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Smart Power Strip, Dannie Alfaro
Smart Power Strip, Dannie Alfaro
Electrical Engineering
The Smart Power Strip revolutionizes all common power strips. Users have the ability to remotely toggle the individual outlets on the Smart Power Strip from a smart phone app and can also monitor how much energy the devices connected to the Smart Power Strip consume.
Dual Channel Matrix Switch Audio Receiver, Austin Fox
Dual Channel Matrix Switch Audio Receiver, Austin Fox
Electrical Engineering
The Dual Channel Matrix Switch Audio Receiver controls 2 separate audio output channels. Each channel plays any of the system's 3 inputs. This controller enables a user to play two separate audio signals through two separate speaker channels. The system design allows audio input from 2 RCA sources or 1 RCA source and a phono source. The system outputs an audio signal for each output simultaneously at up to 36W on each channel for an 8Ω load. The device allows a user to control the audio input and the volume of each output channel. An Arduino Uno R3 microcontroller interfaced …
Wireless Sensor Mesh Network For Irrigation Systems, Rosana Cheruvelil, Oswaldo Garcia, Nabil Haque, Justin Ignacio, Stanley Thomas
Wireless Sensor Mesh Network For Irrigation Systems, Rosana Cheruvelil, Oswaldo Garcia, Nabil Haque, Justin Ignacio, Stanley Thomas
Electrical Engineering
Pepper Oak Farms, a company that grows their own olives for olive oil and has approximately 40,000 olive trees, is in need of an efficient way to monitor the soil and atmospheric conditions that are critical to the cultivation of their trees. The company at the moment only has two sensors and has to manually place the sensors at different locations to collect data on soil moisture and temperature. This is expensive, time consuming, and a lot of effort on the owner’s part to go out on the fields to collect this data. As a solution, the company would like …
Smaller And More Efficient Ac To Dc Converter For Laptops, Jacob Dye
Smaller And More Efficient Ac To Dc Converter For Laptops, Jacob Dye
Electrical Engineering
The goal of this project is to create a laptop charger that does not have a big box converter. This will be better for the user because the big box converter always gets in the way. This will be accomplished by designing a cable that has several smaller components in it. Figure 1 shows a high level block diagram of how this design could look. The cable must still be able to handle all the power requirements of a laptop charger: to convert high voltage AC to the DC charging voltage. It must also be able to vary the current …
Drum Sense: Smart Drum Set, Azra Skeljo
Drum Sense: Smart Drum Set, Azra Skeljo
Electrical Engineering
I would like to propose a SMART drum set: a 5-piece acrylic LED drum set with 2 strips of adhesive RGB LEDs under each rim of every drum. Current SMART drum sets are very expensive and come as installable light rings that are attached on the outside of the drum instead of the inside. I have successfully prototyped 1 Floor Tom of the complete set. The LEDs are connected an AC to DC power converter via a six pin MIDI connector and Arduino. The drum set is characterized with a single RGB microcontroller, 5 sets of 150 LEDs, a piezoelectric …
An Iris Authentication System Based On Artificial Neural Networks, Brenden Velu
An Iris Authentication System Based On Artificial Neural Networks, Brenden Velu
Electrical Engineering
An iris authentication system verifies the authenticity of a person based on their iris features. The iris features are extracted through wavelet transform of the isolated iris from modified iris images. A level 5 wavelet decomposition is performed on the images, and the resulting low-frequency wavelet coefficients represent the inputs to the artificial neural network. The artificial neural network reads these features as inputs, and classifies each set of inputs according to their target identity. This authentication system currently classifies up to 10 people. The irises used for classification represent ideal situations with minimum eyelash and eyelid interference.
