CSSE-481: Internet of Things: Project Proposal Phase
Objectives
The term project will consist of developing an innovative application
for the IoT.
The project proposal phase consists of a three to four week process
in which you will develop an idea for an application, research it,
obtain feedback from your classmates and present your proposal to the
class.
The proposal phase is designed to learn and practive ways in which
people creatively think about developing a cutting edge application,
how to obtain fail-fast feedback/validation of an idea and how to
research details of a proposal.
Overview
For each of the following assignments, please submit your work to the
appropriate drop-box on Moodle.
Assignment Specs
The purpose of the review and presentations of various IoT projects is to study the
current state of the art of IoT. For a presentation, please lead
the discussion of the materials (video, sildes of paper). For a
review, please submit a write-up highlighting
key features of the app assigned for your review. Please also capture
any unusual or interesting features. When studying an app, attempt to
answer the following question: "What about this app or domain makes it
a good or interesting IoT app?"
Based on the apps we have seen, a web survey, but primarily on your
own thinking, develop an idea or two for a good IoT
application. Submit a brief write-up to the appropriate drop-box on
Moodle. We will discuss each idea in class for the purpose of
improvement. Please do not worry about whether app can be developed in
one term, we will eventually carve out a good demo project.
Based on feedback through the class discussion of your app idea,
further thinking and research of existing, similar
apps, revise your idea or produce a new one. Submit a
write-up of your revised app idea to the appropriate drop-box on
Moodle. We will discuss your revised idea in class for
the purpose of continued improvement and possible group formation.
For the project proposal, submit a write-up. Below are the specs:
- About two pages long (single spaced).
- A very good title (can be catchy)
- An introduction. It consists of a narrative description of the
problem you wish to address, an explanation of why it is an
interesting problem, a detailed description of existing work on this
problem, an explanation of how your work would extend current work,
how it is novel, and what you would expect people to learn from your
work. As part of the summary of prior work, you want to carefully
research prior work. Use the web as well as other sources and ensure
that you properly cite your scources and place sources in the
references section. The majority of the work will go into researching
prior work.
- References
For the proposal presentation:
- Please use slides.
- Let's plan to spend about 7 minutes for the presentation, as such,
it has to be fairly concise.