All members of the CREU team, along with Dr. Lee, meet once a week on Thursdays for an hour and discuss research, present information, ask questions, discuss progress and set future goals for the project. All meeting times, and everything accomplished in each meeting, is recorded on this page.
9/9/10
2:00pm Davis
First official meeting of the semester. Group members received opportunity to ask questions, discuss goals, and get a brief overview of the project. Members read over proposal, reviewed the requirements and expectations, and became familiar with the project. Group photos were also taken.
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Greene, Khamphavong
9/16/10
2:00pm Davis
Group members assigned roles. Nancy and Chloe were given the assignment of putting together the website, and Catherine and Bretny were assigned to compose two different summaries/PowerPoints on witricity. Group members received opportunity to examine the sensors that will be used for future research.
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Greene, Khamphavong
9/23/10
2:00pm Davis
The completed website was presented to the team. PowerPoints were presented to the team. All group members were assigned new topics to write summaries about.
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Greene, Khamphavong
9/30/10
2:00pm Davis
Everyone presented their summary on TinyOS, and facts about witricity. Group members began installing software for sensors. Group members assembled sensors, and went over instructions for use.
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Greene, Khamphavong
10/7/10
2:00pm Davis
Catherine Greene and Chloe Norris presented via Power Point facts about Wireless Sensor Networks and different operating systems used for WSNs. Dr. Lee reviewed material gone over during presentation, then discussed and explained many relevant topics relating to the presentation. Some of the topics she discussed included data transmission via one-hop vs. multi-hop, paths and routing algorithms, sensor energy levels, complexity levels of certain sensors, memory size of sensors, computational capacity of sensors, and many other topics. Time was also given for questions and answers. At the end of the meeting, each member was either assigned an operating system or a language used in an operating system and was assigned to write a summary on the given topic.
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Greene, Khamphavong
10/14/10
2:00pm Davis
The meeting began with Bretny Khamphavong and Nancy White giving a presentation about TinyOS. Afterwards, summaries about Contiki OS, the NesC language, Mantis, and Lite OS were presented and discussed. After going over the summaries, Dr. Lee explained to the group the concept of race conditions within certain systems. The group was given the assignment of putting together a PowerPoint with all of the reviewed operating systems on it, and to come up with an interesting application we could incorporate witricity within WSNs.
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Greene, Khamphavong
10/21/10
2:00pm Davis.
The meeting began when the entire group gave a combined presentation of different types of operating systems that are typically used within WSNs, and the programming language nesC. Dr. Lee discussed many aspects to consider before choosing an operating system for a WSN; such as what type of sensor is involved, and it's energy source. The group discussed their ideas about interesting ways of incorporating Witricity within WSNs.
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Greene, Khamphavong
10/28/10
2:00pm Davis.
During this meeting, the group, along with Dr. Lee, finished downloading Moteview (the software used for wireless sensors). We started to get the feel of using the software, and each group member was assigned to read and summarize parts of the Moteview manual to better understand the software before we use it within our research. We also discussed which programming language we should use within the programming components of our research. We all came to agree on NesC, for the reason that NesC is used within many different WSNs, and it would probably be the most effective language for one who is new to programming within WSNs.
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Greene, Khamphavong
11/04/10
2:00pm Davis.
During this meeting, the group gave a combined presentation of the MoteView users manual. Many questions were addressed and answered. Each group member also turned in a written summary to Dr. Lee on their part of the presentation. After the presentation, each group member was given a section of the MoteWorks guide to summarize and give a presentation on for the next meeting.
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Greene, Khamphavong
11/11/10
2:00pm Davis.
The Group gave the combined presentation of the MoteWorks guide. The group then discussed the CUR - Posters on the Hill application. We also set an additional goal: To develop a simulation test bed for wireless electricity charging within a wireless sensor network. We concluded the meeting by planning what we were going to put on the CUR application, and discussing what will be done over Thanksgiving break
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Greene, Khamphavong
12/02/10
2:00pm Davis.
