Week 6 - Technology Project APPT 6212

04/04/14 (Fri)

We are still confusing about how to find the information that which can support on out project, and where is the direction to do our research. We do believe that ECG can determine on drowsiness but we can't even find one of the evidence to prove it and also can't get the electrocardiogram of drowsiness, most of them are heart attack or heart disease. So we still not clear on this area.

In the other hand, we are starting to discuss the whole system operation, the warning action, the components of the system and material. We also discuss what kind of information we need to prepare for our next presentation. We still have many unclear information are waiting to be solved. 

Week 5 - Technology Project APPT 6212

28/03/14 (Fri)

Today other groups to present their project of first presentation. Some of their idea quite interesting. Every group has to build up their product with some simple component, except my group. It is because of our idea is quite innovative on technology, like using a medical technology apply in automotive.

Although we do not need to built up our product but it is not easy to find the information and it is so difficult to read and understand, and also sometime we cannot get the evidence to prove the information it is work.

Now, we only can say it is not able to know if someone was going to sleep detected by "heart rate". Therefore we only can use ECG technology to do it in our project.

Week 4 - Technology Project APPT 6212

21/03/14 (Fri)

Today was our initial report and presentation, it was our proposal presentation. 

We have shown the report of the car accidents were caused by alcohol issue, drowsiness issue, and heart attack issue, where happened in one of the city from United State. The report was provided by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqXiiqYwyog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLTnF8Aj-dY

We have suggested some solutions as the initial idea for those scenarios. For alcohol issue, the engine would not be started if driver have exceeded the limit of alcohol containing. For heart attack and drowsiness issues, a warning alarm will be given by the system to wake driver up. 

Week 3 - Technology Project APPT 6212

14/03/14 (Fri)

Since we have decided to use heart rate detection as our technology project idea, and we need to apply this system into vehicle. First, we need to think and find out what makes the system work?

From lecturer's advice, we get some information about heart rate and Electrocardiography (ECG). ECG is the recording of the electrical activity of the heart, it can be displayed in a diagram form and it called Electrocardiogram. Obviously ECG it can checks a lot of symptoms of condition from our heart and body, also it can determines what kind of heart disease.


However heart rate just the recording the heart beat from pulse to pulse, can it determines about heart problem or someone is drowsy? This is the first question that we need to figure out, because if heart rate can tell you those informations, the system will be installed easily in vehicle. Besides, it is difficult to install the system in vehicle if we needed to use ECG technology.

TTEC 6315 Automotive Professional Practice

Week 1

In Professional Practice subject, me and Kang be a team to work for the group assignment. In the group project we are required to do observation in an automotive workshop regarding to the business as to the relationship within the shop or industry. Areas to focus will be customer service, work planning, allocation of working, health and safety, billing and return work procedure, waste management.

At first we need to find a workshop to progress our works. After our discussion, we decided to go New Lynn area to looking for a workshop. On Tuesday morning, we first walked around some workshops and discussed about the workshop from outside what we have seen. The next, we went into the workshop and explained our purpose and asked for the permission to do research there for our assignment.

However, there were 2 workshops that we have targeted the manager was not there and therefore we didn't get the permission to do so. One of the staff told us that last year some of the students from our school had done the similar project in their workshop, he asked us to come again to meet his manager it should be fine. So we planned to come again next week.