PRE2019 3 Group12

Group Members

Name	ID	Major	Email
Winston Liu	1237841	Biomedical Engineering	w.w.liu@student.tue.nl
Jelle Donders	1258273	Medical Sciences and Technology	j.donders@student.tue.nl
Boris Krischel	1244947	Biomedical Engineering	b.krischel@student.tue.nl
Roy Schepers	0996153	Mechanical Engineering	r.j.m.schepers@student.tue.nl
Horea Breazu	1229343	Computer Science	h.breazu@student.tue.nl

Subject

Our subject for the project is going to be a system which uses a camera-based recognition software to, for example, find empty workplaces in various areas . These include areas like empty workspaces at Metaforum during examweeks for studying, empty places in a library for silentness or empty desks at flexible workspaces at a company.

Objectives

• Library or other flexible workplaces

The system should be able to tell the user whether there is an empty space (or more) in the area and if so, it should also be able to tell the user where this place is located. Additionally, it can also tell whether a person has left the workplace earlier than the end of the reserved time so that the workplace can be set to "available" sooner.

• Room reservation

It should be able to detect whether there are people in the room and if there is no one in the room within certain time window, it should set the room to available for reservation.

Users

The users we plan to target with our project include multiple groups of people, since it can be applied in various environments. Possible users include students, employees making use of flexible work spaces or library visitors. Each of these users can benefit from the technology in two situations. The first is in larger study or working halls, comparable to Metaforum, for checking if there are available places. The second is in smaller study rooms, comparable to booking rooms in Atlas for cancelling reservations if the student doesn't show up or leaves earlier.