The Group gave a presentation to a Radford University journalist about the project milestones, project information, and answered questions. Photographs of the group were also taken to post in potential school articles. The first stipend was given to the group members.
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Greene, Khamphavong
12/09/10
2:00pm Davis.
The Group was able to find a computer lab on campus in which they could download the software needed for sensors and the WSN. Each member was given a key to the computer lab. The group discussed what would be done over break, when our next meeting would be, and when the next stipends would be received. Dr. Lee treated the whole team to Starbucks as a reward for the hard work put into the semester!
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Greene, Khamphavong
Next meeting: After Break
Second semester official meeting information: Mondays 6:00pm Davis.
01/31/11
6:00pm Davis.
The group reunited and had the first official meeting of the semester. The group discussed downloading the software needed for sensors. The group also talked about the Tapia Conference in San Francisco, and who all was interested in attending. The assignments for the group, as a whole, were to download the software on the networks lab computers by the end of the week, and to write a budget proposal for the Tapia Conference.
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Greene, Khamphavong
02/07/11
6:00pm Davis.
The main topic of discussion was the difficulties presented with downloading the software in the networks computer lab. Issues with permissions, and overall performance of the software on the computers were the main sources of trouble. A budget plan was presented for the Tapia conference, and a meeting time was set for the group members to unofficially meet during the weekend to work with software on Bretny Khamphavong's laptop.
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, Greene, Khamphavong
Absent to meeting: White- Due to her roommate being in the emergency room.
02/14/11
6:00pm Davis.
Much progress was made when the group worked with the software on a personal laptop, as opposed to one of the computers in the networks lab. A demonstration program was presented, and the group worked on integrating the motes within the program. The weekly assignment was given to get the motes to respond to the written code, and to eventually sniff the interaction within each of the motes.
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Greene, Khamphavong
02/21/11
6:00pm Davis.
The group discussed the current progress with the software, and also discussed the Tapia Conference plans.
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Khamphavong
Absent to meeting: Greene- Sick with the flu.
02/28/11
6:00pm Davis.
The group worked on the poster proposal for the Tapia Conference, and also analyzed the code that we had written for the mote software.
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Greene, Khamphavong
03/07/11
6:00pm Davis.
The group discussed traveling information, and anticipated expences for Tapia Conference.
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Greene, Khamphavong
03/14/11
6:00pm Davis.
The group worked experimented with the motes and the software used for mote communication. Some trouble was experienced with injecting the code into the motes. All of the code compiled and ran smoothly.
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Greene, Khamphavong
02/21/11
6:00pm Davis.
The group discussed and began to construct an optimization model. The poster proposal submitted to the Tapia Conference was officially accepted. The group began to construct a poster draft throughout the week.
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Greene, Khamphavong
03/28/11
6:00pm Davis.
The group finished the poster for the Tapia conference. We put together a side to present at the conference, and discussed all traveling plans and went over materals that we planned to present.
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Greene, Khamphavong
04/03/11 - 04/06/11
San Francisco, California
All four group members and Dr. Lee attended the Tapia conference and presented on April 3rd. The following days, we listened to numerous speakers, and met several undergrad/grad students, professors, and several company representatives and shared ideas and thoughts about all of the speakers and presentors. The trip was highly productive and successful.
Present to trip: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Greene, Khamphavong
04/11/11
6:00pm Davis
This was the first official meeting since the San Francisco trip. Members began to plan for presentation that will be given on April 21 at Radford University. Bretny and Nancy were in charge of creating a power point, Catherine Greene and Chloe Norris were in charge of finalizing the programming component of the research.
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Greene, Khamphavong
4/18/11
6:00pm Davis
The group met up in the unix lab to further work on the program and the power point. Dr. Lee reviewed current progress, and helped the group with a few of the details concerning the presentation.
Present to meeting: Dr. Lee, Norris, White, Greene, Khamphavong
