Tracking System For Loudspeaker Rentals

PK Sound deals with multiple rentals to clients that all go to a variety of locations and venues. Therefore, managing the location of each speaker and ensuring that they arrive at their destination can be quite tedious and disorganized, if not done correctly. Also, if a speaker goes missing with no transaction of its history during delivery, this can be costly for the company. Our tracker system application helps alleviate this overhead work by keeping track of multiple speakers (with GPS trackers), managing client rentals, ensuring rentals are on the correct delivery path and notifying employees once a delivery has made it to the correct location.

Unlike common delivery services where drivers have to manually notify users when a delivery has arrived at its location, our system will automatically notify PK Sound employees once a speaker has been successfully delivered. The system will provide an automatically generated email notification once a rental is within a certain radius of the final delivery location/venue. Furthermore, our system will also allow employees to monitor the complete journey of a delivery, observe if it is following the correct path, and anticipate any delays that may come about from rerouting.

The design of our application solves the original problem while also providing additional layers that make the experience more interactive and informative. This is done by using animations throughout the website and providing live updates with locations to the map so that rentals can be tracked at all times. Our design also takes into account the usability and intuitiveness for a user. The layout is kept simple and direct so that a user is not overwhelmed and can logically follow the process of creating new rentals, adding speakers, and then managing them through the map. 

For the software component of our application, we validated our design by creating a detailed test plan for both the frontend and backend. The backend simply involved creating unit tests so that our application would have as much coverage as possible. The frontend had utilized automation testing for component testing such as the Jest framework and React testing library. Also, we had employed techniques of happy path and negative path manual testing for the frontend.

For the hardware component, we had validated our design through manual tests and data collection to ensure that our GPS component was able to receive coordinates as well as post them wirelessly to our server. We had also tested our power draw to ensure and predict our battery life consumption.

On top of this, we had held several design review meetings with our sponsor representatives and academic advisors before implementation to define clear requirements and technical specifications that our group should be achieving in order to create a successful prototype.

Throughout the development of our project, our group ensured its feasibility by using Jira project boards to manage our workload. From this, we were able to guarantee extensive testing near the end of our capstone project. Furthermore, we had meetings with our academic advisors and sponsor representatives to discuss the overall feasibility of our design and any challenges that may arise within our development or the foreseeable future.