My impressions, experience and work on my first two weeks of internship

After two weeks of being fully on duty, all I can say is that I’m very impressed with the way all my experience has been shaping up until now.

I have been working on the Northern Ireland Technology Center.

Although I was not authorized to take pictures from the machinery inside for obvious reasons, I have been working on a small project that possesses a wireless device called Zigbee. It’s very similar to the regular Bluetooth, but in reality this one applies to a more industrial reality.

My work consists on studying if using the Zigbee as a humidity and temperature sensor as well as a transmitter is reliable.

I started working on a way to capture and transmit that date immediately, obviously this experience didn't show me what I was first expecting, since there was too much networking manipulation in it, so we decided to resort to a external LCD display.

This picture above shows my first contact with the Telegesis Terminal, it was my first successful attempt at making a network connection with a nod while establishing a sink as well.

Despite not being able to take pictures from the vast machinery I could take some from my workplace. I have a personal computer and all the documentation available to take home and study if necessary. 

Bellow there's a sample of my command list and the dossier that I have been studying on CE Marketing and used Directives to certify Electric and Electronical Devices on the UE and certifications on how to deal with the waste that this kind of material produces.

Throughout this week I will be doing some studies on battery consumption with a Zigbee module and its devboard working. After this I will then see what kind of batteries can be of use considering the costs to produce the maximum efficiency on signal range and life battery. Gladly I’m very comfortable with this kind of work since it uses the knowledge that I have acquired on my course at my vocational school.

I'm currently at home working due to the two day holiday, Orangeman Day. I will give an update on my work at the end of this week!