Aron M c Kinnon

1. Aron McKinnon Raymond Tan Peter Chen 14th Dec 2007

2. Outline • Why SWIS? • The problem • Our competitors • Our solution and targeted market • Product overview • Our design • Live demonstration • Production timeline • Budget • Funding • Conclusion • Acknowledgements

3. Why SWIS? • Short-range : Suitable for enclosed environments and built up areas. • Wireless: Reduce clutter and obstruction due to wiring. • Innovative: Simple implementations that achieve practical results. • Solutions: Products that solve common daily problems.

4. The Company • Aron McKinnon, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SWIS • Raymond Tan, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of SWIS • Peter Chen, Chief Quality Assurance Officer of SWIS

5. The Problem: • Customers sometimes wait for extended periods of time to be served. • Due to failure of being alerted, service providers otherwise kept busy, are left idling • Decreased productivity due to time wastage resulting from lack of communication. • Decrease in productivity may ultimately lead to lower income and poor customer appraisal.

6. Possible Settings • Mainly hospitality environments: • Restaurants • Hospitals • Old age homes • Department Stores • Therefore, these are our target consumer groups.

7. Our Competitors’ Designs • High-tech solutions : touch screen order menu. • elegent solution • costly investment • The “WaiterCaller” wireless paging system • alerts a waiter to a table’s request • does not identify purpose of paging • does not enable waiter to update the kitchen

8. Our Solution: • Designing a short-range wireless product for numerous consumer venues/ hospitality environment. • Allows customer to electronically page individual service providers for attention. • Added feature of allowing internal communication amongst service providers. • Allow page request display in order to reduce unproductive travelling time.

9. Our Prototype: • A prototype design customized to cater for a restaurant environment

10. Product Overview • SWIS SerCal (Server Caller) • Example scenario : Restaurant • Bluetooth wireless scheme • 3 component units

11. SerCal Components • Kitchen Unit: • Central communication hub. (Computer) • Updates waiters on customers paging and orders ready. • Server Unit: • Portable Unit (eg. PDA) carried by waiters • Displays customer & kitchen paging status • Updates kitchen on table orders. • Table Unit: • Pages for waiters’ attention

12. How the SerCal Works

13. SerCal Design • Hardware: SerCal Table Unit

14. SerCal Design • Hardware: Logitech V270 Bluetooth wireless mouse • Bluetooth 1.2 wireless technology • Adaptive frequency hoping • Battery life up to 2200 hours • Features low battery indicator light • 1000 dpi optical engine • Uses 2 AA batteries • 3 push buttons with scroll wheel function

15. SerCal Design • Hardware: Pushbuttons (final design): NKK single element DPDT LED UB series • Double pole double through • PCB mountable with gold contacts • Power level 5A at 30V DC • Dielectric strength 0.4VA • Mechanical life > 1000000 operations • Electrical life > 10000 operations • Operation temperature -25 – 50 degrees Celsius • LED rating: 1.85V at 20mA • CSA certified

16. Software Design • Two parts: • Kitchen • Server

17. Kitchen Software • The kitchen software is responsible for • Receiving signals from the Table Units • Relay the signals to the desinated Server Unit • Receive orders from the Server Unit

18. Server Software • The Server software will: • Allow the user to take orders and send to the Kitchen Unit. • Receive signals from the Kitchen Unit that tells the server what table is in need.

19. Flowchart

20. Screenshots

21. Implementation & training • Users will be instructed by SWIS engineers, or use the device under the supervision of SWIS engineers. • Manuals will be provided, which include: • The customer manual • for an audience with minimal technical expertise • one page leaflet with proper instrument care and sensor placement information

22. Implementation & training • Server worker manual • for an audience with general experience with electronics device • provide training for complete device usage of two modules: Table Unit and Server Unit • Service crew manual • for an audience with expertise in electronic device • complete training, setup, troubleshooting, and device characteristics information for all three modules: Table Unit, Server Unit and Kitchen Unit.

23. Production timeline

24. Budget

25. Funding • Engineering Science Student Endowment Fund of $50 • Remaining costs were borne by SWIS.

26. Why SWIS SerCal? • Greatly reduces redundant waiting time • Effective and efficient use of resources • Real time request/status updates (important for time critical services, ie. hospital) • Increased productivity • Improve customers’ impression!

27. Acknowledgements We would like to thank the following people: • Dr Andrew Rawicz for his guidance, suggestions and endorsement of funding from the engineering science endowment fund. • Mr Mike Sjoerdsma for imparting us with valuable knowledge on project documentation and presentation. • Mr Brad Oldham and Ms Lisette Paris Shaadi for taking time off to cater for consultation sessions and providing advice with regards to our design implementation

28. QUESTIONS?

29. Thank you! Aron McKinnon Raymond Tan Done by: Peter Chen

30. Prototype Demonstration …….