Friday, October 21, 2016

Project Idea Refinement

Candidate:
Idea 2: Audio control system.
What problem are you looking to solve?
Audio volume issues when using a speaker system
What potential solution(s) have you considered for this problem?
Aside from the IoT solution of intelligent control of volume and other factors, there remains little that can really be done to solve this issue. Perhaps a sound engineer would know more about it. Maybe tearing down the entire room and rebuilding it for better acoustics? That’s definitely not practical, no matter how rich you are, and the return on such a project would be minimal at best.
How might you integrate IoT concepts?
The IoT solution is to have a bunch of Photons or other devices scattered around the room. They each have sensor(s) that can detect different aspects about the audio in the room, and they all report those readings to another device that is controlling the audio device of the room.
1 minute pitch draft:
“Everyone’s heard of audio feedback before. The dreaded ‘eeeeEEEEE’ that keeps getting worse until you turn down the volume or shut down the entire system. What I’m proposing is a way to solve that issue, once and for all. Thanks to the handy Particle Photon, an accompanying audio sensor, and some programming knowledge, we can hook up a bunch of these around a room and use them to automatically control the volume of audio systems so that they’re just the right volume. We’ll start small, in college lecture halls. From there, we can expand to presentation rooms, and finally into the home. The future of self-regulated audio is here.”

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