ECE 495M - Projects Fall 2002

In order to better match students in ECE 495M with projects that are of interest to them, we are providing this document, which contains a brief description of the projects that are currently envisioned for Fall 2002 with the Faculty member in charge of each project. If you have received notice that you are accepted for enrollment in ECE 495M, it will help us to set up the teams if you contact the professors in charge of one or more of these projects to discuss your specific interests and skills with them. You can find their contact information at
http://shay.ecn.purdue.edu/~mobility/contact_info

Some of the projects are related to projects developed during the Spring 2002 semester. For more information on these projects, please refer to the "Projects & Teams" section.

Please note that it is not necessary that you contact a faculty member to be registered in ECE 495M. If you choose not to contact any faculty members, you will be assigned to a project based solely on the information in your application. Also, even if you do contact faculty members, we cannot guarantee that you will be able to join a particular project of your choosing, since we must balance the size of the teams. Finally, these projects are subject to change; and new projects may be added between now and the start of the Fall 2002 semester. If you have questions about this process (as opposed to specific questions about a particular project), please contact Prof. Jan Allebach at allebach@ecn.purdue.edu.




Professor George Chiu, and Professor Jan Allebach

"E-Services for printer management"

Project description:
The project will develop Java based tools that utilize the ChaiVM in the networked HP printers to form a distributed printer-based printing resource identification and customization environment for mobile and networked devices.

Notes:
The project begins in Fall 2002.
In the Spring 2002, the project included the development of a ChaiService to acquire real-time printer status information. For more details, please visit the mobility website.


Professor Edward Delp

"Multimedia Applications: Imaging, Video, and Security"

Project description:
Projects for Fall 2002 include JPEG2000, watermarking for content authentication, video compression and streaming, cryptography, and multimedia security.

Notes:
The project begins in Fall 2002.
In the Spring 2002, the projects consisted of two applications for implementation on the Jornada: the JPEG image compression standard and image watermarking for security. For more details, please visit the mobility website.


Professor James Krogmeier

"Real-Time DSP Programming for Baseband Receivers"

Project description:
The project will involve the use of fixed point DSPs for realization of baseband physical layer wireless communications algorithms. Projects may involve receivers for digital radio broadcast or for constant envelope modulations as are used in GSM and Bluetooth.

Notes:
The project begins in Fall 2002.


Professor Catherine Rosenberg

"Wireless Networking and Applications"

Project description:
Projects for Fall 2002 include wireless networking, network applications, web-services, etc. All that in the context of building a "cool campus" environment, i.e., services for "My Purdue" (the community of interest formed by the students, staff, and faculty at Purdue).

Examples of applications would be the projects developed during Spring 2002 by the "Wireless Application Development" team and the "Computer Science International Design Competition (CSIDC)" team. Please visit the mobility website for more details.

Notes:
The project begins in Fall 2002.


Professor Lynne Slivovsky

"Global Positioning System - Device for the Visually Impaired"

Project description:
The goal of this project is to design and develop a portable GPS device that enables members of the Purdue community who are visually impaired to navigate on campus by use of the Global Positioning System.

Notes:
The "GPS-DVI" project started in Spring 2002. For more details, please visit the mobility website.


Professor Jan Allebach

"A mobile communications solution for assertive community treatment teams"

Project description:
One person out of every 100 experiences a serious mental illness, such as major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or obsessive-compulsive disorder. Chances are that you know someone, or even have a family member who has experienced mental illness. In greater Lafayette, a program is being developed for assertive community treatment of the most seriously mentally ill individuals in our community. These individuals live in a variety of situations, including their own apartments, group homes, or with their families. Their daily lives consist of the same kinds of activities in which we are all involved: work, school, buying groceries, paying bills, etc; but because their brains do not function normally, they need on-going assistance. They also need aggressive medical treatment to manage their illness as effectively as possible.

Assertive Community treatment is a new model in which a group of 10 care providers, typically consisting of one psychiatrist, two RNs, one employment specialist, a substance abuse specialist, an office manager/statistician, three case managers, and a team leader care for approximately 100 mentally ill clients. Assertive community treatment is an evidence-based practice that has been shown to yield much better outcomes than traditional treatment models.

What does this all have to do with mobility? A lot! As the 10 members of the treatment team work throughout each day with their 100 clients, they must be in constant communication with each other, be able to access information about the client's treatment history, and be able to add new information to the database from which the team works. The team does not work in a single location, as is the case with traditional medical care. Instead the team is dispersed. They are out in the community working directly with their clients, helping them in a variety of ways throughout the day.

The goal of this project is to develop a mobile communications solution that will effectively enable team members to stay in touch with each other, and access client data. This solution will likely be based on a combination of cell phone and PDA technologies, with a remote server for the database. Although assertive community treatment teams elsewhere are starting to use PDA technologies, to our knowledge no one is using wireless technologies to integrate data recording and access, with communications, in a mobile environment.

Notes:
The project begins in Fall 2002.