Better Diagnostic Tools for Restless Legs Syndrome
Capstone Project: Smartphone-Based Electromyography System for Screening Restless Leg Syndrome in Children Clients: Dr. Osman Ipsiroglu, Pediatrician and Clinical Associate Professor and Mr. Graham McAllister, Clincial Research Trainee, Sunny Hill Health Center for Children, BC Children’s Hospital Student Team: Brittaney Geisler, Tyler MacDonald, Caleb Ng, Tina Saad Professor: Cristian Grecu Imagine you couldn’t resist twitching, rubbing or flexing […]
Extending the Reach of UBC’s Laptop Orchestra
Capstone Project: Remote Image Manipulation Client: Bob Pritchard and Keith Hamel, UBC Laptop Orchestra Student Team: Adam Berg, David Hu, Mike Jensen, Justin Siu Professor: Sid Fels Have you ever gone to an electronic music performance to watch a musician’s transfixed, blue-lit face, hunched over a laptop, one or two knob twiddles the only signs […]
Repairing Canada’s Aging Bridges
Capstone Project: Automated Bridge Image Analysis Using Drone Quadcopter Technology Client: Gamal Mustapha, VP Program Management, SMT Research Ltd. Student Team: Shawn Yuan, Micah Leuba, Michael Li, Gregory Lee, Nico Simon Professor: Paul Lusina Maintaining public infrastructure is essential and unfortunately, costly. Canada invests billions of dollars a year to repair, upgrade and expand its highways, water […]
Getting Power to the Internet of Things
Capstone Project: Power over Ethernet Controller Clients: Professor Edmond Cretu, UBCNathan Wiens, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems Inc. Student Team: Yaodong (Tom) Yu, Ruibing Zhao, Yuqian (Peter) Zhang, Yuan Liu, Zhen (William) Hong Professor: Paul Lusina Normally, electronics come with lots of wires. Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) technology delivers both power and data communication over a single Ethernet […]
Adding a Sixth Sense: Air Quality
Capstone Project: Eco-tracking GIS software Client: Kevin Hart, CEO, Tzoa Wearables Student Team: Erin Bush, Abraham Chan, Chun Kiet Leong, Rex Yeung Professor: Terry Lee TZOA is a wearable environment tracker able to measure a number of variables affecting the quality of our surroundings such as, air pollution, UV, humidity and many more. Soon to be launched by a […]
Accelerating Rapid Damage Assessment
Capstone Project: Real-time Building Damage Assessment Clients: Steven Bibby, Senior Manager, Security and Emergency Services, BC Housing Mike Andrews, Emergency Planning Officer, North Shore Emergency Management Office Student Team: Natasha Kumar, Sittipol (Phil) Tribunyatkul, Kit Meng, Chen (Steve) Zeng Professor: Michael Winch Emergency response has to be fast without sacrificing quality. “Rapid Damage Assessment” records any damage […]
nwHacks
On day two of nwHacks the energy is high, even though most of the teams haven’t gotten much sleep. They are half way through a 36 hour hackathon and their ideas are starting to bring prototypes to life. Here is a small sample of the teams at nwHacks. The Veloci Penguins (pictured above) are using game dynamics […]
As mobile meets cloud
We are in the midst of the emergence of two revolutionary technologies; cloud computing and smart mobile devices. As these two technologies co-evolve they are driving the development of a new computing paradigm. Cloud computing centres, accessible through the Internet, produce shared pools of resources (e.g., software, storage, virtual machines) that can be run with […]