Speakers: Kin Sze (Project OS-ARIS), Alfredo Herrera (Open Source Licenses), Sawsan Abdul Majid (Student Competition), Sean Campeau (Project Management)

Date/Time: IEEE Day, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:00 to 9:00 pm

Location: University of Ottawa, SITE Bldg. (Room TBA – please email Kin Sze)

Parking: Parking garage (paid), and street parking (free after 5:30 pm)

Registration: Required, please send an email to receive venue info.

Coffee and donuts will also be served.

Organizer: Kin Sze, Sean Campeau

Organized by: IEEE HIC Ottawa SIGHT Affinity Group (an IEEE Ottawa Section group focussed on humanitarian initiatives)

Abstract:

  1. What is OS-ARIS (Open Source Avalanche Rescue Imaging System)? It is an IEEE Ottawa Section humanitarian technology initiative, in which its primary objective is to improve and adapt an open-source,low-cost, radar imaging system for snow avalanche search and rescue operations. The design is freely available from the MIT Open Course Ware Program under the popular Creative Commons licensing.
  2. Past and current progress of the project will be presented.
  3. Information on the humanitarian technology student design challenge/competition 2014/2015 will be presented.
  4. Student design challenge/competition – i.e. to design add-on modules for the MIT radar prototype:
  • A DAQ for triggering the radar and storing the data
  • An IMU module for measuring and data logging the instantaneous physical position and orientation of the radar while it traverses along a suspended zip-line
  • A very low-cost and efficient wideband Tx/Rx directive antenna pair to replace the Cantennas in the radar prototype.