FYP1 : Week 14

Finding specification of the required components

Objective : To find components specification

Activity : This is part of methodology chapter. I need to find components specification by finding their datasheet and compare which model is more suitable for this project. There are for main components that required in this project are accelerometer, optical photoplethysmogram (PPG) sensor, Adruino UNO and GSM. For accelerometer, ADXL345 was chosen compared to ADXL33 has inbuilt functions such as free fall detection activity. Then GSM module SIM900A 

was chosen compared to SIM900 as this project only will use simple function of GSM which is to send alert SMS.

Accelerometer ADXL345 datasheet

PPG sensor BH1792GLC datasheet

GSM SIM900A datasheet

Arduino UNO datasheet

Conclusion : The list of required components are Arduino UNO, accelerometer ADXL345, PPG BH1792GLC and GSM SIM900A was chosen.

FYP1 : Week 13

Presentation day

Objective : To do presentation of project proposal for FYP

Activity : 

Today I had accomplish presented my FYP1 presentation as it is 30% from my FYP assessment. The presentation was held at Dewan Gemilang, UniKL BMI. I was totally nervous while waiting for my turn to be assess.

There were 2 assessors that had assessed me. Picture below was taken while I waiting for my turn to be assess by those two lecturers.

Alhamdulillah everything is smooth during the presentation. I managed to counter back every question that had been asked from the assessor. I also take voice record of during the presentation as to record any suggested improvement idea from them. Here I attached link of my slideshow that I had uploaded at slideshare.net.

NurulHidayahGhazali FYP1 Slideshow

FYP1 : Week 12

Final FYP1 briefing

Objective : 

• To get the proper requirements on presentation slides
• To learn on defending the project during presentation day

Activity : For today briefing was given by Di.Imran and my supervisor, Dr.Wangi. The presentation slideshow need to have project background, problem statement, objectives, scope and limitation, methodology, operational flowchart, block diagram, preliminary results and conclusion. The presentation will explained overall of this project proposal. Both of this briefing speaker give tips and trick to handle questions from assessor and to defend the project.

Conclusion : This briefing had made me become more confident to present for next week as the tips given. The slideshow presentation need to be settle up as soon as possible.

FYP 1 : Week 11

Writing literature review

Objective : To finish up literature review chapter

Activity : From a quite large number of previous projects I had downloaded from IEEE and had read, I had decided to choose these 3 research that using different way of device interface. Shown below is the table that I had summarized from all this 3 projects.

Project	Features	Advantages	Drawbacks
1. Dynamic Background Subtraction for Fall Detection System using a 2D Camera By: Steven, Yueng & Miguel	2D camera	The camera always alert of every movement.	Only certain area covered.
2. Home Fall Detection System for the Elderly By: Joseph Santiago, Eric Cotto, & friends	Bluetooth Accelerometer Gyroscope	Only send alert when both condition of accelerometer and gyroscope agree.	Range limit of the device and phone because of Bluetooth range limit.
3. Elderly Safety Early-warning System Based on Android Mobile Phones By: Yi-Nan Zhang, Hong-Yun Ning, Jie Bai	Smartphone Android application	Use build-in accelerometer in the mobile phone.	Victim needs to click on screen for confirmation to cancel or send alert after fell.

Conclusion : As the literature review is done, I can  take the drawbacks of thise previous project as my project motivation. Then I can proceed with chapter 3 which is methodology.

FYP1 : Week 10

Workshop on writing report for chapter 3, 4 and abstract

Objective : To learn on how to write chapter 3,4 and abstract properly

Activity : The workshop was held at TTL2, Unikl BMI and the speaker is Dr.Imran. For today Dr Imran had explained that chapter 3 of proposal report which is methodology should have flowchart, block diagram,Gantt chart and few more. For chapter 4 which is results and discussion, results from simulation can be insert. Abstract should be write after finished writing all chapters as it is a short synopsis that conclude from all chapters. Besides, Dr.Imran also explained about project presentation requirement. The presentation should be short and sweet which expected for 15 minutes with maximum 15 powerpoint slides.

Conclusion : From this second workshop, I can see clearer about overall proposal report and presentation day. I should get myself ready to work harder from this onward to write report.

FYP1 : Week 9

IEEE Online Database Training

Objective :  To learn the correct and most efficient way to find database from IEEE website

Activity : 

This training held at Saniah Reduan Learning Hub  (Library) and the trainer is Mr. Edward Kennedy from United Technology. This training is how to getting started for searching on IEEE website which is www.ieee.org/ieeexplore . In this website there are few types of search for paperworks. For example, Journal category is the proved research which had finish the project while Standard is theory to prove journal is correct.

How to refine search on IEEE?

To search a sentence keyword is you need to add " at the start and end of the sentence. For example to search fall detection is "fall detection". If type fall detection without "" it will search for two different word which is fall AND detection.

Click Advance search option under search box, 

then it will show advance search options which you can type any keywords and u can set either between the keyword you want the it to be AND (it will have both keyword) , OR (if there have any one of the keyword) and NOT (it will not show that have not keyword).

Conclusion : I had learnt the right way to find research paperworks on IEEE with more precisely. So, I can starts with writing chapter literature review.

FYP1 : Week 8

Finding articles for literature review

Objective : To find article that can be revised as literature review

Activity : As we know, literature review is a review of previous projects. So, I had searched on IEEE website to find some of project that have same scope as my project. Basically IEEE is a website that provide research and paperworks of anything regarding electric and electronic. This website had to paid if want to download the paperwork. Fortunately, Unikl provided student access for IEEE for its students.

Few previous project that i've got from IEEE and even from Google Scholar such listed below :

• Wearable safety wristband device for elderly health monitoring with fall detect and heart attack alarm
• Elderly safety early-warning system based on android mobile phones
• Smart unit care for pre fall detection and prevention

Conclusion : I had found few useful paperworks of previous project that I can review and find the advantages and drawbacks of its project.