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11 Multipurpose Keychain
Area Award: Communications
Junting Lou
Lida Zhu
Yaming Tang
Rajarshi Roy design_document0.pdf
final_paper0.pdf
presentation0.ppt
proposal0.pdf
Locks and keys play a significant role in our everyday life. There are, however some annoying problems incurred sometimes. This project aims to produce a key chain with associated devices for the locks to be targeted to solve these problems. At anytime anywhere, one could check whether a certain door is locked by checking the saved information on the key chain. The information is automatically updated when locking or unlocking the doors. With the access of internet, one could also remotely lock any door from anywhere. In addition, with a bunch of similar or identical keys, the key chain can identify the one to the door a person is standing next to, saving the trouble of labeling them or the time to find the correct one. Last but not least ,one could also easily find the keys in his or her apartment or office if accidentally left it somewhere. This project will put together control theory, motor, power circuits and wireless communications to accomplish these tasks.

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