Flexible Sensitive Parts Event Data Transportation Recorder

Project goal: To design a device that records data from transportation events that could affect flightworthiness of sensitive parts.The sponsor needs a device to determine whether the parts it ships have been subjected to transportation events that exceed design or demonstrated limits, which could render them unflightworthy. The device needs to record and present evidence of any shipping events that exceedt he specified control limits set before shipping. The flexible event data recorder houses three internal sensors to monitor six degrees of freedom motion, triaxial acceleration, temperature and humidity. The flexibility of the device allows the user to record data from numerous sources, including external ports designed for three variable capacitance accelerometers, six strain gauges, and two type-T thermocouples. The data recorder continuously monitors all sensor channels for trigger conditions, which are set before shipment via a built-in USB interface with a custom Windows application. When a trigger event is detected, the recorder saves pre-trigger and post-trigger sensor data to separate files, which can be extracted after shipment through the same Windows application.