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67 Sound Controlled Smoke Detector
 Meng Gao
Xinrui Zhu
Yihao Zhang
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Almost all of us encounters false fire alarms at some point in our life. Although many modern fire alarms have the ability to mute temporarily with a push of button, the physical location of the smoke detector does not always make it easy to do so.
At the same time, voice controlled products are entering markets, and gaining popularity in recent days. These products, such as Android phones and Amazon Echo, can be activated by keyword such as “OK Google”, ”Alexa”, or “Amazon”.
Therefore, we propose a sound controlled fire alarm that allows you to easily turn the alarm off by shouting the keyword "cooking" when false alarm happens (in addition to a push button). The project will contain two parts: 1) a smoke alarm circuit with carbon monoxide sensor, microphone, mute button, and 2) a DSP core for the key word recognition.
The user will need to train the alarm once, where the DSP will find and store the Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) for the training word. Then once the alarm is triggered, interrupt will be served to the core through a interrupt pin or a GPIO, and the DSP will actively listen for any keywords, finding the MFCCs for what it hears, and comparing with the stored MFCCs. If the mean square error is below a threshold, the DSP will stop the alarm.
In additional, if we have time, we may also look into Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) to improve our accuracy.

Logic Circuit Teaching Board

Younas Abdul Salam, Andrzej Borzecki, David Lee

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Partners: Younas Abdul Salam, Andrzej Borzecki, David Lee

The proposal our group has is of creating a board that will be able to teach students about logic circuits hands on. The project will consist of a board and different pieces that represent gates. The board will be used to plug in the pieces and provide power to the internal circuitry of the pieces. The pieces will have a gate and LEDs inside, which will be used to represent the logic at the different terminals.

By plugging in and combining gates, students will be able to see the actual effect on logic from the different combinations that they make. To add to it, we will add a truth table that can be used to represent inputs and outputs required, for example, for a class project or challenge. The board will be able to read the truth table and determine whether the logic the student has created is correct.

This board can act as a great learning source for students to understand the working of logic circuits. It can be helpful in teaching logic design to students in high schools who are interested in pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering.

Please comment on whether the project is good enough to be approved, and if there are any suggestions.

Thank you