Increased bus stop safety project

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Increasing Bus Stop Safety

• Tyler Payne
• 3-3-10
• Riverview High School

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Criterion G

• There was no present safety system in use.
• Creating a less than ample safety situation.
• Health and Legal social issues.

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G Continued

• This made this an ideal product to develop.
• Surveys were used to solidify there was a
  problem.
• Giancarlo Alvarado, a fellow student was
  found,along with other students and people that
  shared the problem.
• He became my end-user.

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Criterion H

• One way was to use window motion sensors to
  detect the bus as it moves by.
• Another way considered was using weight sensors
  as the bus approached.
• The best solution was the window sensors because
  of cost effectiveness.

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• Model of design

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Criterion I

• Three detectors
• Onto building or pole
• Strip on bus
• Sound emits
• Webcam hears sound
• Via Skype sends that to the stop

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I Continued

• I started with basic window motion detectors.
• I used this design as my alpha product.

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I Continued

• The product needed more, for beta I added a
  laptop, with web cam, that would be on the bus
  and send notification to the stop via Skype.

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I Continued

• For the Final product I altered sound levels
  using a tape covering over each speaker.

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Criterion J

• Alpha testers- Daniel Hogan and Giancarlo
  Alvarado
• Beta tester- Daniel Grochowski
• Final tester- Giancarlo Alvarado

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Alpha Feedback

• Needs to be more dynamic.
• Add some type of sound altering
• Add a visual alert
• Good design
• Good idea
• Effective

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Beta Feedback

• Great Product
• Very Effectively notifies
• Good Alert timing
• Great designing
• Could use visual

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Final Feedback

• Great Design
• Very Effective
• The altering sounds are great
• Everything is good, but wish you could have done
  the visual.

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Criterion K

• My product successfully was able to improve the
  present health problems.
• I think with funding this could be broad scale
  and extremely helpful nationally, and it has lots
  of room for improvement to the overall design.

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K Continued

• The product was a success to my end-user
• And it was also a great success to my testers.

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Future Implications

• I believe that my product with funding could
  become a key to enhanced safety in urban
  environments. There is a ton of potential for
  this to become a great element of safety
  everywhere.

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Sources links

• http//www.lowes.com/
• http//www.homedepot.com/
• http//www.wal-mart.com/

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Quizzola

• 1) What is the purpose of the product?
• 2) What were the intended use for the sensor I
  used?
• 3) Was there a safety system already in use?
• 4) What was the other method that was considered?
• 5) What was added into the beta model?
• 6)What do the detectors attach to?
• 7) What is the web-cam used for?
• 8) Where is the strip attached?
• 9) What did my testers all think the product
  needed?
• 10)Was the product effective?

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The End

• I was happy with the success of my final product.