Portable Topometric Station Project: Design and Implementation

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Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................3
LO1: Formulate and plan a project that will provide a solution to an identified engineering problem. 4
P1: Select an appropriate engineering based project, giving reasons for the selection....................4
P2 Create a project plan for the engineering project........................................................................6
LO2 Conduct planned project activities to generate outcomes which provide a solution to the
identified engineering problem.............................................................................................................9
P3 Conduct project activities, recording progress against the original project plan..........................9
LO3 Produce a project report analyzing the outcomes of each of the project processes and stages....9
P4 Produce a project report covering each stage of the project and analyzing project outcomes....9
LO4 Present the project report drawing conclusions on the outcomes of the project........................19
P5 Present the project report using appropriate media to an audience.........................................19
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................27
References...........................................................................................................................................28
Figure 1: Prototype 1.............................................................................................................................5
Figure 2: Prototype 2.............................................................................................................................5
Figure 3: Prototype 3.............................................................................................................................6
Figure 4: SDLC.....................................................................................................................................8
Figure 5: Gantt Chart.............................................................................................................................9
Figure 6: Slide 1..................................................................................................................................20
Figure 7: Slide 2..................................................................................................................................20
Figure 8: Slide 3..................................................................................................................................21
Figure 9: Slide 4..................................................................................................................................21
Figure 10: Slide 5................................................................................................................................22
Figure 11: Slide 6................................................................................................................................22
Figure 12: Slide 7...............................................................................................................................23
Figure 13: Slide 8...............................................................................................................................23
Figure 14: Slide 9...............................................................................................................................24
Figure 15: Slide 10..............................................................................................................................24
Figure 16: Slide 11..............................................................................................................................25
Figure 17: Slide 12..............................................................................................................................25
Figure 18: Slide 13..............................................................................................................................26
Table 1: Log table................................................................................................................................10

Introduction
There is about the engineering project which has a different project but here the project is
about managing the project. There is one construction company which want to have the
measurements for the mountain, land, etc. they want to measure the height, width, length, etc.
The project of the engineering is not as such different they are similar to the management of
the project like in this also there is planning, requirements, designing, implementation,
testing, etc has to be done. Here the report is of the project that according to the sceneries
which type of project is up to mark and what are the advantages and disadvantages are there
of the project which has been selected. The project consists of the log book which will help to
see the scheduling of the project and also they find the project to be good enough. There are
many attempts have been done in order to have the proper functioning of the project. This
device is the portable device which will help the person to take it anywhere for the
measurements. There is the presentation made which explain about the project which will
help the learner to grab more about the project.

LO1: Formulate and plan a project that will provide a solution to an
identified engineering problem
P1: Select an appropriate engineering based project, giving reasons for the
selection.
Here in this, there is Construction Company who demands such a project who will help them
to get the measurements of different areas such as the Mountain and etc. They want one
device which will help the person to have the appropriate measurements. The device should
be portable so therefore the project which I have chosen is the Portable Topometric Station.
This is the best because this consists of the very small devices which are easy to handle and
will help the person to have the appropriate measurements. This device will have functions
such as angle, distance, height and area of the building, lands to measure them. This consists
of the screen which is LCD which works on the real-time and has fewer seconds to calculate
all things. There is an option to change the units of the measurements that are inches, cm, m,
etc. This design is best because this is portable and easy to handle even one man can take it.
This will help to reduce the cost as there is no need to hire the two engineers so this will
provide the benefit to the company. There is a one-time investment for the device and then
there is just the maintenance which is low in cost. There are several tires done b before the
launching of the device or shown to the customers. All type of platforms is used for the test to
check the device. (Kapur, R. and Sodhi, B., 2019).
The design was made with the different sensors so that they can sense all types of things
which they want. There is the use of LCD which is Liquid Crystal Display which displays the
range of the device. There is a systemic circuit design which might fails sometimes.
There is a number of attempt made to make the best device. Like in the first attempt there
was the distance taken which have the rocking sensor but the software was not working then
one solution was found in that there is about the interconnection between the modules and all
(Morariu, 2019).

