Designing an Ethernet Testing Device and Android Application

DIRECTV, Inc. Engineering, 2012-13

Liaison(s): Johnny Shum
Advisor(s): Ruye Wang
Students(s): Thomas Specte (EX-TL),Max Friefeld, Stephen Cefali, Sean Velazquez(S), Cierra Owens (S), Sami Mourad (F), Vyas Savanur (F)

The project consists in creating a handheld device capable of troubleshooting any router to assist DIRECTV technicians in installing products in the customer’s house. That device transmits the test results over Bluetooth to an Android phone running an application that the team will design. In addition, the team will evaluate whether a wireless device can be used to reliably approximate the wireless capabilities of another wireless device which has more antennas.