Enterprise Smart Outlet, David Faltmier, Matthew Mcgill, Luke Stencel
Enterprise Smart Outlet, David Faltmier, Matthew Mcgill, Luke Stencel
Electrical Engineering
The purpose of our senior project, Enterprise Smart Outlet, is to create an electrical outlet which will allow enterprise users to monitor and change their power consumption habits on a large scale. The initial goal of this project is to allow consumers to see their power consumption per outlet in real time, and then using that information conform their future habits to help them conserve electrical energy, and more importantly, money. Three requirements for our project to meet our initial goal are, the outlet will work in a standard electrical outlet and be completely compatible with current electrical standards, the …
Sel-311l Overreaching Impedance Pilot Protection Laboratory, Brandon Van Loon
Sel-311l Overreaching Impedance Pilot Protection Laboratory, Brandon Van Loon
Electrical Engineering
The objective of this senior project is to protect a three terminal transmission line during fault conditions using the SEL-311L microprocessor based relay and communication assisted permissive over-reaching transfer trip protection (POTT). The SEL-311L’s directional distance elements are programmed to trip on internal faults while faults external to the zones of protection are ignored. Upon sensing a fault condition, the relay issues a trip command to the local breaker and a permissive key for tripping to the remote relay via fiber optic communication. When a permissive key is received and all other permissive conditions have been satisfied, the remote relay …
Test Automation Program For 20-126, Stacia Kwong
Test Automation Program For 20-126, Stacia Kwong
Electrical Engineering
No abstract provided.
Wireless Led Motorcycle Jacket, Sean O'Brien
Wireless Led Motorcycle Jacket, Sean O'Brien
Electrical Engineering
In 2013 there were over 120,000 motorcycle fatalities in the U.S. alone, 73% of which were in the evening or during poor lighting conditions. Motorcyclists are at a disadvantage when it comes to their visibility on the road due to their size and location of lighting indicators. Because of this, motorcyclists are 82% more likely to be in an accident than other automobiles. One of the most common phrases among drivers involved in car vs motorcycle collisions is “I just didn’t see him."
Many products exist on the market to assist with visibility of motorcyclists including high-visibility clothing and gear …
Department Of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015, Dante C. Carrillo, Dion A. Celebrado, Jenna I. Denhaan, Christian F. Ferrer, Simon D. Hauser, Audrey L. Rempher, Joseph H. Rohrer, Casey S. Smith
Department Of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015, Dante C. Carrillo, Dion A. Celebrado, Jenna I. Denhaan, Christian F. Ferrer, Simon D. Hauser, Audrey L. Rempher, Joseph H. Rohrer, Casey S. Smith
Electrical Engineering
The goal of the Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Decathlon 2015 project is to design, build, and operate a zero-net energy solar-photovoltaic (solar-PV) powered residence. It is an international competition taking place in the fall of 2015 in Irvine, California. The design needs to be attractive, energy-efficient, innovative, and affordable. The Cal Poly team includes students from a variety of majors, including Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and many more. The different disciplines need to work together to create a functional and cohesive design. For our senior project, we have designed the electrical systems in the home, including the power, …
The Electric Reel For Soccer Fields, Stephen Taylor
The Electric Reel For Soccer Fields, Stephen Taylor
Electrical Engineering
Painting a soccer field consumes too much time. The process of reeling the string after laying out string along the field needs to improve. As a result, my project addresses improvements in how the workers retrieve the string through the production of an electric reel. This electric reel allows the worker to have control of the speed, direction, and on/off state of the device. Direction control allows the user ability to reel and unwind the string. Variable speed allows the user to control how fast the reel unwinds and reels the string. The device gathers string in an orderly manner …
Hydromodus: An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Alex Kost, Anu Mahinkanda, Jordan Read
Hydromodus: An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Alex Kost, Anu Mahinkanda, Jordan Read
Electrical Engineering
Hydromodus is a student-led multidisciplinary project conceived by Jordan Read designed to provide a low-cost modular hardware and software solution for researchers and scientists. For the scope of the Senior Project class, it is designed to be a baited remote underwater vehicle (BRUV), but the platform is highly modifiable and open-source.