Figure 1: Prototype 1
Figure 2: Prototype 2

Figure 3: Prototype 3
P2 Create a project plan for the engineering project.
The process of the project is based on the cycle which is the software development cycle
which will help the person to follow the steps in a good way to get the best project of the
software. There is the universal process for the project and this phase helps to have the best
project if the steps are followed in the correct order. The process consists of 7 phases which
are named as requirements of the project, planning for the project, design for the project,
implementation of the project, testing, maintenance, and deployment (Kapur, R. and Sodhi,
B., 2019).
 Requirements of the project: All the resources, data, etc have to be collected before
the project is made. So here in this project also there is a various number of
requirements are present to build the project and this will be done. Not only resources
are collect also there is a collection of basic knowledge of the project to start. Here in
this like they need to have the sensors which are of different types, they need to have
the motherboards or other boars for controlling the device. In this phase, only all the
things have been done clear such as cost or budget of the project because there is a
need to work in the budget only not to exceed the budget. So in this phase, there is to

focus on the proper requirements as well as the cost of the resource which are taking
in the form of requirements.
 Planning: The planning of the project is the must it does not for the engineering
projects only but also for all type of project. The planning has to be done of the
project with the manager and the project members. There is an allocation of the
resource, teams, etc. The planning has to be strong so that there are fewer chances of
getting the risk in the project. The planning has to be done wisely because the whole
project follows the planning.
 Designing the project: The project is designed with the demand of the client. And
this will be kind of prototype which can be shown to the client for the approval of the
design. And if there are any changes needed then the designer can change there only
because once the implementation goes on then it is difficult to change the code or
circuit systems. So it’s better to have an approval in this phase only.
 Implementation of the project: The project has been implemented with the
resources which are used in projects. The project can be implemented by using the
sensors, boards, etc. they can be interconnected and can easily work over it for
implementation.
 Testing: The implementation is done and there is a phase to which there is checking
for the implementation that it is done right or there are any errors or so. For this, there
is a need to have the testing to which there is a different kind of testing is done. There
is white testing, unit testing, integration testing, etc.
 Maintenance: There is a need to do the maintenance which has to make the software
updated and then there is a need to have low maintenance which can be affordable for
the company. There is a need for maintenance as there is a release of new versions of
the technology, therefore there is a need to have the maintenance.
 Deployment: There is need to have the launching of the project of the software or
device which has to be done with the proper testing and this will help the person to
have the proper launching or the software in the market (Morariu, 2019).
Sustainability of the project
The project needs to be sustainable le that means the project use the minimal number of
resources which are used and also the project has to be feasible. The sustainably is to the
ability which maintains the functionality of the project. There should be fewer resources used
so that means only the resources which are used should be present no unnecessary resources

should be present. There should be the aim of the engineering project to create the project
with proper economic, ecological and technical our aspects.
The engineering project which has been selected is the portable topometric device which will
help to measure the areas of the land, the sustainability of the projects is there are only
resources used which area so they are used in the limited amount there are no extra resources
used because this will not make the device good the device which is good is the one who will
have the less complexity. So this project or the device fully supports the definition of
sustainability (Kapur, R. and Sodhi, B., 2019).
Figure 4: SDLC
(Sources: Material, S.2019 )

