Prof. J. Walter - Informationstechnik, Mikrocomputertechnik, Digitale Medien Advantages - Disadvantages - Catalogue
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Intelligent Crutch
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3.4 Advantages - Disadvantages - Catalogue

SWOT-Analyse

Intelligent Crutch Strengths:
- Know-How of ESP32 microcontroller
- Experience with strain-gage force sensors
- Experience with energy-saving on electronics

Weaknesses:
- Existing crutch provides build restrictions
- Little experience in front-end design
- Hardware aquisition restricted due to Covid-19
- Group work online due to Covid-19
Opportunities
- Improve online working skills
- renew knowledge of wireless communication
- renew knowledge of energy-saving
- enable long battery runtime

Advance
- Use ESP32 sleep modes
- Use existing sleep-mode code
- Use mostly premanufactured components
- Use 3D printing for mechanical components
Develop
- Use of GitHub for software development
- Measure the dimensions of several crutches
- Use of video conferences in team meetings
Threats
- Force sensor damaged by overload
- Battery drain due to faulty energy-saving
- Loss of logging data
- Loss of communication between crutches
Secure
- Test software throughly
- Structure and document software cleanly
- Test single components throughly
Avoid
- Overload on force-sensor due to shock loads
- Over-discharge of battery by regular monitoring

  With Support of Prof. J. Walter Summer Semester 2021