Before we talk about what happaned during the first week, in our opinion it would be worth to take a quote of our project "Helsinki Smart Parking and EV Charging"
"The project consists in specifying how electrical vehicles (and their drivers) can discover and reserve compatible and free charging stations close to where they have a meeting or other appointment...
The group should identify how this kind of service would be best implemented, what kind of user interfaces are needed, how billing and payment would work with such services and who are the existing service providers and stakeholders".
Week 1
Our project was launched on the very first lecture of SCI Project course on 23.9. Before that the students had been divided into project groups based on their own interest. Before the first lecture we had more or less even no clue how other group members look like. However, after a bunch of telegram messages, we were able to find each other. After that, we noticed that our group consisted of three Computer Science (Juuso, Linda, Jani), one Information Networks (Väinö) and one Industrial Engineering and Management student (Matias) - a rather diverse collection of skills!
The rest of the Friday and basically the first week were spent getting familiar with the topic and especially defining the project carefully. For example we examined the current apps for loading Electronic Vehicles (EV:s from now on). At this point, it was not 100% clear what our client wants from our project. Thus, there was much of a discussion with the other group, that has the same topic, about the goals of the project.
Furthermore, we thought about our strengths and dealt responsibilities. Most likely the Computer Science students will work around the possible prototype while Matias and Väinö will concentrate on project management, business models and user experience.
Picture 1: Responsibilities
All together, at this point all directions are still open. We arranged a meeting with the client on 3.10. After the meeting we will probably begin to work with the project more.
The project is now launched and much more is about the come. Stay tuned!
