CB00881 Smart Cities

Today we had a meeting with the Alberta team, finally meeting them face to face. Virtually, at least. There, people from the city of Alberta gave a slight overview over what they require, giving us the following conception: - A web-based system through which people can contribute with geographical locations they think worth visiting, as well as walks that take them through certain locations. - A mobile client for guiding the user through people-generated walks. - The mobile application should work with and without internet connections. - Users should be able to create an account. - Users can have favorite walks. - There should be a Completed Walks section and a Certified Walks section. Connection and audio issues prevented us from hearing the whole thing in the meeting, but we did get a better idea of the project as a whole. We will be receiving further information about the project through a summary of the meeting provided by the students of Alberta. In the meantime,

Sooo this week, as "team lead" for our Mexico team (working with one of the Alberta teams), I reached out to Warren Thomas (team lead in Alberta) and we both introduced ourselves and spoke a bit. He seems like a very nice guy. And as slow as things might seem right now, I think we're still on track for what comes next. That being, whatever that exactly is that we'll find out on our meeting with the clients in Alberta that actually require this product. From our end, and as has also been mentioned in our team post this week, we have continued researching on the technologies and strategies with which the project seems to be planned so far. Yes, this post is technically required to be one page long, but... this is all I got for you right now. Really. So, I'm not going to write more mumbo-jumbo only to stick to that requirement. I don't want to waste your time reading more than you should. Except... I just did. And continue to do so, if you're reading th

This week we continued with our planning (or rather, understanding) of the project. We went a little back and forth through email with the Alberta team, and agreed on meeting this coming Monday through Google Meet. We also continued digging about what the current landscape looks like for a project like this, what its prospects could be. Our internal communication as Mexico team has continued going well, despite not really knowing yet exactly what the real-world clients in Alberta will want in the end. image obtained from http://allisonwiese.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/So-What-Are-We-Going-To-Do.jpg

This week we plan to continue researching about similar projects to what “Yeg AR” aims for, to get a better understanding of what existing products are out there already. Using the document that explains what the project is about, we identified some technologies that are proposed to be used in the project. We will research the technologies as well as how to implement them with AR. It would be great if we find sometime for us to actually chat with the students from Alberta, to agree on the requirements, specifications, tools to be used and how we’ll distribute the work. From what we’ve read in the project description, details aren’t so clear. So we’ll write down concrete questions we would like to ask them. All our team posts will be published with the teampost tag, immediately available through https://martellsmartcities.blogspot.com/search/label/teampost We created a repository for the project but depending on how we organize with the alberta team we might create a

This semester we decided to work as a team of 3, joining some other students from the University of Alberta, Canada. We've been told their Computer Science department is very similar to ours, so it should be a cool experience for us all. Also, the project they choose is aimed for real, Canadian clients. Yet another thing added to our cross-national  endeavor. From what we've heard, the most likely projects to be selected are Walk-and-Talk or Yeg AR. Out of the two options Yeg AR seems like a more interesting proyect for the set of skills we share. We have some experience developing android applications with java, but we’re open to learn other tools like the ones stated in the document (ArcGIS and react). Our main tool of communication amongst us is telegram, and the use of discord with alberta until we are assigned a team and we can decide what tool suits the whole team. image obteined from https://www.active.com/Assets/Running/460/running-getting-faster.jpg