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Date: November 11, 2010

Time: 6:30 PM –  9:30PM

Place:  Stefani Building, Room: S – 123 @ UPR Mayagüez Campus

In this meeting we continued with the development of the progress report. Each team member worked on their assigned tasks individually. After completing a part, the member posted it in Google Wave so that other members could verify it.

Team Members Present at the Meeting:

Emmanuel Sánchez
Juan M. Ortiz
Leonardo Colón

Date: November 10, 2010

Time: 6:30 PM –  9:30PM

Place:  Stefani Building, Room: S – 123 @ UPR Mayagüez Campus

The tasks for the progress report were divided and work towards the completion of it were started. Some pictures of the different modules were taken to include them in the progress report. Design of the website was continued.

Team Members Present at the Meeting:

Emmanuel Sánchez
Juan M. Ortiz
Leonardo Colón

Date: November 9, 2010

Time: 6:00 PM –  9:00PM

Place:  Stefani Building, Room: S – 123 @ UPR Mayagüez Campus

We assembled the GPS/3G Modem and MSP430F1611 microcontroller in a bread board along with the voltage regulator to test them individually. The development of the product’s webpage was also continued.

Team Members Present at the Meeting:

Emmanuel Sánchez
Juan M. Ortiz
Leonardo Colón

Date: November 4, 2010

Time: 7:00 PM –  10:00PM

Place:  Stefani Building, Room: S – 123 @ UPR Mayagüez Campus

We continued development of the microcontroller code and started the product’s webpage implementation. We will continue working on these areas of our project for the next couple of meetings.

Team Members Present at the Meeting:

Emmanuel Sánchez
Juan M. Ortiz
Leonardo Colón

Date: November 3, 2010

Time: 6:30 PM –  9:30PM

Place:  Stefani Building, Room: S – 123 @ UPR Mayagüez Campus

We started planning for the code development for the microcontroller. A divide and conquer strategy was devised for this task. The plan is to divide into different functions each and every one of the tasks that the microcontroller has to realize.

Team Members Present at the Meeting:

Emmanuel Sánchez
Juan M. Ortiz
Leonardo Colón

Date: November 2, 2010

Time: 6:00 PM –  8:00PM

Place:  Stefani Building, Room: S – 123 @ UPR Mayagüez Campus

The class diagrams for the database were developed. The system’s power circuit was constructed from the design.

Team Members Present at the Meeting:

Emmanuel Sánchez
Juan M. Ortiz
Leonardo Colón

Date: October 31, 2010

Time: 6:00 PM –  10:00PM

Place:  Stefani Building, Room: S – 123 @ UPR Mayagüez Campus

We prepared the required documentation and presentation for the first happy hour. Final details for unfinished parts were finalized.

Team Members Present at the Meeting:

Emmanuel Sánchez
Juan M. Ortiz
Leonardo Colón

Date: October 28, 2010

Time: 5:00 PM –  9:00PM

Place:  Stefani Building, Room: S – 123 @ UPR Mayagüez Campus

The database development was continued using LAMP. The database setup was completed using the entity-relationship (ER) diagram. Also, development of the user interfaces for the product’s web page was begun.

Team Members Present at the Meeting:

Emmanuel Sánchez
Juan M. Ortiz
Leonardo Colón

Date: October 27, 2010

Time: 3:00 PM –  8:00PM

Place:  Stefani Building, Room: S – 123 @ UPR Mayagüez Campus

The database design and development was continued. Further considerations for the power circuit’s design were taken into consideration. Soldering of GPS/GSM module with board was done.

Team Members Present at the Meeting:

Emmanuel Sánchez
Juan M. Ortiz
Leonardo Colón

Date: October 26, 2010

Time: 5:00 PM –  8:00PM

Place:  Stefani Building, Room: S – 123 @ UPR Mayagüez Campus

Considerations for the design of the power circuit were taken. Hosting services were obtained from the university and the design and development of the database was started.

Team Members Present at the Meeting:

Emmanuel Sánchez
Juan M. Ortiz
Leonardo Colón