(FYP 1) Week 2: Workshop 1 Final Year Project Briefing & Surveying Title

Date: 12/10/2022 (Wednesday)

Title: Workshop 1 FYP Briefing

This week I attended the first workshop session for the Final Year Project subject which explained the introduction briefing of the final year project for this semester. The briefing was conducted online on the Microsoft Teams platform by Sir Mohamad Shaiful Bin Osman the Coordinator for the Final Year Project. This briefing was also attended by all students from FYP 1, FYP 2 and FYP Diploma where each piece of information given will be classified for each FYP respectively. The attendance of all the students that are taking the FYP was compulsory. 

In the briefing, the coordinator briefed us about :

·         Introduction

·         Objectives

·         Credits and duration

·         Scope of projects

·         Title selection

·         Project Assessment

·         Presentation day

·         Submission date of the project

In conclusion, the students were required to carefully select the title of the project. For degree students, the title must reflect the capability and knowledge of a degree student. Students may select the titles that are offered by lecturers (FYP supervisors) or come out with their own ideas.

Date: 13/10/2022 (Thursday)

Title: Surveying Title

Since I met with my supervisor Madam Azliza last week, I have started to look for ideas to set my FYP title in several ways including discovering a list of potential electronic projects for my FYP which will enable me to pick a suitable project that I can improve in terms of features that will enhance the project's functionality and diversify its applications. The next option is to perform a new search from previous FYPs on the UniKL BMI website, which keeps all previous FYPs, in order to get ideas. As a result, I have at last discovered a project idea for my FYP. The concept is based on a room entry and exit monitoring system that also uses Internet of Things (IoT) technology. This system can store data on the number and time of people entering and exiting the room, and it can alert the person in charge of the room as security to prevent cases of theft and trespassing from occurring. 

Once I have a concept for my FYP title, I meet with my supervisor once again to explain the concepts and discuss with her a title that fits the idea. As a result of the meeting and discussion, my supervisor is still not satisfied with my project idea because she feels that the project's output is so straightforward and common to FYP projects in the past. Therefore, she advised me to focus on the project idea's application, change its objective, add more functional elements like the Internet of Things, make a system that can save the data for analysis purposes, and emphasise the AI and machine learning systems. At the end of the meeting session, Development of Staffroom Monitoring System Using IoT is the title my supervisor thought would be suitable for my FYP. Other than that, I was instructed to find 3 journals that were related to my FYP, in order to prepare for a literature review.