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Riverwood Acoustics offer premium speakers made from reclaimed river wood grown hundreds of years ago.

Riverwood Acoustics is currently hosted on Shopify and has a default theme that needs improvement. The client wants a redesigned Shopify website that is more premium and cleaner while maintaining the unique historic storyline.

Riverwood Provide users with a premium listening experience with a high-quality designed speaker. The products are designed to last a lifetime and come with a lifetime warranty.

Target Group

Address the high-end home and portable speaker market with a focus in superior sound quality and sustainable design.

Currently the website has a few problems:

Hard to navigate, and cluttered.

content is not structured.

SEO and indexing problems.

Usability and navigation problems

Performance and Load time problems

Project goals

Redesign Shopify site layout to a modern & clean version to better showcase products.

Create new landing page on Shopify store that better represents the values of Riverwood Acoustics.

Optimize the Shopify store for search engine SEO’s.

Optimize Shopify store for better performance and load time.

Optimize for better navigation and Usability.

Project Outcomes

Currently at the end of the project, Riverwood Acoustics will have a website with premium and clean interface, optimized for better usability, superior performance and load time and better Search Engine Optimization.

This would increase conversion rates and improve the user experience and interactions through the buying process.

Learning Opportunities

Working on this project has improved our work skills and interaction with the real business world.

We had opportunities to learn more about improving a website’s performance, SEO, and conversion rates. This impacts the e-commerce business immensely and gave us insight for further issues we could face after this project.

The ability to attract organic traffic and make a sale on their website.

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This software has the ability to detect lung cancer patterns and signs from lung tomography scans, which will significantly help doctors accelerate through the deduction process.

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Aventures Ahoy Adventures is an indoor playground for children between the ages of 0 to 10, and is inclusive to all children, including those with special needs.

Using this technology, our team was asked to create a medium-scale solution for children that allows them to play safely and freely within the confines of the indoor playground. The treasures, which consist of toys with readers attached to them or concealed inside them, will be secured to sections of an internal structure inside the playground, such as a slide or in a ball pit. Upon finding the treasure, the child will tap their bracelet, which contains a ‘tag’, on the toy or treasure that has a reader affixed to it, and get a point for discovering the treasure.

The purpose of the project is to make an existing system more user friendly and easier to set up and manage. Currently, there are already treasure hunt games that are conducted within the facility, but they are tracked manually on paper. Paper and pencil are messy and increases contact points.

To fulfill our goal, we aim to store the information that is read and send it to a database. Information can take up a lot of space and storing it in a single place can be risky. If you lose the computer, you lose the data. How we circumvent that issue, as well as the issue of running out of space with all the space information takes up, is to use the Cloud. The Cloud allows you to securely store your data on servers online, rather than on your computer. It allows for uninterrupted streams of information to flow across spans of the internet and maintain your data, while allowing you ease of access.

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Keely: I am working with Impact Hub Ottawa to develop a marketing plan, creating two user personas and journey maps. I have also worked with Project In-Kind, participating in a meet-up and joining their student ambassador team.
Aiden: I am working to enhance their current scheduling system to reduce errors and automate bookings. I have also greatly reduced the amount of manual work required to keep their system up to date.
Cecilia: I am working on designing logos that communicate the message of each brand. along with assisting in rebranding for future projects.
Ameera: I am working with the City for All Women Initiative, to develop a light-rebrand campaign and a complete website re-design and layout. I also created a social media launch campaign to increase engagement and awareness.
Michaela: I am currently working with CICan Impact to build a website called Humans of Impact. Inspired by the Humans of New York initiative, their goal is to present compelling digital stories told by students about Social Enterprises in their local communities. The ImpAct initiative aims to support colleges and institutes in achieving their shared vision of a Better Future for Peoples and Communities.
Jordan: I am working with Rideau-Rockcliffe, Ottawa Good Food Collective, and Social Harvest with creating a website to help them efficiently operate a non-profit online grocery store on the Shopify platform.

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Moisture accumulation issues often arise in finished basements within the Ottawa area. We have compared the heat and moisture transfer of a traditional finished basement wall, a styrorail insulation wall with a vapour barrier and a styrorail insulation wall without a vapour barrier. Through WUFI simulations, we can observe the moisture and heat transfer through each of the wall assemblies and determine any areas where moisture accumulation may occur, leading to possible mould growth. We also considered a warm year and a cold year in Ottawa, to determine if our climate may have an impact on the performance of the wall systems. We did not observe any notable changes in performance between a cold and warm year.

