[ECE 453] Re: Meeting and Important Information

I imagine we are going to have a meeting tomorrow to discuss progress and/or
presentation.  My fearless leaders, any idea what time?

Thanks,
Lee

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Behalf Of Matthew Warren
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 7:18 PM
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Subject: [ECE 453] Re: Meeting and Important Information

I have no class at all tomorrow, so if it would be helpful for me to
come to the 449 lab to help somebody work on anything, I'm free - just
let me know.

-Matthew

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Logen Watkins <slapkey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I'm finally out of my comatose state -- which was better than the state
> before it, but we won't go there;  Not feeling great but I'm going to get
> some serious work in tonight because I know we're on a strict deadline
here.
>
> The basic idea behind my code is the producer/consumer model you may
> remember from ECE 329 (I think?).  I have four threads, a pair for images
> and a pair for data.  The "Receiver" of each pair is listening for new
> data/images, and when it finds something adds all of that information too
a
> queue to be processed.  That enables the Receiver to quickly look again
for
> data, instead of going through the writing process (in the images example)
> and THEN looking for new data.  In my tests I think it worked better than
> doing it all in one class.  So the "Writer" of each pair is scanning the
> data and image queues for stuff to be processed. For data, this involves
> gleaning from the data transmission all of the vehicle information
> structures that DBusch and I set up, and subsequently inserting those
> records into the database.  For images, a filename/location is made and
the
> image is written to the harddisk, followed by an entry into the database
of
> this frame number (what links the images to the data, as chris said) and
> file location.
>
> i've been in touch with those at the TMC so we're trying to get this thing
> up and going.  I will say that the code on the TMC currently is very
> outdated, and I had stripped parts of it to do the testing chris
described,
> so don't try and use it.
>
> -logen
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Chris Rodgers <Rodger4@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hey Kenny,
>>
>> I'm not really sure if I can talk intelligently about the code that Logen
>> was writing.  However, I believe his app was going to create threads for
>> each of the four fixed cameras.  Each thread was going to use the network
>> API to ask and receive data.  I believe these threads were going to check
>> for an image/data pair before inserting the image path and vehicle
>> information pertaining to that image into the database.  However, I'm not
>> sure how much of that is done.  I don't know if dummy threads were
created
>> or if you can just plug the API function calls in there and be
good-to-go.
>>
>> A separate thread in the program is also going to periodically delete all
>> of the images older than a day (we believe that's our worst-case storage
>> limitation).  I know Dan was working with Logen to do that part of it,
but I
>> think you'd have to ask him to see if that got done.
>>
>> Some of the code that Logen wrote is actually on the TMC.  You just need
>> to open visual studio express 2008 on the server and go to the LogenCCode
>> tab.  I have only looked at this code as an interface for testing other
>> components on the webpage, so I don't know to what extent it has been
>> altered to act as a test rather than a functional app.
>>
>> The website is ready to go for when the API is up, so nothing needs to be
>> done there.  At least, we hope... I know that probably sounds terrible...
we
>> did extensive testing without the API up to see to it that everything
will
>> work.  However, without an API going on the server, we don't know for
sure.
>>
>> Sorry I can't be of more help.
>> -Chris
>>
>> On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:32:20 -0500, Ken Knox <kknox@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Guys,
>>>
>>> Guess somebody canceled the meeting? About four of us showed up tonight
>>> and Lee set up the routing for the last IP camera. We are getting great
>>> feeds from the fixed cameras and the IP cameras.
>>>
>>> We need to do video tomorrow since the weather will be sunny with a high
>>> of 56.
>>>
>>> Since Logen is sick we need to band together to try and get the control
>>> center up and running by sometime early tomorrow. We at least need to
>>> figure out a way to get the fixed camera feed to the control center
>>> website. I'm willing to volunteer my time to get the system functional
by
>>> tomorrow.
>>>
>>> Worst-comes-worst we can run the algorithm at each location and take
>>> video
>>> of each. I hate to come this close and not succeed. We probably should
>>> plan another meeting for tomorrow to do all the video recording, etc.
>>>
>>> Does anybody have an idea on what needs to be done to get the control
>>> center data passing functional?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Kenny
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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