The Bluetooth Radar Project was Leading Edge’s first venture in application-based innovations. Our original goal was to improve accessibilities to libraries and popular study spaces by providing a ‘Bluetooth’ heat map which would account for signal strengths and measurement node’s placements in a facility to get a detailed occupancy map. However the project then evolved to a safer and more cost-effective implementation where the nodes would be placed at entry and exit points to implement a live occupancy measurement of the given study space.

This year Leading Edge aims to build an Electromyography (EMG) based sensor apparatus which when provided a certain set of gestures will be programmed to execute a certain set of tasks. For example a closed fist to turn off the lights.

One of Leading Edge’s side projects is to build an image-recognizing vision system. The goal of the system is to provide a base for later projects involving surveillance and security. The vision system would feature facial, image recognition, and infrared sensing for low-light environments.

Another project running this year is to build a game on both the iOS and Android platforms. This is to provide students an opportunity to learn about App development as well as get their creativity flowing by building an interactive game.