We have started a new 2 month development cycle! During the first days of the project we went through a planning phase and selected the following goals for this time period. We want to create a Minimum Viable Product that will provide a solution for ropeless fishing. 

Our Main objectives in the electronic design are:

• Reduce the cost: We already have developed a few prototypes and we are going to use the Bill of Materials of each one of those designs (Buoy B, Buoy A and Onboard Gateway) as a price reference for future designs. Our last designs cover most of the features that we want on our minimum viable product, therefore the focus is to maintain the features while reducing the cost. To achieve this goal we are going to replace the development modules that we used in previous designs with our own implementation of a circuit that contains the main component (ESP32, LoRa, GPS, RTC and power Supply).
• Include battery charging in the buoy.
• Measure the battery level in all the devices.
• Fix the identified problems from our previous designs.

We also have a few secondary goals that we are going to be exploring. They are not crucial to our minimum viable product, but they will add additional features and expand the scope of our ropless solution. Those objectives are:

• Include data logging (maybe including an SD card)
• Include a Camera