I’ve recently completed an Honours Degree in Software Development and as part of this I spent a few months off and on working on a proof of concept tracking system utilising Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) in order to track small asset tags. I believe this system could quite easily be scaled up to an industrial scale with further work but don’t personally plan to follow this up in the near future due to working on other projects. As such I figured I’d release a lot of what I have and hopefully it can help somebody else.

If you do something cool with this then please get in touch, otherwise do with it all as you wish.

This post is one of eight scheduled to be released over the next few weeks, all posts in this series may be found by selecting the tag below.

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The table below lists the overall tasks defined as part of this project; some tasks below were started before the defined start date where possible, all tasks were completed before the defined end date.

I questioned whether to post this as part of this series but perhaps seeing a rough overview of how an Honours Projects needs to be scheduled may prove useful to somebody.

TASK	PROGRESS	START	END
CM4700 – Honours Project Requirements
Project Proposal & Ethics	100%	01/09/2020	06/12/2020
Literature Review – Formative	100%	07/12/2020	28/02/2021
Litrature Review – Submission	100%	28/02/2021	16/05/2021
Requirements Analysis	100%	01/01/2021	30/05/2021
Poster & Demo	100%	01/01/2021	28/06/2021
Final Report	100%	01/01/2021	04/07/2021
Project Tasks
Define Requirements	100%	21/12/2020	27/12/2020
Locate Alternatives	100%	28/12/2020	03/01/2021
Research trilateration	100%	04/01/2021	10/01/2021
Compare alternative solutions	100%	11/01/2021	17/01/2021
Infrastructure Diagram	100%	18/01/2021	25/01/2021
Identify Physical Hardware	100%	26/01/2021	01/02/2021
Identify Data Processing on hardware	100%	02/02/2021	08/02/2021
Research how to connect devices	100%	09/02/2021	15/02/2021
Purchase required hardware	100%	16/02/2021	22/02/2021
Set up development environment	100%	23/02/2021	01/03/2021
Set up BLE Tags	100%	02/03/2021	09/03/2021
Create firmware for Bluetooth device	100%	10/03/2021	16/03/2021
Create firmware for WiFi device	100%	17/03/2021	23/03/2021
Connect devices	100%	24/03/2021	30/03/2021
Verify Data passthrough from BLE to Raspberry	100%	31/03/2021	06/04/2021
Create Raspberry server software	100%	07/04/2021	13/04/2021
Create Raspberry dashboard	100%	14/04/2021	20/04/2021
Evaluate project	100%	21/04/2021	27/04/2021