LO2 Conduct planned project activities to generate outcomes which
provide a solution to the identified engineering problem.
P3 Conduct project activities, recording progress against the original
project plan.
ID Task
Mode
Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors Resource Names
0 Portable
Topometrci
Station
51 days Thu
11-07-19
Thu
19-09-19
1 1 Requirements 12 days Thu 11-07-19Mon 29-07-19
2 1.1 Exploring
from industry
3 days Thu
11-07-19
Mon
15-07-19
3 1.2 Collecting
the resources
4 days Tue
16-07-19
Fri 19-07-19 2
4 1.3
Requirments
evalutating
5 days Mon
22-07-19
Fri 26-07-19 3
5 1.4 Milestone 0 days Mon 29-07-19Mon 29-07-194
6 2 Planning 9 days Mon 29-07-19Fri 09-08-19
7 2.1 Goals
defining for the
project
2 days Mon
29-07-19
Tue
30-07-19
5
8 2.2 Objects
definning for
the project
3 days Wed
31-07-19
Fri 02-08-19 7
9 2.3 Resource
Identification
4 days Mon
05-08-19
Thu
08-08-19
8
10 2.4 Milestone 0 days Fri 09-08-19 Fri 09-08-19 9
11 3 Project Designing7 days Fri 09-08-19 Tue 20-08-19
12 3.1 Project
Prototype
desgin
3 days Fri 09-08-19 Tue
13-08-19
10
13 3.2 Project
Approval of the
desgin
4 days Wed
14-08-19
Mon
19-08-19
12
14 3.3 Milestone 0 days Tue 20-08-19Tue 20-08-1913
15 4 Implementation of project3 days Tue 20-08-19Fri 23-08-19
16 4.1
Implementation
of project
3 days Tue
20-08-19
Thu
22-08-19
14
17 4.2 Milestone 0 days Fri 23-08-19 Fri 23-08-19 16
18 5 Testing 15 days Fri 23-08-19 Fri 13-09-19
19 5.1 Black Testing3 days Fri 23-08-19 Tue 27-08-1917
20 5.2 UnitTesting 4 days Wed 28-08-19Mon 02-09-1919
21 5.3 Integration Testing5 days Tue 03-09-19Mon 09-09-1920
22 5.4 White testing3 days Tue 10-09-19Thu 12-09-1921
23 5.5 Milestone 0 days Fri 13-09-19 Fri 13-09-19 22
24 6 Maintainences of project1 day Fri 13-09-19 Mon 16-09-19
25 6.1 Low
Maintainence
of project
1 day Fri 13-09-19 Fri 13-09-19 23
26 6.2 Milestone 0 days Mon 16-09-19Mon 16-09-1925
27 7 Launching of project4 days Mon 16-09-19Thu 19-09-19
28 7.1 Start for
launching the
project
2 days Mon
16-09-19
Tue
17-09-19
26
29 7.2 Ending of launching2 days Wed 18-09-19Thu 19-09-1928
29-07
09-08
20-08
23-08
13-09
16-09
09 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 02 05 08 11 14 17 20 23 26 29 01 04 07 10 13 16 19 22
July 2019 August 2019 September 2019
Figure 5: Gantt Chart
LO3 Produce a project report analyzing the outcomes of each of the
project processes and stages.
P4 Produce a project report covering each stage of the project and
analyzing project outcomes.
Table 1: Log table
Task Name Description Duration Start Finish

Portable Topometric
Station
This is the project
name to which
the project has to
be built. The
device which is
built to this.
51 days Thu 11-07-
19
Thu 19-
09-19
Requirements
This phase
consists of the
requirement of
the project that
what are the
resources needed
for this. What will
be the cost of the
resources, which
type of resources
will be used, so
this is basically
the main task
followed with the
subtasks which
are performed
with the
durations.
12 days Thu 11-07-
19
Mon 29-
07-19
Exploring from
industry
The resources are
explored m
industries which
are working on
such type of
devices. There are
many different
things which are
3 days Thu 11-07-
19
Mon 15-
07-19

required for the
project. Therefore
there are many
industry visits
have to have
done.
Collecting the
resources
The resources
collecting are of
the parts such as
senor which have
to search which
might be
available for the
low cost.
4 days Tue 16-07-
19
Fri 19-07-
19
Requirements
evaluating
The requirements
are matched with
the resources that
are evaluated with
the manager of
the project. This
has to be matched
with the
requirements of
resources.
5 days Mon 22-07-
19
Fri 26-07-
19
Milestone Here the
requirement
phase ends with
the proper process
and milestone
occurs which is
having 0 days
basically it should
the completion of
0 days Mon 29-07-
19
Mon 29-
07-19

phases.
Planning
The planning
consists of when
all the resources
are available and
now it needs to
have the proper
approval of the
resources and also
the planning of
the project is
discussed with the
customer or
client.
9 days Mon 29-07-
19
Fri 09-08-
19
Goals defining for
the project
The goals should
be defined for
every project this
is necessary as
there can be goals
fixed and the
destination of the
project. This can
be helpful for the
member of the
project.
2 days Mon 29-07-
19
Tue 30-
07-19
Objective defining
for the project
The objectives
have to be
defined so that all
the member can
focus on the
project. The
project has the
objectives to
3 days Wed 31-07-
19
Fri 02-08-
19