MIPS Project Detail:
Company
Company Description:
BSI designs, manufactures and installs industrial robotics, automation software, and smart sensors for the nuclear, industrial, pharmaceutical, and petroleum markets. One of the company’s primary products is the Eagle Array, an online, automated system used for monitoring corrosion/erosion on high-risk piping to help prevent pipeline failures. The multiple-sensor array is non-intrusive, easily installed and networked to a single Eagle Link gateway.
MIPS Project
Smart Sensor User Interface/Security Optimization
Project #
5219
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MIPS Round
52
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Starting Date:
Aug 2013
MIPS Project Challenge:
The goal of this MIPS project was to create intuitive and clear user software interfaces for the Eagle Array monitoring system.
Project Scope:
This MIPS project challenged student researchers to produce an optimal interface for the Eagle Array system, with attention to the visibility of the interface (system) status, real-world interface match, control and freedom of the user, platform conventions, flexibility and efficiency, aesthetics, effective error handling and error prevention. Also slated for consideration and development was optimal security design, including input validation, authentication, authorization, configuration management, securing sensitive data, cryptography, intrusion detection, auditing and logging.
Results:
This MIPS project resulted in an alternative architecture that provides additional administrative features to support the product’s scalability.
Principal Investigator:
George
Rinard
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Project Manager:
Eugene
Silverman
President
Technologies:
Software Development