a back-end database management system.

The android application would be supported on mobile devices. Any device with an internet connection and a web browser will be able to execute the web application. Users will be able to install a mobile application on their devices.

The official website only provides the most basic information about the company. So, we constructed more web apps for our customers, the corporate administrator, and a sole employee to view and organize information. We took advantage of the server’s current functions as much as feasible. At the same time, we also taught the client about using the server and left a permanent strategy for doing so.

This project has taught us teamwork which improves productivity, enhances flexibility, improves service levels, and overcomes obstacles. We helped each other throughout the whole project to get our work done flawlessly. Whoever was good at something used to teach others about the same to enhance the knowledge of all the members of the team.

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For Costa Ricans, knowledge of the English language is crucial for anyone looking for good paying jobs, and getting accredited certificates for their knowledge is what makes people stand out of the crowd, especially in the digital world.

During the pandemic, the online space has grown substantially, and since more jobs are now remote than ever before, the need for knowing the English language has also grown. Our clients Andrea Minicola from SpeakHabla are working hard to bridge the language gap for residents in Costa Rica.

Our team, MegaDevs, while only formed a few months ago, has been hard at work researching, designing and developing solutions for our clients to help them adapt to the digital world. Our team members are:
Eduard Draghiciu (Team Lead)
Johanna Cano (Design Lead)
Rodrigo Gil (Tech Lead)
Ben Peterkins (Developer)
Youssef Khalil (Developer)
Sherefat Onibile (Developer)

We are working with Speak Habla, an established brand in Costa Rica, to develop an English language assessment platform called BELA (Business English Language Assessment). Our platform will allow business professionals to take English tests, and purchase official certification that can be downloaded or added to LinkedIn automatically.
BELA Platform will also allow HR Managers and companies to test their employees on their English level and monitor their progress.

We are building a highly performant and scalable full stack application that will replace their current testing system which involves a lot of manual work to operate. Our application will streamline most of their processes including test scores, generate official certificates, checkout and payment.

The dynamic test feature is what sets BELA apart from the competition. People will be able to take multiple English tests, and our testing algorithm will always show new questions every time. This allows our client to sell more certificates, and also provides BELA with the data to properly analyse and display individual growth based on different question sets.

HR Managers will be able to track employee progress, while admins will be able to add or edit test questions via an intuitive database management user interface called Rowy.

BELA is built using the following technology stack:

Javascript
React
Node.js
Firebase
Cloud Functions

After our first development phase is over, we are hoping that Speak Habla will continue the development roadmap proposed, which includes adding more features to the HR Manager/Company dashboard and to the Admin dashboard.

Finally, we would like to thank our teachers from the MAD9145 course, Adesh Shah and Adam Robillard, for giving us the opportunity to put what we’ve learned in school towards a real life project that impacts real people in a positive way.

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Trainer.ai, the mobile application our client works on, is a personalized trainer mobile application by using highly advanced machine learning technology and artificial intelligence. This App is primarily designed for users who can easily install and have a track of their daily physical training in a systematic workout regime without having human assistance. They applied sophisticated training algorithm to the mobile application to create a custom fit workout for users that consider their strength training ability and tools and equipment available at the gym.
In this project we are assisting the client to build a web application to help the client to manage exercises and workouts in mobile applications. We are using React.JS, TypeScript and TailwindCSS for front-end development, and the Apollo client with GraphQL to communicate with a backend database. We aim to implement 6 web pages including Login page, Dashboard page, Users page, Workouts page, Workout Plan page, and Setting page. Users will be able to log in to the system with their registered account (email and password), and they can create/update/delete data in this web application. Here are the pages and features:
Login Page:
• The pages that users can login with email and password.
• Users can also login with Gmail account.
Dashboard Page:
• List all exercises.
• Create new exercise.
• Update exercises.
• Delete exercises.
Users Page:
• List the all the users, and their profile information including email, phone number, description etc.
• Edit user’s information.
Workout Page:
• View all workouts.
• Create new workout.
• Update workouts.
• Add exercises to workouts.
• Delete workouts.
Workout Plan Page:
• View all workouts plans (a set of workouts).
• Create new plan.
• Update plans.
• Add workouts to plans.
• Delete plans.
Settings Page:
• Editing user account details.

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Right now, remote internet access is provided via satellite constellations that rely on microwave signals from satellite to ground connections. The next generation of satellite constellations will implement an optical satellite tracking system that points at satellites mid-trajectory with impeccable precision.
The SatelliteTrackers project aims to utilize current TLE data directly from Celestrak to provide accurate, real-time orbital positions of satellites, along with auto-alignment features, centroid computation, and satellite sorting algorithms compiled into a Python code to achieve the objective.
The project will use a modified TLE orbital position script that gives the right ascension and declination values of the selected satellite approximately 60 seconds ahead of the current time, allowing the telescope to be in line with the trajectory but remain ahead of the satellite for the highest accuracy.
At this point the code can compute a slope of the satellite’s movement. ASCOM commands, Skyfield Library, and T.MoveAxis are used to control the mount for the highest precision pointing.
One concept that allows the program to be accurate is the consideration of the perspective of the telescope, in that it will seem as if the satellite is moving fast directly above the telescope but slowing down towards the horizon. For this reason, the slope will constantly need to be updated to ensure the tracking is stable. The satellites are considered in view if they are more than 10 degrees above the horizon. Running this code and studying results based on the real-time tracking done via Stellarium yielded accurate results.
The user will have the chance to choose specific satellites to track and a switch-case can be implemented to allow for the accurate tracking of the desired satellite.

The project is capable of executing tracking features and adjusting the connected hardware seamlessly, with movement at 4 degrees per second and precise pointing. The SatelliteTracker is capable of tracking and imaging moving satellites with a field of view within 2 degrees, which is very accurate for this new technology.
The SatelliteTrackers system can be used outdoors with any imaging device (from cellphones to professional guide cameras), or it can be used in conjunction with the Stellarium virtual planetarium should weather conditions not allow for optimal visibility.

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