College of Engineering

Tri Le

College of Computing & Informatics

Computer Science

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kapil Dandekar

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Logan Henderson

Co-Mentor

Radio Wars Augmented Reality

We are surrounded by waves: sound waves, light waves, radio waves, etc. Some of these waves e.g. light waves, are visible, while some are not. As a result, it can sometimes be difficult to learn more about wave properties, especially of those that cannot be seen or interacted with. There has been increasing demand in education technology for new ways to visualize unseen information.

This project aim to display radio waves, normally not visible to the human eye, using the latest Augmented Reality Kit framework on iOS. This will tremendously help those who want to learn more about radio waves, especially in the education field.

The current design of the project contains two parts. The first part is to collect data from the radios sending packets to each other and save the real-time data. The current data is being saved on a MongoDB database, contained in a Docker service. The second part is to visualize the data in an Augmented Reality environment on devices with iOS, with the use of Apple ARKit 2.0.