cbradley
In Green Tech class on Friday, we made three very big steps. First, Bill showed us a chord called 24U. This chord would give us more control over the phidgets program. The second thing Bill showed us was filemaker. Filemaker is a program is a database software. By using this program, we can collect and record all of the data the RFID reader picks up and all of the information will be put on an webpage. If we wanted to go into another project, we could also use filemaker to make a new class list of the students at HPA. We could link the class list the RFID security system. After Bill explained filemaker to us, he gave us a simpler version called BENTO to mess around with. While we were installing BENTO to our laptops, we allowed Lucas' computer to control the phidgets board while it was plugged in to my computer. To do this, we created a ServerID for my computer. Now, when Lucas, or anyone, goes to bookmarks, show all bookmarks, and then from there, goes to bonjour, they can control things that I'm doing on my computer.
Deliverables:
RFID: This project will hopefully continues past the energy lab to the point where HPA is using RFID as a security system. On a smaller scale, we hope that we can soon identify everyone that enters the energy lab. Right now, we are working on linking RFID with filemaker so we can record everyone that was in the building and how long they were there. Eventually, when we know how to do so, we plan to make it a part of the security system by using the kit as locks and keys, but we are not at that level yet. We could replace all of the locks on the dorms and class rooms with these RFID readers and all of the keys with the tags. We could also have a camera by some, if not all, of the readers to ensure that no one had stolen the tag. We were also talking about using this RFID as a main gate at the entrance in front of the school.
State xml: This project is just learning about the system that controls the Energy Lab. By learning about this, Lucas, Awe and I will serve as the student guru's of the system. We will be able to see if something is wrong, like a leak, or we can just be leaders to other student who are interested in learning about the system.
Tonight, I played installed the BENTO application on my computer, watched the tutorial, and played around with it a little. This picture on the right is a screen shot I took of the BENTO application running on my computer. I took the RFID kit to my dorm this weekend to figure out how to link it to this application. I almost got it through sharing and I think I'll get it by tomorrow when I play around with it more.
LINKS:
filemaker: http://www.filemaker.com/
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