Project Mission Statement
Make sure you go over the Fire Sat Mission Statement example and understand it before you write your mission statement for your project. Be advised that you may be required to rewrite your mission statement a number of times if it is not correct.
Remember that a mission statement is a broad statement of need and leaves room for alternatives that can satisfy the mission. A mission statement does not specify a particular product or require how a mission is to be accomplished. Pretend that you do not know the exact nature of your project, but know what the general need for your product is.
Please follow the Firesat example in the module for you project. I've attached the powerpoint for you here as well. This needs to be done correctly for you to continue doing the project assignments.
My project will be about a Completely Automated House
A completely automated house could be called a smart house. This is a system that manages lighting, heating, and other electrical elements in the building, creating a comfortable living or working environment, and ensuring the safety and energy savings. Such a home automates everyday activities of the residents. The host can regulate the lighting, blinds, climate, and heating. He also has a control over the intercom system. Any settings are activated by schedule, temperature, the presence of traffic or the press of a button.
Besides, the smart house is able for any combination of different functions. For example, not getting out of bed to open the blinds and turning on the radio in the kitchen by pressing just one button, or to warm the floors in the bathroom till the moment the host wakes up. The lighting can be adjusted in intensity. Even more, one is able to select the lighting for different interior areas or to highlight the decorative and architectural details. The blinds, shutters, or drapes can be opened and closed automatically at sunrise and sunset.
The automated house with integrated intercom system may turn on the light in the doorway at night during the call to the door, to make it easier to see the visitor. If no one is at home, the camcorder will record all visitors approaching the door. The function "Disable all" is very convenient when you leave the house or go to sleep. It disables all devices in the house simultaneously. It is possible to activate the function via the switch or through a mobile device. To configure or turn on and off the devices in the system, one can use a computer, tablet, or smartphone. The mobile device and the computer are turning into a remote control and allow to do it from anywhere in the home or the world with a stable Internet.
Semester Project
Pick a reasonably complex system to use as your semester project. It can be any one of the examples or a system that you chose. You must tell me what system you are choosing by Saturday, Jan 28th at 11:59pm MT and I must approve it. I will send you my approval by the next day.
Examples include:
• Radar systems - ground based, air bases or space based
• Drones or robots - underwater, on land or airborne for surveillance
• Lighter than air balloons for surveillance
• Satellites - any mission
• Power or fuel plants
• A completely automated house
• Automated Information Exchange System - provides commuters a safe and streamlined post-accident process for drivers and insurers
• Building a home
• Portable Display System for a complex system
• Vehicle Fog Elimination System
• Outdoor Sound Submersion system
• Home Theatre Design
• Uninterrupted Power Supply Facility Design
• Implementation of a low cost satellite system for Search and Rescue, surveillance, etc
• Automotive Traction Control System
• All in one bike system
• Building a new All-Terrain Vehicle system
• All electric Trail Bike system
• Wireless workout device
Once your system is approved, you will:
1. Write an acceptable mission statement for your system. Use the Firesat example shown in class. You may not proceed to step 2 until I approve your statement.
2. Write 10 system performance requirements
3. Write 5 subsystem performance requirements for each of 2 subsystems
4. Create a functional block diagram for your system (use only verbs)
5. Create level 3 product Work Breakdown Structure
6. Create a risk matrix for your top 5 technical system risks. Show and explain how these risks will be mitigated. Cost and schedule are not to be used as risks
7. Create a technical performance measure graph for your highest technical risk and explain the graphic.
8. Explain in bullet form how you will verify the system (Is it built to requirements)
9. Explain in bullet form how you will validate system performance (Customer Acceptance)
10. Describe in detail 2 trade studies that you would conduct to reach a final decision on your system architecture.
11. Create a top level system architecture drawing of you system. Include all subsystems.
Your final product will be a minimum of a 25-page power point presentation that contains at least all of the above assignments. See the Table of Contents example below
The course schedule will indicate the dates on which each assignment is due.
EXAMPLE TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction
1.1 Project Description
1.2 Project Objectives
1.3 Stakeholders
2. System Formal Design Process
2.1 Mission Statement
2.2 Mission Level Requirements
2.3 Mission Elements
2.4 Subsystem Elements
2.5 Subsystem Requirements and Descriptions
2.6 Functional Analysis Flow Diagram
2.7 Work Breakdown Structure
2.8 Risk Analysis
2.7.1 Technical Performance Measures
2.9 Drawing of System Architecture
2.10 Description of Trade Studies to be accomplished
3. System Integration and Test
3.1 System Interfaces - N2 Diagram
3.1.1 Interface Block Diagram
3.2 Integration Plan and Integration Flow Diagram
3.3 Test Plan and Test Flow Diagram (how will you test your design)
3.4 Acceptance Test Criteria (how will you get the customer to accept the product)
4. Conclusion
5. References
6. Appendices (if necessary
List of Figures
List of Tables.
Attachment:- Mission_Statements.rar