We compared the WUFI results with an ASHRAE standard for moisture transfer through various materials to determine that WUFI was producing an accurate representation of a traditional below grade finished wall assembly. With this information we were able to simulate the Styrorail wall with and without a vapour barrier accurately.

By analyzing the WUFI simulations and through the use of R, we can determine if any one wall will perform better in regards to moisture accumulation and heat transfer. Through the use of R, we can see that there is a relationship between the vapour resistance and the moisture within the wall assembly. We have determined that the Styrorail wall with a vapour barrier will perform better in regards to vapour resistance and moisture accumulation.

While a vapour barrier may not be required with the installation of Styrorail products in all municipalities, we recommend including a dedicated vapour barrier.

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For the hardware side, the project builds on an Internet of Things (IoT) system of sensors that will monitor several targeted plant growth parameters in real-time. For our project’s specific case, we will be using sensors to monitor the soil and temperature, the soil moisture and the humidity of the microgreen crops. Each of these sensors will be wired and programmed to send data to a microcontroller that will transmit data to a computer. Using this architecture, the project will be scalable. Depending on the size of the farm, a new microcontroller can be added with its own set of sensors and communicate with the computer. This makes it so the project can be implemented potentially on all scales of farms. After the computer receives the data it will in turn share its acquired data with Cayenne; an IoT platform. By doing this, anybody with access to the Cayenne account, can access the sensor information. Making it easy for someone to login into Cayenne from a computer or a phone to access the information from any location. Making it very convenient for a user, instead of having to go to the farm and checking themselves.

For the website, the client wanted a website that they could use to market the company and display all of their products. To do this, we used two pages for the website, a home page that displays some background information about the company and what kind of products they can buy, and a products page that shows the individual items and their descriptions. To design the look of the webpages, we used a software called NicePage that allowed us to drag and drop html objects into a page and export them to html without the hassle of writing any complex css or javascript ourselves. Once we had the pages designed, we imported them to an IDE to edit the text and images on the page, and to add some final touches. We used a flask which is python based micro-framework, which is a basic MVC format for the website. Originally, we were planning on using AWS(Amazon Web Services) to host the website, but since the website doesn’t need much storage or much REST end-points, we decided to use Netlify instead. Netlify is a free service with a Git-based workflow and serverless platform to host sites.

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This project was a collaboration with Adobe to develop workshops for students using Adobe Spark. These workshops were designed to improve students’ digital literacy skills by training them how to create visually attractive personal portfolios of their academic and industry experience. Two professors worked with a team of eight students recruited from various design programs at the college – Graphic Design, Photography, Advertising, Journalism, and Human Centred Design.
In addition to live workshops, online ‘Playbook’ versions of the workshops were also developed, available on the Algonquin College Library website at https://algonquincollege.libguides.com/digital-portfolios.
This project reinforced the college’s strategic goal of preparing students for work in an increasingly digitized working environment. Adobe benefitted from the improved awareness and usage of their software at Algonquin College and other post-secondary institutions. The number of Adobe Creative Cloud license activations at Algonquin College increased by 100% from 5,000 to over 10,000 activations over duration of project.

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The project is designed to be a Sustainable Residence complying to the client’s requirements. Passive design strategies are implemented throughout the project to make use of the available site and climatic conditions, strategies that drove the design of the project. It follows a modular construction method which responds sensitively to the surrounding environment, as the site contains immense vegetation in and around it. This means that the design is tailor made for the site, hence making it unique to the client.
The passive design strategies adopted after research include-
• CLT construction with concrete topped flooring for harnessing the thermal mass available during winter.
• Hempcrete for prefabricated modules that have good thermal capacities along with being a carbon sink.
• Manually movable louver panels that can be adjusted according to the sun path for optimum adjustment of internal comfort.
• Shading system that is built with carefully selected angles to let in the sun during winters while blocking the harsh sun of the summers.
sun studies were conducted, along with daylighting and shading study to analyse the impact of the design strategies in reduction of energy use for artificial lighting, and to arrange the space layouts to harness maximum passive heat.

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This project is the concept of the snowblower robot. It follows a designated path and removes the snow along the way. This is shown as an automated means of conventional snow removal where human intervention is required. We have based this project on Arduino Uno R3. We have a pre-programmed path of the robot, it will follow the same path unless there is an obstacle. If there is an obstacle, it will avoid it and come back to its original path by the use of an ultrasonic sensor. All is driven by motor and done automatically.

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