On past June 23 inside this PiIoT challenge project I have tried a new (and experimental) way for project updates: planned live events shared Twitter with Periscope. After some few troubles on the settings, the first three minutes of this event was lost, then things worked almost well; remain some problem of a bit degraded quality that will be solved easier. In the future other live vents will be scheduled sharing the most important phases and moments of the project and will be published as events in this Element14 section.
I should thank Jan Cumps and fvan for the support and helpful hints on twitter. Below the link of the recorded live event.
https://www.periscope.tv/w/1BRJjjRXkpdJw
The activity fork point
The PiIoT perfect reading place is currently based on a different approach than I have done before, with previous projects; Two parallel rails who will meet before the end of the job: a dynamic, in-motion project design by one side and the electronics hardware and software IoT modules creation by the other.
Dynamic architecture model
The project architecture involves spaces and subjects interaction, visually-impaired and not. The design is a model - based on a series of non invasive interventions - formalised together with the helpful support of the MuZIEum team. This is a very interesting phase, involving bidirectional knowledge-transfer, learning and discussion aiming to find together the better use of the IoT modular solutions I will provide creating a smart place model reacting to the subjects interaction. This kind of empowered environment will follow different paths depending on the kind of subject. We mostly focus our attention the visually-impaired subjects and non-impaired but the same model can be applied for example to adults and child and in general to different classes of subjects that for some reason approach the same environment in a totally different way.
Modular hardware implementation
Based on the general line-guides of the project and the primary goal of creating a smart environment self-reading to support visually-impaired subjects - the IoT components and other added further will be structured creating a series of IoT modules easy to assemble and easy to install and replace. Accordingly with the design model and the physical site the IoT modular system will be set and connected in a subnetwork using the already available WiFi connection to access the Internet where needed.
Thus we will alternate design blog posts following the proceedings of the environment model design for the pilot PiIoT modules installation and tech blog posts dedicated to the components features, testing, source code etc.