Part A. Presentation and Justification of the problem
1. List of 4(6) problems that you are considering. Write a couple of sentences about each idea. Include possible justification sources (who says it is a problem and why should I believe them) and availability of possible solutions on the market.
Storage Problems:
- Problems with storage of clothing or toys.
- Boxes can be larger than they need to be so it wastes needed space that can be used for other things.
Finding Lost Items:
- A lot of people misplace or lose items, such as their phones, tablets, shoes, and even car keys.
- Something that can track all of these items will make finding the lost items a whole lot easier, and it will remove the time lost in finding the items.
Feeding Pets:
- Always having to pick up a large bag of pet food, and carry it over to pet bowls, or bringing the pet bowl over to where the dog food is can be annoying
to do everyday.
Long Lasting Toys:
- Most children toys only last a couple of years if a child regularly plays with them.
- The toys that break then lose all of their value, if they can't be fixed.
Alternative Energy:
- Around 1.5 billion people, or more than a fifth of the world's population, have no electricity and a billion more have only a small amount of unreliable
electricity.
- Affordable, reliable energy is essential to the economy because energy powers everything that makes life possible.
Annoying Cables:
- Power cables for phones, or phone earbuds can get tangled with other cords, or they eventually fray.
- Problems with storage of clothing or toys.
- Boxes can be larger than they need to be so it wastes needed space that can be used for other things.
Finding Lost Items:
- A lot of people misplace or lose items, such as their phones, tablets, shoes, and even car keys.
- Something that can track all of these items will make finding the lost items a whole lot easier, and it will remove the time lost in finding the items.
Feeding Pets:
- Always having to pick up a large bag of pet food, and carry it over to pet bowls, or bringing the pet bowl over to where the dog food is can be annoying
to do everyday.
Long Lasting Toys:
- Most children toys only last a couple of years if a child regularly plays with them.
- The toys that break then lose all of their value, if they can't be fixed.
Alternative Energy:
- Around 1.5 billion people, or more than a fifth of the world's population, have no electricity and a billion more have only a small amount of unreliable
electricity.
- Affordable, reliable energy is essential to the economy because energy powers everything that makes life possible.
Annoying Cables:
- Power cables for phones, or phone earbuds can get tangled with other cords, or they eventually fray.
Sources:
http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/studies/hard-facts-energy-primer/
http://www.economist.com/node/16909923
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidferris/2012/07/24/how-wireless-charging-will-make-life-simpler-and-greener/#64c49b0e3c35
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-do-your-earphones-get-tangled-in-your-pocket-science-has-the-answer-9548540.html
https://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2009-01/harvesting-energy-humans
http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/studies/hard-facts-energy-primer/
http://www.economist.com/node/16909923
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidferris/2012/07/24/how-wireless-charging-will-make-life-simpler-and-greener/#64c49b0e3c35
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-do-your-earphones-get-tangled-in-your-pocket-science-has-the-answer-9548540.html
https://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2009-01/harvesting-energy-humans
2. Decision matrix
3. Justification of your problem by three reliable sources (online or library). Provide a summary and a source of each finding.
Research/Justifying the problem:
1. Alternative solutions is a huge problem in the world, it is worth solving for cheaper and reusable energy.
2. This problem is worth solving because it would help a lot of people have energy at a cheaper price and it’ll help the environment, reducing pollution, and dangers with alternative solutions that have been used such as nuclear energy.
3. The solution for this problem will definitely be marketable considering it's a worldwide problem.
The marketplace is considerable due that it can solve many problems in the world. In 2013 and average monthly electrical bill that residents had was on average from 80 dollars to over 125 dollars.
Our competition would be other alternative energy sources such as wind, solar, hydroelectric, and geothermal.
In general customers would be more interested in looking for a cheaper, efficient, and low maintenance energy source
Research sites:
http://eyeonhousing.org/2015/03/average-monthly-electrical-bill-by-state-2013/
https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/causes-and-solutions-to-the-global-energy-crisis.php
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170313-the-biggest-energy-challenges-facing-humanity
1. Alternative solutions is a huge problem in the world, it is worth solving for cheaper and reusable energy.
2. This problem is worth solving because it would help a lot of people have energy at a cheaper price and it’ll help the environment, reducing pollution, and dangers with alternative solutions that have been used such as nuclear energy.
3. The solution for this problem will definitely be marketable considering it's a worldwide problem.
The marketplace is considerable due that it can solve many problems in the world. In 2013 and average monthly electrical bill that residents had was on average from 80 dollars to over 125 dollars.
Our competition would be other alternative energy sources such as wind, solar, hydroelectric, and geothermal.
In general customers would be more interested in looking for a cheaper, efficient, and low maintenance energy source
Research sites:
http://eyeonhousing.org/2015/03/average-monthly-electrical-bill-by-state-2013/
https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/causes-and-solutions-to-the-global-energy-crisis.php
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170313-the-biggest-energy-challenges-facing-humanity
4. Potential market survey - provide questions and results. You should question 200-300 people.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScNnQGNEbQn6gi6aqP-AWBErErU6iTO-X6fa6rtaMaOdzEQfQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
5. Problem Statement - Who? What? Where? When? How many? Your problem statement should leave room for multiple solutions.
Consumers with an electrical bill cost ranging from $50 to above $200 dollars would like an energy source that can reduce the cost of their electrical bill to less than $100, preferably $0. Out of the 201 responses, 37.8% chose solar as their most ideal source of energy, due to it being very efficient and environmentally friendly, making it the most popular choice in the survey for already created renewable energy sources. 53.25 of the responses stated that they would like to try a new source of renewable energy. Some ideas on new possible sources of renewable energy that were given in the survey are to create thorium reactors, use an atom smasher, fusion, attaching generators to little children, attaching solar panels to birds, or just steal electricity from other countries, all of which are highly probable.
6. Summary
At the start of Part A of the EDD Capstone Project, we took only 2 days to find our problems because we thought of the problems before the project technically started. That gave us the extra time to evaluate the problems in a decision matrix and a problem statement matrix. This took most of our time to do because it decides what we are going to research and build for the next 3 months. We created in a research in depth to know more about the problem we are planning to solve and we justified our problem looking for sources that help us prove our problem needs to be solved. We conducted a survey that also helps justify our problem, and helped us see how big our problem was and the importance of having it solved.