Wd Data Aquisition Board, Charmaine Guintu
Wd Data Aquisition Board, Charmaine Guintu
Electrical Engineering
The Data Acquisition (DAQ) Board project is a continuation of a project that started last year. It is a project in collaboration with Western Digital. Western Digital (WD) Power LSI Systems Validation group has stress testing equipment called the Torture Stand. Inside the Torture Stand hard drives are compacted and tested until failure. However, the transient responses of voltage and current signals from the hard drives are currently obtained from oscilloscopes. The oscilloscopes are bulky and expensive, so to replace the oscilloscopes the DAQ was created. The small size and much cheaper cost of the DAQ allows Western Digital to …
Cal Poly Electrical Distribution Coordination And Short Circuit Analysis, Alexander Gomez, Kaylynn Rothleder
Cal Poly Electrical Distribution Coordination And Short Circuit Analysis, Alexander Gomez, Kaylynn Rothleder
Electrical Engineering
The purpose of this project is to maintain the California Polytechnic State University Electrical Distribution System by performing short circuit and protective device coordination studies for the Baker Science Building. When a short circuit arises in a system, there is no finite way in telling what protective device will be tripped, which can cause outages, arc flashes and electrical explosions. The best way in determining the outcomes of these occurrences are to perform precise simulated reports. To output these reports, design and analysis of the single line through a commercialized software, Power Tools for Windows (SKM) was used. To name …
Iocean Rgb Sensor, Mark Mcneff, Archit Mendiratta
Iocean Rgb Sensor, Mark Mcneff, Archit Mendiratta
Electrical Engineering
The goal of this project is to create an accurate ocean color sensor that will communicate effectively with an iPhone. The device will take ocean color measurements at its current location and provide these measurements to the user for scientific study of the variability of ocean color across the globe. The data gathered by the device will also provide ground-truthing of satellite ocean color measurements.
Nanogrid Electrical Design And Analysis, Phillip Phung
Nanogrid Electrical Design And Analysis, Phillip Phung
Electrical Engineering
Power plant generators have quality protection over long-range transmission, but localized generation interacts with multiple power sources, and needs maintenance to ensure grid safety. Localized and distributed generation must solve these issues to remain viable economically and efficiently in power industries. Cal Poly’s Building 20 provides on-campus location to interconnect renewable generation with interconnection disconnect capabilities.
Cal Poly’s grid includes three localized generators flowing through the Cal Poly substation. Unlike other universities which use power from utilities across distant transmission lines, Cal Poly generates energy using onsite generators. Research including additional possible sites of power generation helps determine the effects …
Large Dynamic Range Amplifier Plus Adc, Ted Hsueh
Large Dynamic Range Amplifier Plus Adc, Ted Hsueh
Electrical Engineering
Nerve and muscle signal sampling proves difficult because of the large difference in magnitudes. Muscle signals loom a hundred or even a thousand times bigger and can hide the nerve signals. The Large Dynamic Range Amplifier plus Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) allows one device to retrieve both muscle and nerve signal information. The device has two parts: the ability to take high-resolution data from tenths of microvolts to several millivolts and filter out environmental noise, such as 60 Hz of electrical power lines or electro galvanic signals. This gives the ability to read muscle and nerve signals using one …
Boost Battery, Samuel Rauch, Alvin Ng, Lacy Sigman
Boost Battery, Samuel Rauch, Alvin Ng, Lacy Sigman
Electrical Engineering
In modern times, the problem of a depleted battery confronts us too often. Whether it appears with a smartphone or with any other electronic device, the situation frustrates all consumers. This project designs and constructs a compact portable battery charger that charges through kinetic energy. Thus, one can perform everyday activities, such as walking or running, and charge up a backup battery with no extra effort or time. Additionally, an attachable band harvests thermal energy to maximize the amount of clean power generated. Energy harvesting from kinetic motion and thermal differences provide users with power when no actual power suppliers …
Lightweight Silver Ink Printed Circular Ring Microstrip Patch Antenna For Wlan Applications, Bobak Beheshti
Lightweight Silver Ink Printed Circular Ring Microstrip Patch Antenna For Wlan Applications, Bobak Beheshti
Electrical Engineering
No abstract provided.