Wireless Data Acquisition System (WiDAS) Justin Peters Advisor:

Wireless Data Acquisition System (WiDAS) Justin Peters Advisor: Professor Steven Gutschlag Senior Design Project

Outline - Project Goals Background Information System Parts (4) Software Flowchart Preliminary Schedule Questions

Project Goals - Intake data from various sensors with the MCU (Velocity, Engine Speed, Acceleration, ect.) - Implement wireless data communication between MCU and WinWedge - Design GUI for Excel software - Implement a GUI with the LCD

Background - Important for mechanical engineers - Few, if any, legacy components are being used

Overall System Block Diagram

System Parts - Microcontroller SiLabs 8051F120DK

System Parts – LCD Touchscreen Amulet Color Touchscreen LCD

System Parts – Wireless Devices FIFO, MSK, 433 MHz, 250 kBaud 1% Packet Error per packet of 20 bytes

System Parts – WinWedge

Software High-Level Flow Chart

Completed Work - Finished wireless boards - Finished most of MCU data intake and communication methods

Current Work - Researching LCD touchscreen - Researching WinWedge software

Preliminary Schedule Lab week Date Task Break Break Amulet Programming. C programming. Winwedge Integration/Design. 1 1/28 Finish Winwedge Integration/Design. 2 2/4 Finish Winwedge Integration/Design. 3 2/11 Finish Winwedge Integration/Design. 4 2/18 Finish Amulet Programming. 5 2/25 Finish Amulet Programming. 6 3/4 Finish Amulet Programming. 7 3/11 Use waveform generators to simulate external data intake 8 3/18 Use waveform generators to simulate external data intake 9 3/25 Finish C coding 10 4/1 Finish C coding 11 4/8 Finish C coding 12 4/15 Test/Troubleshoot entire project. 13 4/22 Test/Troubleshoot entire project.

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