IoThon 2019 - Brainstorm

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Problems:

1. 3rd wave of coffee is hyped at the moment, coffee trading has become a huge industry and the term "Speciality Coffee" is well known to most of urban dwellers. The issue is, some processes in coffee making (brewing) are not automated. brewing is a delicate procedure, very voltaile to any change, resulting in inconsistencies in the brewing process, let alone as a preparation for brewing competitions where each step while brewing can create the perfect or the worst cup of coffee.

Solutions:

1. A device which monitors different values which are relevant to coffee brewing. e.g Humidity of the beans, Coaresness of the Ground beans, temperature and PH levels of the water over time while brewing, brewing speed etc...

Smart Household Idea
In family households, it is a big challenge to divide up cleaning tasks to teach the kids responsibility and useful life hacks. Especially in families with a lot of kids, who fight a lot about this, and in families with full-time working parent, who are not there to solve such conflicts. So that the kids end up doing nothing.

To avoid such conflicts and to improve family life, we would like to implement a smart home / household with IoT.
Several household devices, like trash can, washing machine, dish washer, ..., can notify the family when they need to be clean.
These household devices are sending notifications to the server, which matches the household task with the responsible person cleaning it.

The parents should have the possibility to schedule other tasks, like cleaning the toilet every week or filling in the washing machine with white laundry on Tuesday. When the kids succeed in their tasks, the parents can distribute points and awards. #gamification
So that the kids learn to participate in the household chores in a playful way. Furthermore the parents can define, what the kids abilities are, f.e. the older sibling can control and fill the washing machine, but not the younger sibling. The younger sibling can empty the washing machine though.

The challenges are to adapt micro-controllers to the several diverse household devices.

Bike2Bike Navigation Idea
My idea is inspired by an example presented during the lecture, where the handlebar of the bike is vibrating when the user needs to turn left or right. I had the idea to connect several bikes to make the navigation of bike tours in bigger groups easier. The application would be excursions for tourist groups or school classes. In the second example, the teacher is using the app to determine the path of the bike tour and to connect all the bikes to it and the students receive light or vibrating signals on their bikes. If a student is too far away from the group the teacher gets a notification.