1. GPS Pedometer

2. GPS Pedometer Dec 02-09 Presented: 11/14/02 Client: Senior Design
Group Members
Dan Luchsinger
Charles Thomas
Dave Myers
Joey Kremer
Faculty Advisors
C. “Jolly” Triska
Glenn Hillesland
Technical Advisor
Robert Weber

3. Overview Problem Statement Design Objectives End Product Description
Assumptions and Limitations
Technical Approach
Milestones
Budgets

4. Overview Cont. Risks & Risk Management Lessons Learned
Recommendations For Future Work
Summary
Questions

5. Problem Statement
The objective of this project is to develop a non-athletic track-oriented pedometer that would sell commercially for no more than $100. Its features include:
A distance calculation based upon global position satellite (GPS) data.
Elapsed time measurement.
Average speed in miles per hour.

6. Design Objectives Design Functionality Design Constraints
-Provide fairly inexpensive, accurate and interactive
pedometer for people who exercise outdoors.
Design Constraints
-Software cost will be less than $100
-Weigh less than 1.5 lbs
-Compact dimensions
Intended Users / Uses
-Runners, cyclists, rollerbladers, canoers
-Display elapsed time, distance traveled, average
speed, and total calories burned

7. End Product Description
The GPS Pedometer is a combination of a GPS receiver connected to a Palm PDA, via a data cable. The Palm PDA contains software that is implemented using Java to interact with the user. The developed software will retail for less than $100.
                                              

8. Assumptions and Limitations
The user already owns a PDA and GPS Receiver
The software is limited to serial port based Palm PDA’s
Weather will not affect the unit
The GPS Pedometer will not be dropped from a great height
The software for the GPS Pedometer will retail for less than $100
The unit must be lightweight
GPS resolution is at best 6.1 feet

9. Technical Approach Hardware Software - GPS receiver - Palm m105 PDA
- Serial port connections
Software
- Java interpreter on Palm OS
- Interactive software prompts user for weight, age, sex, and activity

10. Technical Approach

11. Milestones Display GPS data on PC Connect GPS receiver and PDA
Complete Java code
Complete GPS Pedometer implementation

12. Financial Budget Parts Estimated Cost Actual Cost 2 GPS receivers $250$0
PDA
$150
$106
Data Cable
$35 $8
Poster
$50
Bound Project Plan
$10
Totals
$495
$174

13. Personnel Effort Budget
Team Member
Estimated Effort
Actual Effort
Dan Luchsinger
170 Hours
112 Hours
Charles Thomas
175 Hours
105 Hours
Dave Myers
180 Hours
123 Hours
Joey Kremer
106 Hours
Totals
695 Hours
446 Hours

14. Risk and Risk Management
Loss of a team member
Failure to procure equipment donations
Unable to receive accurate GPS data
Failure to meet design expectations

15. Lessons Learned Communication is essential
Time management is important
Meet Weekly
Have Fun

16. Recommendations for Future Work
Add additional customized features
-Incorporate sound features
-Add power-saving schemes
Create software for all PDA models

17. Summary 

18. Questions?