In this post i would like to talk more about what we are emphasized on right now. It is functionality. For 2 month we were trying to choose the most important applications that must be inside of BeGo straight away. But while trying to choose the best selection we always find something new to add. We think that it is important to make your watches solve your daily tasks easier. So now lets see the basic functions that we have right now in our watches.
Phone calls / SMS notifications
Probably there is no point to explain what is this function about so i will just tell you what we have done yet and what problems we are facing.
We have our own developed android software,that we will talk about later, for connecting to BeGo and sending useful information. On the watches we use HC-06 bluetooth module to connect to your phone because it is cheap and easy to use. Range is about 15 meters so you will never have unpredictable disconnections. When connection is established application can work in background staying connected to BeGO and sending all the incoming notifications about calls and messages.
When you receive SMS from your mom you instantly get a popup notification on the screen saying at what time you got a message and you can easily press the button and read it. At the moment we display maximum 5 messages. Is there a need to make more or not we are not sure. For me it is kind of enough.
Calling procedure is almost the same, it saves your incoming calls, time of the call and it vibrates to keep you notified.
Pedometer
For the pedometer function we needed to choose an accelerometer to read angle value. Again as we are developing cheap solution of the smart watches we need to find cheapest and most accurate option. We have stopped our selection on mma7361. At the moment procedure of reading angle is simply an ADC conversion of the X axis and then beginning of algorithm to calculate steps. If you are interested in codes feel free to write and ask them. We can easily share it and make it better with you.
There is still much to do but calculating steps is already available feature.We will not stop on just calculating steps of course. Main idea is to provide accurate steps calculations and variety of useful information for you to make your running more productive.
Pedometer will provide you with your weekly information about steps done, kcal burned and efficiency.
We are now trying to choose the most precise way to display this information. We also think that it would be nice to have a way to transfer all the history to pc. I hope soon we will show you some cool screenshots to make more clear how it works.
Media control
At this stage we have nothing to say from embedded part of our project. Our software developer on android has already finished making media control so its all now about making it on the watches. Software part goes a bit faster than the embedded one, so we have still much to do.
Timing/Alarm/
We are developing our watches on stm32 micro-controller and it allows us to make timing system really easily. Even if your watches are switched off timing system does not stop working.
You do not even need to manually setup time. When you connect your watches to BeGo application on your android it automatically synchronizes time.
Date,month,weekday - you have everything on your screen.
The only aspect here we have not worked on is alarm. Some of us think that there is no need in alarm but no worries we will provide it in the first version of BeGo.
GUI - Graphical user interface
Making interface is the most important part at that point. It should be both beautiful looking and easy to use. We are trying to combine the most necessary information on the screen. We are always thinking about graphics. I am sure that there will be tons of options later. But right now we have stopped on easy design with status about connection, unread messages,missed calls,date,time, and battery life.
So hopefully you will like it at that point.
You do not even need to manually setup time. When you connect your watches to BeGo application on your android it automatically synchronizes time.
Date,month,weekday - you have everything on your screen.
The only aspect here we have not worked on is alarm. Some of us think that there is no need in alarm but no worries we will provide it in the first version of BeGo.
GUI - Graphical user interface
Making interface is the most important part at that point. It should be both beautiful looking and easy to use. We are trying to combine the most necessary information on the screen. We are always thinking about graphics. I am sure that there will be tons of options later. But right now we have stopped on easy design with status about connection, unread messages,missed calls,date,time, and battery life.
So hopefully you will like it at that point.
No comments:
Post a Comment