February 6th - Technical Adjustments

Team members involved: Michael Del Fante, Eric Oltean, Jonathan Wai, Micheal Seng

After we compared our sketch mock ups, it became apparent to us that we didn't know exactly what types of data the refrigerator hardware could detect. We all had different ideas about what features we could include in the final design (such as monitoring efficiency, voltage, etc.), but we didn't know if the hardware would limit these features from being possibilities. Through Eric, we asked Paul what data the hardware could and could not detect. Paul explained to us that at this time the hardware could only monitor the internal temperature, external temperature, and whether the door was opened or not. Now that we knew the hardware limitations, we compiled a list of features that we want to implement for the detail view of the dashboard. These features are described below:

1. Overall status - Shows the current overall state of the refrigerator (on a green, yellow, red scale)
2. Current internal temperature
3. Current external temperature
4. Door opened/closed
5. Graph of temperatures over time - For observing trends
6. Graph of how long door is opened/closed - For observing trends
7. Phone/email notifications - Notifies whoever is responsible for that refrigerator if status changes to red
8. Emergency contact - Each refrigerator has some kind of information about who to contact if they notice anything strange happening
9. Notification bar - If there's something wrong with a refrigerator, a notification bar will appear at the top to display the problem

At this time, we do not know all of the details about how we want to implement these features. But this exercise was necessary for this project because it was very helpful for narrowing down both what capabilities the hardware has and what features are in the scope of this project.